Intercol hotmelts are available in a wide range and from stock. From fast setting, long open time, for deep freeze applications, heat resistant packaging, or difficutlt to bond, plastic substrates.
Intercol Hot-melt-adhesives are well known in mainly Europe.
For starting up, research and repair purposes Intercol supplies a number of hand glue guns for, the standard 11mm and 43 glue sticks and known as applicators forshaped hot melt adhesive. Most guns are good for heavy industrial, manual use, as well.
Raw materials for hot melt adhesive include PUR, Polyolefine, EVA, resins, wax or paraffin and anti-oxidants.
Advantages of hotmelt adhesives:
- Easy to work with, easy to implement in assembly lines
- Creates a quick adhesion on almost all materials and substrates (except, of course, non-glueable materials such as silicone and Teflon)
- Hot melt adhesives require accurate special processing equipment, with precisely adjustable application temperatures. Those assembly and packaging applications offer very fast adhesion, shorter setting time, virtually no drying time
- Hot melt Adhesives are good moisture resistant
- Can bond smooth, dense, non-porous materials
- Extremely good to applicate, both in quantity and position, especially when it is processed in a semi automatic process with a timer / sensor controller.
- Very compact device construction, flexible to fit into existing machinery, because of the fast “solidification time” hotmelts have a very short pressing time.
- With hotmelts higher machine speeds can be realized than eg with self-adhesive tape, nails, screws, welding or cold glue.
- Reduction of costs due to, for example, less tape and adhesive consumption
- Most hot melt adhesives have an unlimited shelf life
- Better to recycle paper waste as with self adhesive tapes, where the film is of onsolluable plastic.
Hotmelt is available in pears, drums, blocks and granulate.
Important concepts that are discussed in our annual hot melt course.
- Hot tack: this is the hot, melted, adhesive power of hot melt.
- Open time: The time that is available from hot melt between the application of the adhesive and the bringing together of the substrates.
Applications with hotmelt
- Packaging such as food (BRC), frozen food, SRP and parcel delivery.
- paper-processing industry
- segregation of outer boxes
- Furniture making and upholstery (car upholstery, assembly and assembly work)