2 Feb 2004
Permanent bonding solutions offering cost and performance benefits for commercial signage
All exterior signs have common functions: identification, information and recognition of a company, product or service. From shops to banks and petrol stations, signage plays a crucial promotional role. However, that is very often where similarity ends and individuality of design becomes the dominant feature. It is this individuality that impacts the construction of signage.
19 Dec 2003
Faster, lower cost glass panel bonding solution for demountable partitions
Demountable partition systems provide companies with almost limitless possibilities for the design and redesign of their office layouts, enabling the best use of available space as they grow in size or reorganize their functional groupings.
16 Dec 2003
Core module bonding solutions that meet all Smart Card application needs
The development of smarter and greater data-rich modules has presented the smart card industry with a range of new challenges. Chief among them is the attachment of the micro modules to the broader span of plastic substrates now being exploited by the industry. Traditionally, electronically read cards have been produced in PVC but evolution of the technology, coupled with the demand for greater durability, ever higher levels of security and enhanced aesthetics capability, has resulted in the increasing use of high tech engineering plastics that are difficult to bond and which require more sophisticated adhesive solutions.
21 Nov 2003
Recently introduced 3M™ BUMPON™ Mini-Packs add greater convenience to high performance
The 3M™ Bumpon™ range of high quality pressure sensitive protective mouldings has for a long time been industry’s first choice for feet, spacers and stops for equipment and furniture. And, because of their continuing high level of success, 3M has introduced a new range of the product family, the Bumpon Mini-Pack, which gives users the same outstanding performance values but with a selection of sizes and colours in more convenient packaged quantities.
21 Nov 2003
Unique UV curable screen printable adhesive
Productivity and performance margins in the printing and die cutting of graphic overlays are very tight and the potential for waste is very high. Eliminating or minimizing the impact of these issues and enhancing cost efficiency were the drivers behind the development of 3M™ SP-7514 UV Screen Printable Adhesive.
30 Sept 2003
Ensuring the surface quality of electrical and electronic equipment
Because they fulfil both aesthetic and functional roles, scratched or marred fascias and screens of electronic equipment result in rejection at the quality inspection stage or, if damage occurs during transportation, they are rejected at the point of sale.
30 Sept 2003
Critical protection for aircraft
Aviation, whether for passenger transportation or rapid cargo shipment, is among the world’s most capital-intensive industries. Consequently for the aircraft operator maximising his investment is vital, not only for success but, in today’s tough markets, sometimes in order just to survive.
30 Sept 2003
Maintaining the pre-delivery surface quality of wooden furniture
During the assembly process, showroom display and transportation, and final delivery of units, the surfaces of wooden furniture are at constant risk of abrasion and scratching. Ultimately every buyer wants a perfect, blemish-free product and therefore it makes good commercial sense for manufacturers and retailers to ensure that the buyers’ wishes are fulfilled.
30 Sept 2003
Protecting surfaces during production and outfitting of sailing craft
Few working environments provide the range of aggressive contaminants in combination with aesthetic surfaces, fabrics and delicate electronic equipment, as does the marine industry. From hull building and subsequent outfitting, through maintenance to out-of-water storage, almost every job undertaken will expose sensitive surfaces to the risks of damage from dust, dirt, abrasion and scratches or UV degradation.
25 Sept 2003
Keeping up appearances with a perfect façade
Over the past two decades architects have increasingly created structural designs, particularly for commercial offices and public buildings, which incorporate cladded exterior surfaces. The aim is to achieve a high level of aesthetic appeal and, generally, those that succeed in this objective share one thing in common. They have perfect surfaces. These façades are free from the spoiling affects of rivets, brackets, screws, weld marks and other unsightly mechanical fixings often used to secure two surfaces together.
1 Sept 2003
Novel quadro nozzle for two-part adhesive applicator
In driving efficiency to benefit the end user, 3M is introducing a new quadro mixing nozzle for its EPX™ adhesive dispenser system to make the application process easier and to improve material usage.
1 Sept 2003
New two-component adhesive revolutionises structural bonding of plastics
The difficulties associated with materials exhibiting low surface energy such as polyethylene and polypropylene, are now to become a thing of the past with the launch of a new two-part adhesive from 3M that delivers a high strength structural bond on such plastics. This development has been customer-driven and comes as a direct result of designing to satisfy customer-identified criteria that allow greater production efficiency together with time and cost reductions.
