Wood and Composites
As one of the leading adhesive expert providers to the woodworking and composites industries, we strive to develop new solutions and innovative products to serve our customers even better. By listening and understanding your challenges, we develop creative, sustainable solutions that help maximize your business efficiency.
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Decorative Edges and Foils
Primers for diverse edgebanding substrates and foils application methods.
Primers are used when the adhesion to a certain material cannot be performed directly, acting as a connection between the substrate and the adhesive used for edge banding or 3D lamination foils. At H.B. Fuller, we have a long history of collaboration with our customers, with a dedicated team of experts in woodworking processes and machinery, developing primers that make possible the use of PVC, PP or ABS as edge bands or foils for furniture components. Beyond complying with regulatory guidelines, we also keep pace with the most demanding industry requirements, providing NEP, NMP, Pirrolidone, Toluene and THF free as well as PVC free products within our new Primers Range.
Intrafol™
We understand the edgebanding manufacturing market needs and have been developing primers for many years. Our robust product range includes primers for diverse edgebanding substrates and application methods.
Benefits of Intrafol products:
- Versatile solvent based primer for ABS, PP and PVC
- Improved machinability
- Adapted to new industrial regulations
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Doors
Door manufacturing continues to evolve with new materials, process efficiencies and innovations while consumers’ product performance expectations continue to grow. Whether they are replacing doors for safety, curb appeal, or updating the look of their building, consumers today are faced with more choices than ever. Today’s adhesives must provide flexibility, speed and wider adhesion performance with high-end use reliability.
Our current product offerings include many new adhesives developed and rapidly prototyped in our world-class R&D and applications facilities. Our comprehensive technical expertise is used to formulate adhesive solutions that exceed performance levels required by industry certifications.
From polyvinyl acetates to hot melt polyurethane adhesives to liquid moisture cure polyurethanes, our adhesive technologies improve the look and durability of both interior and exterior doors.
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Engineered Panels
At H.B. Fuller, we make it our business to understand your panel lamination processes. Every day, we listen and collaborate with our customers to deliver the technical solutions and panel lamination adhesives that help your business thrive. We can provide a solution to help with faster cycles, reduced costs, fewer defects, and less time spent on rework.
Our product line of panel lamination adhesives allows bonding of a wide range of materials to wood without changing the status of wood as a renewable resource, and we also can help address panel lamination adhesives for customers pursuing certification.
Building Elements
Panels as building elements are a more favorable choice because of thermal insulation properties, aptitude to dampen sound, light weight, easy construction and lower cost compared to other materials. They are made by bonding together a variety of wood, plastic, metal, ceramic, glass, and fiber-based composite materials. These building elements are used widely for external walls, internal structures and roof construction within a variety of industries. Some examples could be dry walls, ceiling and roofing panels, panels for modular homes and radiant barrier panels for roofing. We offer high-performance adhesives that address energy savings and material efficiency.
Industrial Panels
H.B. Fuller has a deep understanding of the challenges facing the panel manufacturing industry. Our panel lamination adhesives are designed to meet our customers’ critical needs, such as lowering cost in use while also increasing efficiency and production output.
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Flooring Manufacturing
Whether you are producing engineered wood floors, functional underlayment, or resilient, high-performance flooring for today’s modern homes or offices, we work with you to enhance your products and production with a complete portfolio of adhesive solutions.
With global reach and local expertise, you’re backed by the support of our team of application engineers, regional sales managers, and technical experts who know your business inside out.
Engineered Wood Flooring and Parquet
Our innovative solutions, including Rapidex® and Swift® adhesives, allow you to increase your production output while reducing labor costs and capital expenditures. Plus, you’re backed by the support of H.B. Fuller’s global and local commercial experts, application engineers, and technical service teams.
Rapidex® and Rakoll® viscosity profile at application is shown to be more forgiving and has a reduction in scrape when compared to typical PUR hot melts that are not formulated specifically for EWF lamination. Our strong hot melt tapes are perfect for engineered floor manufacturing, and our high-quality products will hold wood strips together during the production of natural wood floors, veneer jointing, and cross-laminated timber (CLT).
Flooring Backers
When it comes to flooring, the quieter, the better. Take the example of a large room with high ceilings, a simple walk across the lobby of an office building, for example, can become very distracting. The installation of sound deadening backers to laminate and engineered wood floorings is an effective solution to reduce sound transmission, and the adhesives are an important element of their performance.
Resilient
When considering a new hard floor for home or business, an increasing number of consumers seek a stylish floor practical and easy to maintain. The luxury vinyl flooring (LVT) are becoming ever more popular. Consumers today also are looking for sustainable floorings, with cork standing out as one of the preferred choices. All these new types of flooring require adhesives with special performance that H.B. Fuller is able to provide.
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Furniture Components
At H.B. Fuller, we have a long history of innovating woodworking adhesive solutions. Our performance products are designed to solve problems, make manufacturing processes more efficient, and are used for a broad variety of applications, including decorative lamination, profile wrapping, edge banding, membrane press, furniture assembly, upholstery and mattresses.
Recent VOC regulations and consumer awareness have resulted in a greater demand for new products that have volatile components emissions. Today’s wood products are being manufactured with new composite materials and decorative surfaces that give customers more furniture choices with low emission ratings, including formaldehyde.
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Plywood Composing
Adhesives Coated Solutions for Plywood
Our strong hot melt tapes and strings adhere veneers quickly and firmly together and minimize your veneer waste while providing service for the following markets and applications:
- Parquet manufacturing and composing
- Plywood manufacturing and composing
H.B. Fuller's plywood adhesive coated solutions improve wood recovery in both green and dry veneer composing processes.
H.B. Fuller has developed a non-toxic application that adds an alternative to your plywood composers. Our Sesame® Green Veneer Tape can add another option for your composing operations, and benefits include:
- Free of formaldehyde
- Increase dryer efficiency on random veneer
- Reduce core voids and laps at layup lines
Sesame® Veneer Tape and string: Sesame® Veneer Tape is used in the veneer sheet composing process, holding pieces of veneer to make large sheets. This product helps plywood manufacturers reduce voids and waste and maximize wood yield and production efficiency, leading to increased mill profitability.
Sesame® Green Veneer Tape: Sesame® Green Veneer Tape is specially formulated to compose veneer while it is wet. The tape is heat activated during composing but is designed to maintain bonds through the veneer drying process, thereby making our solutions versatile enough to be used for either wet or dry composing.
Face Veneer Composing: Elevate your veneer application with our premium hot melt strings tailored for Kuper composers and machine codes. Enhance efficiency and yield with our superior Kraft veneer tapes and state-of-the-art applicators.
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Window Frames and Fenestration
To bring in-demand, high performance windows to market, you need a partner that offers global R&D capabilities and superior technical expertise. A partner that can help deliver the products your customers want and the end-to-end support your business needs. Whether you are manufacturing windows that will be used in cold, moderate or hot and humid climates, you can rely on the high-quality performance of H.B. Fuller solutions for window profiles.
We’ve been supporting PVC window profile manufacturers since the inception of this technology. Swift® adhesives and primer are combined solutions for sustainable, high quality and long-lasting performance, with different application systems and substrates in the window profile segment.
