* 1960 sells consumer and industrial adhesives business and the Danish 3M agency to Lars Foss,

Finally, the Specialty Polymers & Adhesives business manufactures various adhesives and resins for the transportation, aerospace, and construction industries.

Through its suppliers, Graybar provides products such as boxes & fittings, business telephone systems, cabinets and racks, cabling management and pathways, chemicals and adhesives, communications wire, cable and fiber conduit, raceway and fasteners, controls and motors, copper connectivity solutions, distribution equipment, enclosures and industrial products, fiber connectivity solutions, heating and ventilating, industrial automation and control, lamps, lighting and ballasts, life safety and signaling, networking and wireless, power distribution, security and notification, products terminating, splicing and grounding, testing instruments, tools and installation products, voice and accessory products, wire and cable, wiring devices, and protection and power conditioning for a number of markets and industries.

Where necessary different widths can be seamed together with a seaming iron and seam tape ( formerly it was sewn together ) and it is fixed to a floor over a cushioned underlay ( pad ) using nails, tack strips ( known in the UK as gripper rods ), adhesives, or occasionally decorative metal stair rods, thus distinguishing it from rugs or mats, which are loose-laid floor coverings.

Prior to the Montreal Protocol, it was widely used for cleaning metal parts and circuit boards, as a photoresist solvent in the electronics industry, as an aerosol propellant, as a cutting fluid additive, and as a solvent for inks, paints, adhesives and other coatings.

Balsam was phased out as an optical adhesive during World War II, in favour of polyester, epoxy, and urethane-based adhesives.

With the end of the war, the company was able to resume production of its trademark glues and paints, including adhesives for the plastics that were quickly becoming popular.

It was donated to the National Museum Wales in 1912, and sent to London for restoration by British Museum staff where it was reconstructed mainly from wax plus various adhesives to re-attach the decoration.

The cause of the collapse was later determined to be the failure of adhesives connecting a steel tieback suspending the concrete drop ceiling to the main ceiling above.

In New York City, a compromise was reached with the Board of Education whereby the wearing of the knives was allowed so long as they were secured within the sheaths with adhesives and made impossible to draw.

Henkel found there was a demand for adhesives on the market, and on June 22, 1923, the first adhesive shipment left the plant.

To save weight the bonnet was made from a composite material called KMC ( composed of polyester and fiberglass, and using epoxi adhesives also ), while front wings were made in PUR plastic.

The disruption caused Henkel to internally manufacture adhesives for its own needs.

From July 20, the British military government gradually granted permission for the production of adhesives, P3 and water-glass by Henkel, and for soaps and detergents as well as shoe polish by Thompson.

* In 1962, Henkel acquired Sichel-Werke AG, Hannover, its main German competitor in the adhesives sector.

The native Americans developed a complex understanding of the chemical properties or utility of natural substances, with the result that a majority of the world's early medicinal drugs and edible crops, many important adhesives, paints, fibres, plasters, and other useful items were the products of these civilizations.

The hard transparent resins, such as the copals, dammars, mastic and sandarac, are principally used for varnishes and adhesives, while the softer odoriferous oleo-resins ( frankincense, elemi, turpentine, copaiba ) and gum resins containing essential oils ( ammoniacum, asafoetida, gamboge, myrrh, and scammony ) are more largely used for therapeutic purposes and incense.

Some wood joints employ fasteners, bindings, or adhesives, while others use only wood elements.

It can be used as a base for adhesives, noise isolation in power transformer installations, and as padding in external metal cases to protect the contents while allowing a snug fit.

The Carpenters were traditionally different from a fellow wood-crafting company, the Joiners ' and Ceilers ' Company, in that the Carpenters utilised nails while the Joiners used adhesives to attach wood.

Some adhesives such as 3M's DP-8005 is able to bond to PEX, while larger repairs require melting and mixing more Polyethylene into the canoe / kayak to form a solid bond and fill the damaged area.

In addition to its extensive use in soap making, rosin is largely employed in making varnishes ( including fine violin varnishes ), sealing wax and various adhesives.

In its most common form, a cube, it is made from two triangular glass prisms which are glued together at their base using polyester, epoxy, or urethane-based adhesives.

In Testor's case, this manifested itself in difficulties acquiring the chemicals necessary to continue producing its line of adhesives and paints.

The building also used bearing masonry in its construction, which is mason units or concrete blocks with lime and man made adhesives to stick them together.

Bostik is an international adhesives company, a subsidiary of the French oil and gas company Total S. A., head-quartered at Paris.

Although neoprene itself is not a skin contact sensitizer, certain neoprene adhesives contain 4 % rosin ( CAS No. 8050-09-7, previously known as " colophony "), which is a skin contact sensitizer under the European Union Dangerous Preparations Directive 1999 / 45 / EC.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

And in meeting the demands for urethane foam as a garment interlining, new adhesives and new methods of laminating foam to a substrate have been developed.

The types of materials that can be bonded are vast but adhesives are especially useful for bonding thin materials.

Market researchers forecast a turnover of almost US $ 50 billion for the global adhesives market in 2019.

Especially the dynamic economic development in emerging countries such as China, India, Russia or Brazil will cause a rising demand for adhesives in the future.

Removable adhesives are used in applications such as surface protection films, masking tapes, bookmark and note papers, price marking labels, promotional graphics materials, and for skin contact ( wound care dressings, EKG electrodes, athletic tape, analgesic and transdermal drug patches, etc .).

The solvents present in the adhesives are a medium for the polyester or the polyurethane resin.

* Potato starch is used in the food industry as, for example, thickeners and binders of soups and sauces, in the textile industry, as adhesives, and for the manufacturing of papers and boards.

All the adhesives used in previous restorations had deteriorated, so to find one that would last, conservation scientists at the museum tested many adhesives for long term stability.

Cyanoacrylate is the generic name for a family of fast-acting adhesives with industrial, medical and household uses.

There is no singular measurement of toxicity for all cyanoacrylate adhesives as there is a wide variety of adhesives that contain various cyanoacrylate formulations.

PCBs were also used as plasticizers in paints and cements, stabilizing additives in flexible PVC coatings of electrical wiring and electronic components, pesticide extenders, cutting oils, reactive flame retardants, lubricating oils, hydraulic fluids, and sealants ( for caulking in schools and commercial buildings ), adhesives, wood floor finishes ( such as Fabulon and other products of Halowax in the U. S .), paints, de-dusting agents, water-proofing compounds, casting agents, vacuum pump fluids, fixatives in microscopy, surgical implants, and in carbonless copy (" NCR ") paper.

Polyurethanes are used in the manufacture of flexible, high-resilience foam seating ; rigid foam insulation panels ; microcellular foam seals and gaskets ; durable elastomeric wheels and tires ; automotive suspension bushings ; electrical potting compounds ; high performance adhesives ; surface coatings and surface sealants ; synthetic fibers ( e. g., Spandex ); carpet underlay ; and hard-plastic parts ( e. g., for electronic instruments ).

Asbestos and basalt fibre are used for vinyl tiles, sheeting, and adhesives, " transite " panels and siding, acoustical ceilings, stage curtains, and fire blankets.

It has a very wide range of uses from being a filler for human foods, such as in ice cream, to the manufacture of products such as fabric, adhesives, and plastics.

Resins are valued for their chemical properties and associated uses, such as the production of varnishes, adhesives and food glazing agents.

Olefins and aromatics are the building-blocks for a wide range of materials such as solvents, detergents, and adhesives.

Hundreds of products, ranging from the uniformly beautiful panels for buildings to finely ground marble powders for fillers and extenders in paints, plastics, papers, rubber, adhesives, caulks, roofing, flooring, fiberglass and ceramics.