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Learn how you can take advantage of Bostik's total system approach to window manufacturing and installation to expand your product offerings to contractors. 

As a window and door OEM, you know it’s important for you to offer products that: 

  • Meet performance requirements by withstanding long-term exposure and weather elements
  • Streamline manufacturing and installation efforts by being easy to use and quick to install

However, this can be challenging to achieve across window applications when you use adhesives and sealants from different suppliers. For example, the products may not be compatible and can pose both manufacturing and installation complexities. With Bostik’s total system approach, that is not the case.

Learn more about Bostik’s total system approach to window manufacturing and installation and how it can benefit you.

The Value of Bostik’s Total System Approach to Window Manufacturing  

We offer adhesives and sealants for the following window manufacturing applications:

  • Seam sealing
  • Backbedding/glazing
  • Profile wrapping
  • Corner key structural and waterproofing
  • Cap stock sealing

How This Approach Helps You 

By choosing one supplier for all those applications, you can decrease supply chain complexities and: 

  • Help ensure product quality: Bostik’s total system approach helps you achieve the quality you need for your window applications, offering products that:
    • Are compatible across applications
    • Bond together efficiently in one application
    • Provide the necessary bond strength to your desired substrates
  • Optimize processes: Bostik’s total system approach also allows you to simplify your adhesive and sealant supply chain’s product lead time management, cash flow and inventory control as well as match product shelf life. In addition to a broad portfolio and technical expertise, we work with your production personnel to help select the right quality products optimized for existing manufacturing equipment and application needs.

Bostik’s Window Manufacturing Adhesive and Sealant Technologies At-A-Glance

Hot Melt Adhesives: 

Our hot melt adhesives provide excellent strength and can possess properties such as good creep resistance and high hot tack to help meet performance requirements. We test these solutions on your substrates and work with you to find a suitable product that works for the application method you require.

With fast setting times, these adhesives also allow you to streamline your assembly processes for:

  • Backbedding and glazing
  • Profile wrapping
  • Corner key structural and weatherproofing
Sealants:

Our sealant portfolio offers solutions with different performance properties so that you can properly seal window air gaps to protect against moisture and increase the building’s energy efficiencies. With options that include silyl modified polymer (SMP) and polyurethane (PUR), they help address general purpose needs such as non-sagging with flexibility to accommodate structural shifts over time and increase the window’s lifespan. These sealants also allow you to use just a couple solutions for numerous window parts to simplify processes for:

  • Seam sealing
  • Backbedding and glazing
  • Cap stock sealing
Other Adhesives:

Also, we offer methyl methacrylate adhesives (MMA), water-based and solvent-based technologies that can be tailored to your needs such as varied structural strength, adhesion or flexibility and your equipment capabilities.

The Value of a Total System Approach to Window Installation

We also provide installation products to be private labeled under your brand name. This allows you to help contractors complete successful installations with solutions that are designed specifically to work with your manufactured window products.

How This Approach Helps You 

In addition to offering compatibility, Bostik’s installation products, when used alongside our window manufacturing products, allow you to:

  • Expand overall product offerings: Adding an installation program complements your existing products and rounds out your portfolio offerings so contractors can rely on one provider for manufacturing and installation.

  • Streamline risk management: Improper installation or the use of inappropriate products can lead to a variety of field failures. Using a complete private label system from Bostik can help you reduce issues, because you know all adhesives and sealants used for both manufacturing and installation are compatible and can perform well with your system.

Bostik’s Private Label Window Installation and Sealant Technologies At-A-Glance

Bostik’s private label installation products include:

  • Flashing tape: We can customize your adhesive technology and facer so that finished installation product is compatible with the substrates and sizing of your finished window product. These solutions include hot melt PSAs and butyls and can be tailored to the needs of the environment you’re working in as well as help you avoid incompatibilities.
  • Liquid applied flashing: Our SMP liquid flashing is designed for trowelable and rollable application methods. Along with providing air leakage protection and vapor permeability to prolong durability within the building envelope, it can help your contractors simplify installation processes for complex geometries. It can also be applied to wet and damp substrates, helping contractors stay on schedule with fewer rain delays.
  • Sealants: Our installation sealants bond well to typical building substrates and have the needed flexibility to accommodate structural shifts. They also can help you seal the building envelope from water and air intrusion, helping the building’s longevity and efficiency. 

Other Ways Bostik’s Total System Approach Helps You

With Bostik as your reliable supplier for your window adhesives and sealants for a total system approach that benefits you and your contractors, you’ll have:

  • A full manufacturing product portfolio to help simplify your supply chain
  • Installation products to sell with your finished windows to the contractors 

Additionally, many of Bostik’s products have undergone industry-specific performance testing, highlighting their strengths in window and door applications. Bostik’s technical experts are available to work with you to find the best products for your situation, including conducting testing or offering trial support as needed.

Are you ready to take advantage of a total system approach by offering finished windows and installation products to contractors? Contact a Bostik expert to learn how we can serve as a single, reliable supplier for your product needs.

Other Relevant Content:

Why You Should Offer a Total System Approach for Building Envelopes

Why You Need SMP Liquid Flashing in Your Commercial Construction

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