Adhesives

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LORD Accelerators Are Important Partners for Many Industrial Adhesives

Many industrial adhesives will note that they should be used in tandem with a particular accelerator. When bonding acrylic adhesives accelerators speed up the curing process. Whether applying them separately or in a mix ratio, the material creates a strong bond between substrates such as, metals, plastics, glass and some dissimilar substrates. The bond is Read more…

Don’t Have a Gripe, Get a Grip: TrimGrip

What qualities would you consider to be must-haves with any effective bonding system? Well, for starters, the structural adhesive would be designed to fill nail holes, laminate boards, bond seams, would be 100 percent reactive and hold a tough and resilient acrylic makeup. Then  you’d have to consider the materials with which it would work Read more…

C30 Velvet

Color Selection Guide for Adhesive Natural Stone Countertop Installations

Your customers are making a significant investment in beautiful solid surface materials for countertops and vanities – the necessary finishing touch for a top-quality installation is a color-matched adhesive that can appear nearly seamless. For your reference, our sales team has put together a simple guide for natural stone color matches with our popular C-30 Read more…

Comparing One-Component and Two-Component Adhesives

If your business incorporates manufacturing processes that benefit from adhesive usage, you may face the question: is it better to use a one-component adhesive or a two-component adhesive? In other words, will it just be one liquid, or will there be two that are mixed together in some fashion? Many adhesive users assume that one-component Read more…

LORD 202 Acrylic Adhesive

LORD 202 Acrylic Adhesive – A Great Choice to Repair Marine Boat Enclosures

If you’re searching for adhesives to keep on hand in your tool kit to repair marine boat enclosures, we’ve made several recommendations in our downloadable marine product brochure. Let’s take a moment to highlight the LORD 202 Acrylic Adhesive, one of our most popular choices for this need. Customers especially love how environmentally resistant this Read more…

glue gun and hot melts

Five Tips for Applying Hot Melt Adhesives

Five Tips for Applying Hot Melt Adhesives Hot melt adhesives have long been a customer favorite…for good reason. A few of the primary assets that these versatile adhesives offer are: Ability to bond impervious surfaces. Gap-filling capabilities. Easy to store. Environmentally friendly. For optimum usage of hot melt adhesives, here are five top tips to Read more…

How to Build Reverse Channel Letters Without Welding

The short version. You don’t have to weld reverse channel letters. Tack the return to the face with Surebonder 925 acrylic hot melt, then run LORD Signlok 406 structural acrylic along the inside seam. The hot melt holds the letter in position. The Signlok 406 bonds and seals it. No sparks, no grinding, no heat Read more…