Adhesives - Permabond Has You Covered
Permabond is a leading manufacturer of engineering adhesives, supplying high-quality industrial adhesives to customers all across the world. Permabond has offices in North & South America, Europe and Asia with a worldwide network of distributors, including MTE, to assist you with your bonding and sealing needs.
The Beginnings:
Permabond’s beginnings started in the UK, early in the 1960s. For years, manufacturers had no choice but to rely on mechanical means of locking nuts and bolts. The high rate of failure due to equipment vibrations required a more reliable means of locking fasteners on equipment and finished goods.
Chemists at Borden Chemicals (UK) seized this opportunity to develop a special anaerobic adhesive sealant that cured to a solid plastic when used between metal surfaces in the absence of oxygen. Avdel Ltd spotted this growth and quickly moved to purchase this business from Borden Chemical. Avdel created a number of anaerobic products to seal threaded pipes and fittings, retain bearings and press-fit parts, and form-in-place gaskets.
At the same time, in Florida, three men in the jewelry distribution business ‘accidentally’ discovered cyanoacrylate adhesive and its ability to bond pearls into jewelry. They formed a company (Pearl Chemical), sold cyanoacrylate adhesive for this purpose.
National Starch & Chemical had been looking to enter the adhesives market to compete against Loctite. So it seized the opportunity to purchase the Pearl Chemical cyanoacrylate business, plus also the anaerobic adhesive business, Avdel.
Permabond’s development chemists were rapidly making a number of breakthrough products in cyanoacrylate chemistry with ultra-high-speed, metal bonding, and low-odor grades. This same era saw the introduction of the first toughened cyanoacrylate, Permabond 737
‘Permabond’ was the name chosen in 1978 for the consolidated groups of anaerobic and cyanoacrylate adhesives business in the US and UK. With the additional cyanoacrylate technology purchased from Eastman (US), Permabond made inroads into the jewelry and machinery maintenance industries and into the automotive, electrical, medical, and aerospace markets.
The Future: Permabond continues to invest in technology as well as the environment. Patents for new unique products have been obtained, and several are pending. Industry drivers for this new technology include requests for higher heat resistance, lightweight expandable battery fillers, and bonding low surface energy plastics. Permabond is also highly committed to the environment and is switching 850,000 kWh from standard to photovoltaic power with the aim of reducing its CO2 emissions.
Permabond adhesives continues to be a leader in the industry and has a large variety of uses including Adhesive for Lighting, Adhesives for Composites – All Industry, Adhesives for Heat Exchangers, Adhesives for Metal Fabrication, Electric Motors Adhesive, Electronics Adhesive, Filter Bonding Adhesives, Medical Device Adhesive, OEM and Other.
Be sure to visit our Permabond products for all your adhesive needs.
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