Engineered Wood and Mass Timber Adhesives
How Your Engineered Wood and Mass Timber Adhesives Can Offer Sustainability Advantages
Our Bostik experts understand it’s important for your CLT, glulam, I-joist, LVL and finger joint applications to meet high output demands without incurring high energy costs, as that can impact overall sustainability levels. To do this, consider a face laminating or finger joint adhesive that can offer capabilities such as:
- Ambient curing with no post-cure heating needed
- Fast cure speeds
- Optimized working and cure time ratios
Learn more about our engineered wood and mass timber adhesives’ sustainability advantages!
How Your Engineered Wood Adhesives and Mass Timber Adhesives Can Offer Performance Advantages
While engineered wood I-joist, LVL and finger joint as well as mass timber CLT and glulam products are designed to meet high performance levels, your chosen adhesives can help extend your application's durability and longevity when they offer attributes such as:
- Resistance to environmental elements, including temperature and moisture changes
- Ability to bond substrates to imperfect surfaces
- Excellent wet out and crosslinking capabilities
Learn more about our engineered wood adhesives and mass timber adhesives performance advantages!
Bostik Understands Your Application’s Adhesive Needs
Engineered wood and mass timber applications are closely connected; however, our experts understand their distinctions within the North American construction industry and how those differences can influence your adhesive needs. You may be focused on:
- Code requirements: Structural wood applications can have varied code requirements based on building specifics; our adhesives for engineered wood and mass timber are formulated to meet both specific and broad code requirements for your I-joist, LVL, finger joint, CLT and glulam applications.
- Processing needs: Our Bostik experts also understand that it’s important for you to easily meet processing time needs, which can vary across applications. Therefore, our adhesives’ formulations allow for optimized productivity, so that you can meet your application’s desired assembly time needs while keeping associated cure time to a minimum.
Bostik’s engineered wood adhesives and mass timber adhesives for structural wood applications are manufactured within North America to help streamline logistics, getting you products you want when and where you need them. Additionally, we offer dedicated technical service expertise, working with customers to provide support including:
- Technology recommendations
- New substrate evaluations
- Production line efficiency improvements
- Adhesive-related equipment adjustments
By working closely together, our experts are also able to assess your appropriate assembly timeframe to help ensure your chosen adhesive for engineered wood or mass timber offers an optimized ratio between working time and cure time.
In a world of evolving needs, let’s have a discovery call to talk about what Bostik can do for you.
