Adhesives are not the most elaborate or stimulating element of packaging construction, but their role is essential to overall packaging success.

By Kate Sharon

“There has been a definite improvement in adhesives, specifically in the aqueous area,” said André DiMino, president and CEO, ADM Tronics. “This is due to a wider choice of raw material stocks over the past five years, which can now be incorporated into aqueous adhesive formulations. This has given us the ability to produce aqueous adhesives for applications which previously were only satisfied by hazardous solvent-based adhesives. Performance and application enhancements have expanded these newly available raw material choices.”