Adhesives and Its uses

March 27, 2018 11:10 am Published by

Chemically speaking, adhesives are chemical compounds that allow two completely different materials to stick firmly together as if they were one uniform material. Plant-based resins were the earliest adhesives known as synthetic ones were discovered in laboratories. Since then, there has been a large scale manufacturing of adhesives of all kinds for various purposes. Apart from being an important industrial ingredient when it comes to constructing durable infrastructure from different substrates, adhesives are also used in many aspects of daily life. From the bigger scale, a useful application like connecting two pipes, to the simplest applications like sticking an envelope, adhesives are everywhere. Here are some particular uses of adhesives:

  • Construction: Adhesives are used in the construction of residential as well as commercial infrastructure where planks of wood or other material need to be glued together to make for a stronger overall structure. There are various kinds of adhesives available in the market depending on their strength and area of application. Some adhesives are better when applied on wood, while others are better for bonding glass together with another material. Apart from that, it also has used in heavy industries such as an automobile where the interior parts of automobiles need to be bonded together to the chassis of the vehicle.
  • Manufacturing: Adhesives are widely used in manufacturing as industrial bonding components. The automobile industry has seen a big change in its use of adhesives in recent years, taking a cue from the aircraft manufacturing industry for glueing components of the vehicles especially in the construction of vehicles where bonding is required to be highly durable and long-lasting. Glasses used in the windows of cars, buses, planes and other kinds of vehicles are bonded with the help of adhesives.
  • Repairing: Besides the applications in construction and manufacturing processes, adhesives have also grown to become indispensable parts of repair kits. They can be used to repair almost any kind of damage which would cause a structure to break and needs to be joined back. From simple applications like bonding the sole of a shoe to stronger ones like fixing cracks in materials, they have a wide range of applications.

There are many companies that manufacture adhesives, one of the most prominent manufacturers is Foster and Bin Dasmal General Trading is an authorized foster adhesive supplier in UAE which provides all kinds of adhesive specific to your needs.

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