Trailer Wall & Ceiling Panel Adhesives
How Our Solutions Reduce Trailer Panel Weight
Our PLIOGRIP™ structural adhesives, ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ adhesives and SMP sealants can help reduce trailer wall and ceiling panel weight by offering benefits such as:
- Ability to eliminate fasteners: PLIOGRIP™, ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ trailer adhesives and SMP sealants can provide uniform adhesion across trailer panels, allowing you to reduce reliance on heavy fasteners and the thick substrates they can require. Instead, these solutions spread stress evenly, which can help eliminate failure likelihood that can occur with fasteners in addition to allowing for lighter weight, thinner substrate use comparatively.
- Increased strength with flexibility and vibration resistance: Our trailer panel adhesives offer high bond strength while maintaining flexibility needed to account for trailer wall and ceiling panel movement, expansion and contraction when in transit. Additionally, their ability to resist vibration helps reduce wear and fatigue overtime, extending trailer panel strength and longevity.
- Ability to bond to lightweight substrates: PLIOGRIP™ trailer adhesives and SMP trailer sealants are compatible with lightweight composites such as TPOs and thermosets as well as coated metals. Additionally, our ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ panel lamination adhesives bond to lightweight substrates such as EPS foam, plywood and fiberglass. As a result, you can more easily incorporate lightweight into your wall and ceiling trailer panels, helping to reduce overall weight while still maintaining strength.
How Our Solutions Improve Trailer Panel Durability
Our PLIOGRIP™ structural adhesives (two-part polyurethane, methyl methacrylate and epoxy) can help trailer panel’s ability to withstand wear and damage in ways such as:
- Strong bonds: PLIOGRIP™ adhesives’ formulation allows them to provide structural load bearing bond performance; this capability can cause them to be stronger than the substrates to which they’re bonding. In addition, PLIOGRIP™’s chemistry allows them to bond to substrates including composites, such as SMCs, TPOs and coated metals, and reduce damage likelihood, waste and energy usage associated with service work.
- Vibration and moisture penetration resistance: Because PLIOGRIP™ trailer adhesives create a uniform bond, they can minimize vibration between parts, reducing trailer panel wear and fatigue overtime and the likelihood that parts may loosen. Additionally, these structural adhesives can provide enhanced trailer panel moisture protection compared to mechanical fasteners, which can contribute to increased trailer wall and ceiling panel longevity.
- Temperature resistance: Our PLIOGRIP™ structural adhesives for wall and ceiling trailer panels can absorb stresses placed on substrates exposed to different temperatures. This allows them to work well for refrigeration trailer wall and ceiling panels, as the exterior and interior temperatures may vary.
Our SMP sealants can also improve wall and ceiling panel trailer durability, offering:
- UV resistance: In addition to aiding aesthetics, SMP’s UV resistance supports the trailer panel’s ability to maintain resiliency and mitigate joint fatigue, contributing to a long trailer lifespan.
- Elongation: Our trailer panel SMP sealants also good elongation properties; this aids in their ability to help absorb vibration and movement during transit and can extend trailer life.
- Weather resistance: Because SMP chemistry can allow these solutions to maintain performance when subjected to temperature fluctuations, moisture and other weather conditions, they can contribute to reduced trailer panel repair needs.
Further, our ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ adhesives for panel lamination are designed with capabilities such as:
- Moisture and heat resistance: These adhesives can minimize water intrusion and withstand high temperatures, which can serve to reduce delamination in outdoor conditions.
- Strong bonds: ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ are thermosetting solutions formulated to form strong bonds for laminating reinforced plastics to foam cores. Their bond strength also helps keep panel layers together even under heavy loads or vibration.
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How Our Solutions Improve Trailer Panel Aesthetics
Our PLIOGRIP™ structural adhesives, ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ adhesives and our SMP sealants can support modern, aesthetically-pleasing trailer wall and ceiling panel designs with capabilities such as:
- Ability to replace mechanical fasteners: Our trailer panel adhesives and sealants help eliminate reliance on mechanical fasteners by providing uniform, consistent bonds and seals throughout the panels. In addition to improving durability, replacing fasteners with PLIOGRIP™ and SMP helps achieve a cleaner, smoother and more seamless look comparatively.
- UV resistance: Our SMP sealants for trailer panels can maintain performance when exposed to UV for extended periods of time without yellowing, improving overall aesthetics.
- Ability to reduce distortion likelihood: Welding fasteners onto trailer panels can cause the panels to bend and become distorted. Our ISOSET™ and ISOGRIP™ trailer panel lamination adhesives offer an alternative, uniform way to join the trailer panels together. This allows you to reduce fastener usage and associated welding, which can keep the panels flat and aesthetically pleasing.
Featured Trailer Wall and Ceiling Panel Products
- 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 enhance application ease. Additionally, it offers excellent weathering and aging resistance and can cure quickly with minimal surface preparation required.
- 70-03: Designed for general sealing and bonding, this SMP trailer solution offers primerless adhesion, high green strength and excellent UV resistance.
- 70-08A: Suitable for windshield applications, this SMP product offers high green strength and high tack and can be applied without a primer.
- ISOGRIP™ SP 3030D: ISOGRIP™ 3030D is a single-component, polyurethane structural adhesive designed to be easy to dispense with a roll coater, extruder or spatter coating system. It contains no VOCs or formaldehyde, is non-flammable and moisture curing.
- ISOSET™ WD3-CM408 (with CX47): This two-component, water-based system contains no VOCs or formaldehyde; it consists of a base emulsion polymer and crosslinking agent to form a strong adhesive bond for trailer panel lamination.
The Benefits of Choosing Bostik
By choosing Bostik, the adhesive solutions segment of Arkema, you also receive:
- Access to a broad portfolio: In addition to trailer solutions, we offer adhesives and sealants for heavy and medium duty trucks and more. This portfolio can help streamline manufacturing complexities and supplier logistics, as it can get you to a solution quickly.
- Analytical expertise: To help customers evaluate their adhesives and processes, we conduct 3rd party substrate testing, aging studies as well as surface analysis, rheology and microscopy. Our experts also will validate adhesives with your substrates in our lab before bringing them to the field trial.
- On-site technical service expertise to support integrating our products into customers’ assembly processes and equipment. Our experts also can assist with any troubleshooting needs to help avoid issues in the future.
- Access to equipment for online and offline trial runs: We offer meter mix units, dispensing equipment and more to help facilitate evaluations on our customers’ behalf.
Our trailer adhesives and sealants are also available through a strong distribution network; consult a Bostik expert to learn more. In a world of evolving demands, let’s have a discovery call to find out how Bostik can help you!
PLIOGRIP, ISOSET and ISOGRIP are registered trademarks of the Arkema Group.
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