Despite its simple process flow, profile lamination offers some pitfalls that laminating companies have to deal with by necessity. Time- and cost-efficient production and consistent quality are both prerequisites and goals for a competitive market presence.
However, seasonal temperature fluctuations, unstable availability of raw materials as well as a growing number of decorative films to be processed make it necessary to adjust to the respective conditions again and again. A shortage of skilled workers on the labour market, increasing demands on the quality of the end product as well as ever shorter delivery times pose further challenges for manufacturing companies. In view of the many requests for product solutions that simplify the laminating process, TAKA’s research and development team set itself the goal of developing a universal adhesive that takes the complexity out of the application. The result is an adhesive that can be used all year round and is largely independent of temperature fluctuations. This is because it ensures rapid cross-linking in both cold and warm temperatures, which enables safe further processing after a short time and thus short delivery times to the customer.
Thanks to its low viscosity, the adhesive can be applied simply and easily to all common decorative foils. At the same time, it offers a high initial adhesion that holds onto stiffer films after they have been wrapped around the profile, thus providing even inexperienced machine operators with a sufficiently wide processing window that forgives inaccuracies in the application. Once curing is complete, the adhesive bond also achieves excellent weather resistance, which is essential for a long-lasting and permanently attractive foil-laminated PVC-U window.
The development of this all-round adhesive was made possible by the in-house production of our polyesters. In our TAKA2 plant, we develop and produce customised polyesters for our adhesive production. This enables us to achieve product properties that are difficult or impossible to achieve with polyesters that are freely available on the market. At the same time, our adhesive production is thus increasingly independent of the processing industry, which in the past has repeatedly had to struggle with supply difficulties.
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