Mass Transit Sealants and Adhesives
How Our Mass Transit Sealants Help Address Your Goals
Our SMP and polyurethane mass transit sealants offer benefits such as:
- Strength with flexibility: Our mass transit sealants are designed to form strong seals that yield high elongation; this helps them withstand prolonged exposure to the elements as well as movement without cracking. Additionally, this capability can serve to reduce noise, vibration and harshness to help improve mass transit durability and passenger comfort.
- Ability to reduce weight: Certain products offer low density formulation, which can help reduce vehicle weight overall. Contact your Bostik expert for availability and additional information.
- Isocyanate-free formulations: They are formulated without isocyanates, they can minimize worker chemical exposure and improve safety during production.
- Streamlined production: These products also can be applied without a primer, which can reduce production steps, assembly time, error potential as well as associated costs and waste.
- Easy repair facilitation: Compared to silicones, our sealants offer a better rework process; for example, you can remove them after bonding with reduced risk of damage to the bonded components and associated waste.
How Our Mass Transit Structural Adhesives Help Address Your Goals
Our PLIOGRIP™ (including two-part polyurethane, methyl methacrylate and epoxy) structural adhesives for mass transit vehicles are designed for exterior applications and can offer:
- 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 help reduce fastener use and associated weak spots, which further contribute to a more durable vehicle.
- Flame retardancy: Certain structural adhesive SKUs have flame retardancy directly in their formulation, which helps to reduce the spread of flames and increase occupant safety. These solutions pass NFPA 130 requirements.
- Minimal surface preparation requirements: Our mass transit structural adhesives can achieve high strength with minimal surface preparation needed first, which helps streamline processes.
- Varied curing times: Our mass transit adhesives offer a range of cure times to help address different production needs depending on the application.
Ready to get started with our structural adhesives for mass transit exterior applications?
Why Choose Bostik
As the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, Bostik offers more than quality mass transit sealants and adhesives for bus, coach and rail car applications. We also provide:
- Access to a strong distribution network: Our transportation adhesives and sealants are available for purchase through quality distributors to help increase access and availability ease. View our distributor list here.
- Broad portfolio: In addition to sealants and adhesives for mass transit manufacturing applications, we offer MRO solutions, such as NEVER-SEEZ® anti-seize and lubricating compounds, to help your equipment operations.
- Global expertise: We serve the mass transit markets in Europe and Asia as well as the Americas; this allows us to leverage our expertise across regions to formulate and test solutions that meet varied needs.
- 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.
In a world of evolving needs, let’s have a discovery call to explore how we can help you!
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