Structural Component Adhesives
Increase Marine Structural Component Durability
Our adhesives can provide:
- High strength: With strong bonds to substrates including metals, coated metals and thermoplastics, our structural adhesives help increase durability throughout the vehicle lifespan; additionally, their broad bond capabilities reduce fastener use and associated weak spots, which further contributes to a more durable marine vessel.
- Impact resistance: These structural adhesives for marine applications also offer a certain level of flexibility in addition to their strength. This allows them to absorb stress from impacts without breaking.
- Environmental resistance: Because our structural marine adhesives cure in an irreversible process, it helps them maintain performance even when exposed to temperature extremes or moisture for extended periods of time.
Decrease Marine Structural Component Weight
Our structural adhesives can also help reduce marine structural component weight, offering:
- Ability to eliminate mechanical fasteners: Forming an even, uniform bond across broad surface areas, these adhesives help mitigate weak spots compared to fastener use. This can help increase structural component strength while reducing its weight.
- Compatibility with lightweight substrates: Our structural adhesives can form strong bonds to lightweight substrates such as composites. By distributing stress evenly across the entire bonded area, this adhesion allows you to easily incorporate the thin substrates into your marine structural component designs and reduce weight.
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Meet Production Goals
Our structural marine component adhesives also can help your production processes by providing benefits such as:
- Non-sag capabilities: Formulated with high thixotropy, our structural adhesives are designed to maintain adhesion without sagging on vertical surfaces. This helps reduce potential for waste and rework while also helping our adhesives be easy to apply.
- Easy to dispense: Because of their optimized viscosity levels, our marine structural adhesives can be easily dispensed from proper equipment; this can help minimize wear and tear on machines overtime as well as aid in streamlined production processes.
- Range of open times: Our portfolio includes products with varied open times, such as from 1 to 105 minutes; this helps ensure you can find a product that meets your specific production needs.
Featured Marine Structural Component Products
Our featured marine products for structural components include:
- PLIOGRIP™ 1010C: This methyl methacrylate structural adhesive can provide non-sagging capabilities on vertical surfaces, such as bare metals, brass, stainless steel and composites, to help enhance application ease. Additionally, it offers excellent weathering and aging resistance and can cure quickly with minimal surface preparation required.
- PLIOGRIP™ 7700 Series: This two-part polyurethane structural marine adhesive works well when high elongation and cyclic fatigue are needed.
- SAF 80-120: This methyl methacrylate structural adhesive offers properties including high thixotropy for large bead application on vertical surfaces and excellent adhesion to composites. It also allows for sufficient application time before curing, given its long open time.
- SAF Ultimate M25: Designed to bond to a range of dissimilar substrates, including metals and composites, this product requires minimal surface preparation and is available in varied open and curing times to meet your specific application requirements.
The Benefits of Choosing Bostik
In addition to our quality marine adhesives and sealants, we provide:
- Access to a strong distribution network: Our marine adhesives and sealants are available for purchase through quality distributors to help increase access and availability ease. View our distributor list here.
- Local manufacturing: Our products are produced in United States, allowing you to get the products you want when and where you need them.[OM1]
- Dual SMP gun systems: When our SMP solutions are used with our dual SMP guns, you can reduce the amount of time needed to build handling strength while maintaining the product’s open time.
- Extensive technical support: Our experts work with customers directly to help with testing, production optimization and more. We also have internal development labs and can trial products on our in-house equipment to minimize disruption to customer facilities.
- Onsite support: Our experts also routinely visit customers to assess needs and provide recommendations on how to optimize production.
- On-going development: Additionally, we are active in industry conferences, which helps us stay apprised of key trends impacting our customers; we use this knowledge to develop products that can address the trends and help achieve goals.
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