RV Exterior Components
How Our Solutions Help RV Exterior Components
Our recreational vehicle sealants and structural adhesives can help your exterior component manufacturing processes, offering attributes such as:
- Fast curing: Our structural adhesives for RV exterior applications can quickly achieve handling strength; this can help you keep production lines moving.
- Reduced fastener usage: You can use our sealants and adhesives in certain areas instead of fasteners; compared to bolts or rivets, they offer faster application processes as well as a uniform bond and clean aesthetic.
- Primerless application: Many of our SMP and polyurethane sealants can be applied without a primer. This can help reduce RV SKU volume, production time, potential for downtime as well as associated energy usage and costs.
Additionally, they can help achieve performance and safety goals with:
- Reduced weak spot potential: Compared to fasteners, our RV sealants and adhesives offer uniform coverage with minimized weak spots to help maintain material integrity.
- Flame retardancy: Some of recreational vehicle solutions for exterior components are formulated with
- flame retardancy to help slow down the spread of flames in an emergency.
- Lightweighting capabilities: In addition to being lighter weight than fasteners, our sealants and adhesives can help you use lightweight materials such as composites; this helps increase fuel efficiency performance.
- UV, temperature and moisture resistance: Our RV sealing and bonding solutions are formulated to maintain intended performance even after environmental exposure to elements such as the sun and rain.
Our RV Component Featured Products
Our RV exterior body components include:
PLIOGRIP™
- 1010C: This acrylic structural adhesive offers bare metal bonding capabilities and is formulated with flame retardancy.
- 7000 series: These two-part polyurethan adhesives are formulated with high strength and flexibility.
SMP
- 70-08A: This SMP is designed for window glazing, offering high green strength and high tack to aid in processes where parts must be moved immediately or shortly after installation.
- 70-03A and 70-03A FR: Solvent, isocyanate and PVC free, these products offer primerless adhesion and permanent elasticity within a broad temperature range. They also are neutral and odorless. 70-03A FR also provides flame retardant capabilities.
- 70-01A: 70-01A is formulated with zero solvents, isocyanates and PVC. It offers good UV and aging resistance and can be applied without the use of a primer. Like 70-03A, it is compatible with many paint systems, is neutral and odorless. It is permanently elastic within a broad temperature range.
The Benefits of Choosing Bostik
By choosing Bostik, the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, you receive:
- Local manufacturing capabilities: Most of our products and their raw materials are produced directly in the U.S.; this can help increase your product access and reduce lead time.
- Access to a strong distribution network: Our RV adhesives and sealants are available for purchase through quality distributors. View our distributor list here.
- Broad portfolio: In addition to recreational vehicle bonding and sealing products, we offer MRO solutions, such as NEVER-SEEZ® anti-seize and lubricating compounds, to help your equipment operations.
- Extensive technical support: Our Bostik experts work closely with you, providing in-house testing and on-site support; this can help you quickly obtain the right solution for your needs with minimal disruption to your operations.
- On-going development: Additionally, we prioritize staying apprised of key RV trends impacting our customers; this can help us develop products designed to address the trends.
In a world of increasing demands, let’s have a discovery call to find out how Bostik can help you!
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