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ADHESIVES FOR BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS ADHESIVES FOR BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS

Cattie Adhesive Solutions offers a Complete line of high quality Hot Melts, Low Temperature Hot Melts and Water-Based Adhesives for BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS applications.

 

For more information or to Request Samples, Please call one of our Adhesive Specialists at 1-800-249-0337


 

Cattie Adhesive Solutions supplies Hot Melts & Water-Based Adhesives for BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS in several forms for many types of adhesive applications.

Our Adhesives can be made Clear, "Water-White" , Odorless and are formulated to provide excellent adhesion to all types of paper and cardboard including some of the most difficult to bond including, Foils, Films and UV coated paper.

Hot melt adhesives and water-based adhesives are commonly used for bookbinding and graphic arts. Some common uses include edition binding, library binding, soft-cover binding, one-shot, two-shot, and cover binding. For the highest quality durable bookbinding the use of curable PUR hot melts is recommended.

Our adhesives are formulated to meet specific application requirements for color, bond strength, heat resistance, or other performance standards. Our products are used extensively across many industries and for many adhesive applications.


 

A more Recent development is the use of Low Temperature Hot Melts which are applied at 250°F instead of 350°F. In general, Low Temperature Hot Melts provide the same Bonding performance for most Bookbinding Applications. They are:

  • Safer to use
  • Easier to clean up
  • Lower operating costs
  • Cleaner machining

The Total Cost of Hot Melt Dispensing Equipment Maintenance and Replacement Parts are reduced and downtime is dramatically decreased providing for greater production efficiencies.


 

Some Key technical requirements for Bookbinding hot melt applications are:

  • Precise viscosity control for exact adhesive coatings
  • Open and setting time
  • Aging stability for improved clean machining
  • Lower application temperatures
  • Faster cooling for improved trimming
  • Fast page-pull strength development
  • Recyclability

In bookbinding Open Time and Setting Time are Critical to ensure a High Quality book comes off the manufacturing line. Tackifier resins are critical raw materials to influence these properties. The right choice of tackifier resins is crucial for formulating hot melts to meet specific open time and setting time requirements.

Our choice of the best tackifier resins, help make our hot melts and water-based adhesives the best choice in the industry for your BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS adhesive applications.


 

Our BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS adhesive Product Line and Application Experience includes:

Hot Melts

Pressure Sensitive Hot Melts

Fugitive/Removeable Hot Melts for Speciality Paper

Latex-based Fugitive Liquid adhesives for Speciality Paper stocks

 Spine Glue

Labeling and Envelopes

Water-Based Adhesives

One-Shot Perfect Binding Applications including-Spine gluing, Side Seam Gluing, Labeling, Insert Tipping

Side Seam Glue

Labels and Decals

Side seams and Bottom pastes

Two-Shot Perfect Binding Applications including- Covers, Backlining, Casing-In, Casemaking, Hinge Gluing

Remoistenable Adhesive Products

PSA's for Insert Tipping

PSA's for tape, tag and labels

 

Padding Hot Melts and Liquid Padding Adhesives
Business Forms Adhesives

 

One-Shot Perfect Binding-One-Shot Perfect binding is used to describe the making of books, manuals, magazines, and directories using One-Shot of adhesive to the spine. This is done at a high production speed and requires strong, fast setting bonds to a wide variety of paper substrate types and cover stocks.

Two-Shot Bookbinding-Two-Shot bookbinding is used to describe two-shot soft cover and hard cover manufacturing of books.


Our BOOKBINDING & GRAPHIC ARTS Hot Melt Adhesives Offer the following benefits:

  • Aggressive Bonds - Bonds to a wide range of difficult to Bond, Low energy substrates.
  • Reduced Char - No clogged lines or nozzles and no adhesive buildup in the tank, reduced maintenance costs.
  • Low/No Odor - No smoke, offers a more operator-friendly work environment.
  • No Stringing / Tailing - Reduces downtime. No Angel Hairs or adhesive build-up. Reduces unscheduled maintenance.
  • Increased Mileage - Lowers adhesive usage and costs, depending on application.
  • Reduced viscosity gain - Adhesive runs consistently clean, allowing for precise control of bead size and bead placement.
  • Light in color - Improves package appearance.
  • Clean Machining - High performance. Reduce equipment maintenance and unscheduled downtime.

 

Bookbinding and Graphic Arts Hot Melts:

Below are just a few of our most commonly used Bookbinding and Graphic Arts hot melts. 
We offer hot melts for all substrate types and applications.

For more info, please call one of our Adhesive Specialists at  1-800-249-0337

Part #

Applications \  Substrates

 

 Set Speed

 

 Application Temp

 

 Viscosity at 350°F

 

 Form

W251 

 

White, Pigmented Hot Melt for hard to Bond substrates, Clay coated, Varnished and end grain stocks.

 

Medium,Fast

 

325-375°F

 

1200 cps

 

Chips

W253  

 

Clear, colorless Hot Melt. Bonds to a wide variety of difficult surfaces. Flexible at room temperature. Use as a "Burst-Binding Hot Melt" and a prime coat in a "two shot system".

 

Fast

 

325-375°F

 

1000 cps

 

Chips

W255

 

Fast setting, general purpose hot melt for High Speed, High Volume binding. Clean machining with three knife trimmer.

 

Fast

 

325-375°F

 

900 cps

 

Chips

W257

 

Low Temperature Hot Melt, Fast Setting, General purpose Hot Melt that runs at 250°F - 300°F, Set time 4-6 seconds. Bonds to a wide range of substrates.

 

Fast

 

250-300°F

 

750 cps

 

Chips

W260

Side Seam Hot Melt, Clear, colorless Hot Melt, Medium Open/Set Time, Bonds to a wide variety of cover stocks. Non-pressure sensitive.

Medium/Fast

325-375°F

 1500 cps

Chips

W262

Pressure Sensitive Side Seam Hot Melt, Clear, colorless Hot Melt, Medium Open Time, Bonds to a wide variety of cover stocks.

 Medium/Fast

325-375°F

 2000 cps

Pillows

 

-Bulk Hot Melts are packaged in Drums & 25/35/50lb boxes-1350lbs /pallet.
-Available forms include: pellets, chips, pillows, beads in bag & chub form.


 

To speak with a technical representative about your application, or to request Samples; Please call us at 

1-800-249-0337 or email to sales@cattieadhesives.com

 



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