Araldite® Structural Adhesives

Absract--Report on two product lines for methacrylate adhesives. METHACRYLATES are high-strength, quick-curing, and durable bonds for metals, thermoplastics, and composites.

Agomet® Adhesives by Huntsman LLC., are surface-activated methacrylate adhesives, designed to increase customer bonding options. Agomet Adhesives allow fast cure and durable joining of metals, thermoplastics and composites.

The two-part Agomet adhesives are suitable electrical/electronics, transportation, marine, and general fabricating industries. Surface activation lets users apply the hardener/lacquer to substrates up to 30 days before applying the adhesive base. The methacrylates can also be hand or meter mixed.

The fast-curing F 300 has a 20,000-cps viscosity and a 3-min handling time. F305 is also fast curing, but features a 4,000-cps viscosity. F307, with a 400,000 cps is designed for meter/mix application. It has a 3 to 40-min work life and an 8 to 10-min handling time. F 310, a medium-viscosity system has a high lap-shear strength. F 311 is similar to F 310 but with higher viscosity and more lap-shear strength. F 315 is a no-mix, low-viscosity (2,500-cps) version that attains handling strength in 25 min but develops the highest shear strength (5,000 psi) after curing.

Huntsman Advanced Materials, 5121 San Fernando Rd. W, Los Angeles, CA 90039
(818) 247-6210

Structural Adhesives
Huntsman Advanced Materials, Everslaan 45, B-3078 Everberg. Belgium
Customer Services Fax: +41 61 96 61 589 Tel.: +41 61 96 61 599

Little or No Surface Preparation Plexus Adhesives are primerless, require no sanding or grinding and virtually no surface preparation.

ITW PLEXUS, manufacturers of PLEXUS Methacrylate Adhesives, reports that the methacrylate technology of today represents "a quantum leap over the past performance of the more traditional acrylic technology" and was developed to fill the shortcomings such as the brittleness, gap filling and less than reliable cures of the early acrylics

The PLEXUS structural methacrylate adhesives provide superior performance across a wide range of substrates including today's most advanced, difficult to bond plastics.

EASY TO MIX AND APPLY: Plexus two component adhesives are combined in a ratio of 1:1, allowing them to be mixed and dispensed using manual or less sophisticated non-metered dispensing equipment.

WIDE RANGE OF SUBSTRATES...Methacrylate adhesives is compatible with a wide range of substrates including: Stainless Steel, Epoxy Coated Surfaces, PVC, ABS, Aluminum,Styrenecs, Steel, Noryl, Azloy, Rynite, Valox, Lomod, RIM Urethane, SMC, Xenoy, Bexloy, Ceramics and Ferrites.

ITW Plexus® is a business unit of Illinois Tool Works.

ITW Plexus 30 Endicott Street, Danvers, MA 01923
Tel: 800.851.6692 Fax 978.774.0516
shennessey@itwplexus.com

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