Industrial Adhesives Selector Guide
Enables Easier Selection of Glass, Metal,
and Plastic Bonding Products

An improved industrial adhesives selector guide for glass, metal, and plastic bonding applications offers straightforward and usable suggestions for joint design, adhesive selection, and curing methodology.  The literature contains adhesive selector charts, substrate adhesion charts, types of applications suitable for use with DYMAX adhesives, types of products, an overview on light-curing systems, as well as helpful reference tables. This guide is particularly useful for design and manufacturing engineers in the electronics, industrial, appliance, automotive, aerospace, solar, fuel cell, and alternative energy fields.  Register to download this beneficial guide today!

LED-Curable Adhesive Facilitates High-Speed Medical Device Assembly

DYMAX Ultra-Red™ 1120-M-UR is an ultra fast, tack-free, LED-curable, plastic bonding medical device adhesive formulated for fast, on-demand cure with the new DYMAX BlueWave^® LED Prime UVA spot-curing lamp. This adhesive is designed for rapid bonding of a wide variety of plastics typically used in the manufacture of medical devices such as oxygenators, blood pumps, tube sets, port fittings, and drug delivery devices.  The fast cure and limited heat emitted by the BlueWave^® LED Prime UVA lamp provide an ideal system for heat-sensitive substrates, where thin walls may be subject to warping or stretching. Read more…

Read all About it! DYMAX is in the News!

DYMAX was recently featured in three popular trade publications, Appliance Design, Medical Design, and Assembly.

In the Appliance Design article, author Virginia P. Read, Market Segment Manager, DYMAX, points out that light-curable adhesive systems can enable numerous assembly process improvements in the areas of throughput, quality, durability, labor costs, and improved work safety. The article guides the reader through establishing the application requirements for the adhesive or sealant and identifying the ideal performance criteria, both of which provide the foundation for the selection process.

Kyle Rhodes, Medical Market Manager, DYMAX, addresses these same issues in his article in Medical Design, but with additional information geared toward the medical device industry, such as biocompatibility.

The Assembly article addresses the demands, challenges, and advancements made in the medical device industry in regards to medical tubing.

QUESTION of the QUARTER:

Q:  I see smoke coming off the light-curable  adhesive… what is it?

A: Before we can answer this question we have to first understand what it's not. By definition, it's not smoke or vapors or outgassing. What you really are seeing coming off of the curing adhesives are fumes generated by the light-curing process. This phenomenon is the result of a very rapid polymerization or chemical reaction that occurs when the liquid adhesive is exposed to the correct wavelength of light. Learn more…

New Blog Posts!

» FDA Approved Solvents
» Cyanoacrylates and Gamma Sterilization
» Gap-Filling Optical Adhesives/Epoxies
» Light/UV Curing Through Polymers
» Temporary High-Temperature Adhesives
» Can Uncured Monomers in the Adhesive Cause
the Adhesive to Weaken?
» Medical-Grade Adhesive for Bonding Multiple
Substrates
» Bonding Plastics in a Pure-Water Environment
» Mechanical Properties of UV Adhesives
» Adhesive/Sealant for Attaching RFID Tags
» What is the Smoke Coming off the Light-Curable
Adhesive?

UPCOMING EVENTS:

DYMAX and Tridak will be exhibiting at MD&M East at the Jacob Javits Center, New York, NY, June 8-10, booth 1354. Click here for additional information about the show and to register at no charge.

DYMAX Europe will be exhibiting at Medtec Europe March 23-25, Landesmesse Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, booth 563, and at Medtec France April 21-22, Micropolis Exhibition Center, Besancon, France, booth 209.

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