Learn how Bostik’s pressure sensitive adhesives (PSAs) help manufacturers innovate, meet sustainability goals and accelerate speed to market with a robust portfolio of hot melt, waterborne acrylic, UV acrylic, and specialty solution pressure sensitive adhesives.
When manufacturing end-use tapes, labels, graphics and specialty films you may want to:
- Provide innovative solutions
- Meet sustainability goals
- Increase speed to market
Choosing an adhesive supplier that prioritizes these items as well can help you accomplish them.
Find out how Bostik, the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, and our robust pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) portfolio of hot melts, waterborne acrylics, UV acrylics and specialty solution acrylics help you innovate, meet sustainability goals and increase speed to market.
How We Help You Innovate
We understand you likely want your end-use products to be innovative – to stand out from competitors and meet or exceed your customers’ goals.
Our PSAs help you innovate by providing differentiated performance capabilities so you can improve your current product portfolio performance. For example, our:
- Hot melt PSAs offer excellent tack and peel capabilities and ability to adjust tack levels to meet different application performance requirements
- Waterborne acrylic PSAs provide mechanical stability and cohesive strength to improve bond performance along with clean removability to enhance application aesthetics
- UV acrylic PSAs are comprised of 100% solids yet formulated with strength comparable to a solvent-based adhesive for applications that require strong durability even under environmental conditions
- Specialty solution acrylic PSAs have high strength across substrates as well as attributes such as excellent environmental resistance to extend product longevity
Further, our experts can help you innovate by using our PSAs to explore new applications or market opportunities. We work with you closely to develop a clear understanding of how you’d like to grow and then assess how our solutions can help you get there.
Additionally, we are the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, a leader in specialty materials.
As a result, we can help you with insight into other materials needed in your manufacturing to further help your product possibilities.
How We Help You Meet Sustainability Goals
We also understand that you may be looking to address certain sustainability goals.
Our hot melt, waterborne acrylic, UV acrylic and specialty solution acrylic PSAs help you do that by offering:
More sustainable formulations:
- Our hot melt and UV acrylic PSAs are solvent-free and 100% solids, which can decrease carbon emissions, energy usage and more. Those solvent-free technologies allow you to run faster processes and increase your coating capacity.
- Our waterborne acrylic PSAs are solvent-free, helping to improve your carbon footprint and worker safety.
- Our specialty solution PSAs can be formulated with high solids content and are Toluene, VAM and hexane free to help reduce impact.
Improved end-of-life impact:
- Our Flexcryl™ ClearCycle waterborne acrylic PSAs follow APR Design® Guidance and can be used in all-temperature, wash-off label applications for clean removal from PET containers in recycling streams and improved circularity.
- Our hot melt PSAs can incorporate bio-based or mass balance raw materials to enhance their end-of-life breakdown.
Reduced waste:
- Our waterborne acrylic and hot melt PSAs are used in linerless label applications, allowing you to eliminate the liner to reduce overall materials and increase labels per roll compared to traditional labels.
- Our specialty solution acrylic PSAs provide water, chemical, moisture and UV resistance to help extend product longevity.
In addition to our PSAs helping you meet sustainability goals, our Bostik experts:
Are part of the Association of Plastic Recyclers in the U.S. and RecyClass in Europe: This organization is focused on improving plastic recycling. By being part of this association, our experts are directly informed about the evolving landscape, including the latest plastic recycling compliance requirements. We use this insight to help customers understand what they need to do to reduce impact; our involvement also allows us to tailor our adhesive formulations to these requirements.
Conduct evaluations such as Life Cycle Analyses (LCAs): To help understand the impact of your chosen PSA and environmental footprint, we can work with you to provide a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA). This entails mapping the full carbon footprint of your adhesive from raw materials to end-use product, identifying emissions hot spots and creating a roadmap for reduction in your facility. With this data-driven insight, you can make informed decisions to help reduce your environmental impact and meet sustainability goals; this may include helping you optimize production steps or identify the most suitable PSA technology for your application.
How We Help You Increase Speed To Market
We understand that you want to bring your products to market as quickly as possible. Our PSAs can do that by offering:
A broad portfolio: With our PSA portfolio including hot melt, waterborne acrylic, UV acrylic and specialty solution acrylic solutions, we help make it easy to choose the right solution for your application needs in one place. This can save you time in the decision-making process while also providing assurance you’re choosing the right option.
Certified solutions: We work to achieve key certifications with our PSA products to help you feel assured you are meeting industry standards. This includes our waterborne acrylic PSA that received APR recognition as, all-temperature, wash-off adhesive for PET bottles and trays. Because our experts prioritize obtaining these certifications, you can know that our solution provides clean removal to help increase plastic circular recycling.
Additionally, our experts help you increase your speed to market by:
Collaborating with companies throughout the value chain: Working with us helps you collaborate with recyclers, equipment manufacturers, film producers and more. By aligning efforts across the entire value chain, these partners can collectively address challenges such as material recovery, product design for recyclability and the development of advanced recycling technologies. This collaboration also improves shared learning, overall best practices and contributes to a circular economy.
Addressing different parts of your product construction that require adhesives: Our PSAs can be used alongside Bostik’s PURERAD™ laminating adhesives for narrow web label applications, helping reduce logistical complexities and making it easy to get the adhesives and coatings you want from one supplier.
Want to learn how our PSA solutions and experts can help you innovate, meet sustainability goals and increase speed to market? Contact a Bostik expert!
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