Structural Epoxy Adhesives
Two-part epoxy systems formulated to a lap-shear target, with control over exotherm, pot life, gap fill and amine blush resistance.
High-Performance Bonding System
Custom Adhesive Formulation & Private Label Adhesives
From high-tensile structural glues to rapid-cure hot-melts and acrylics, our Kenosha, Wisconsin laboratory designs, enhances, and manufactures custom chemical bonding agents optimized for extreme commercial and OEM assembly environments.
Organic Polymer Chemistry
Custom Manufacturing Adhesive Solutions
Whether you need custom epoxy formulation for an OEM plant or private label industrial adhesives for distribution, our chemists have the experience to deliver high-performance custom bonding solutions:
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High-Tensile Epoxies: Two-part structural epoxies customized for lap-shear strength, flexible elongation, thermal thresholds (up to 300°C), and substrate interface variables (metal, concrete, composite).
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Structural Acrylics & Cyanoacrylates: Rapid-fixturing bonding agents designed for automated factory assembly lines, offering extreme impact and peel resistance.
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Private Label Branding & OEM: Complete brand packaging, GHS labeling, GHS SDS safety profiling, and contract wholesale production of proprietary adhesives designed to sell under your company name.
Scientific R&D
Structural Adhesive Testing & Modification Services
Viscosity & Flow Optimization
Enhancing open times, sag resistance, and application flow properties (rheology control) to match applicator conditions perfectly.
Substrate Interface Analysis
Rigorous material interface compatibility testing to maximize adhesion values on difficult surfaces like powder-coated metals, low-energy plastics, and porous masonry.
Environmental Stress Testing
Subjecting adhesive bonds to extreme temperature fluctuations, UV degradation, mechanical vibration, and moisture ingress to verify permanent weather protection.
Adhesive Chemistries
Custom Adhesive Formulation & Bespoke Adhesive Manufacturing
The right adhesive is decided by the substrate pair and the service environment, not by what is easiest to buy. We formulate across every major chemistry so the recommendation is not biased by what we happen to stock.
Structural Acrylics & MMA
Fast-fixturing acrylic adhesives that tolerate oily, unprepared and low surface energy substrates where epoxy struggles.
Cyanoacrylates & Instant Adhesives
Viscosity-graded instant adhesives, rubber-toughened grades and surface-insensitive versions for acidic substrates.
Polyurethane & Hot Melt Adhesives
Reactive hot melts, moisture-cure polyurethanes and construction adhesives balanced for open time and green strength.
Silane-Terminated Hybrids
Isocyanate-free, low-VOC elastic adhesives that bond and seal at once — increasingly the answer where regulation has closed off older chemistries.
Bonding Primers & Adhesion Promoters
Surface treatments for polyolefins, PTFE-adjacent plastics, galvanized metal and composites that would otherwise refuse to bond.
Adhesion promoters →Industrial Adhesive Blending Services
Have a formula and need capacity? We blend, fill and QC to your specification under contract, in cartridges through drums.
Contract blending →Private Label Adhesive Manufacturing
Launch a branded adhesive line — construction adhesives, epoxies, instant adhesives — with your artwork, GHS labels and an SDS included.
Private label adhesives →Bespoke Adhesive Manufacturing for OEMs
Assembly-line adhesives engineered around cycle time, dispensing equipment, fixture time and bond strength requirements rather than around a catalog page.
OEM adhesive projects →
Frequently Asked Questions
Custom Adhesive & Epoxy Formulation FAQ
Choosing a chemistry, bonding difficult plastics, matching a discontinued adhesive and private labeling.
What is custom adhesive formulation?
Custom adhesive formulation is the design of an adhesive around a specific bonding problem: two named substrates, a required strength, a cure window your process can live with, and an environment the joint has to survive. Instead of testing catalog products until one nearly works, the adhesive is built to the specification from the resin backbone up.
Which adhesive chemistry is right for my application?
It is driven mostly by substrate and environment. Epoxy gives the highest strength and chemical resistance on rigid, well-prepared surfaces. Structural acrylics tolerate oily or poorly prepared metal and cure fast. Polyurethanes and silane-terminated hybrids stay flexible and handle joint movement and thermal cycling. Cyanoacrylates suit small, tight-fitting parts needing instant handling strength. Tell us the substrate pair and the service conditions and we will tell you which of these to be in.
Can you formulate an adhesive for low surface energy plastics?
Yes. Polypropylene, polyethylene and similar low surface energy plastics need either a modified structural acrylic system or an adhesion promoter and primer step. This is a routine request and one of the clearest cases where a formulated adhesive outperforms anything you can buy off a shelf.
Can you match or replace an adhesive I currently buy?
Yes. Send the product data, a sample and what is wrong with it — price, lead time, a discontinued grade or a performance complaint. We rebuild an equivalent adhesive you own outright, generally correcting the original problem in the process.
Do you offer private label adhesives and epoxies?
Yes. We manufacture branded adhesive and epoxy lines for distributors and retail brands — cartridges, dual cartridges, bottles, quarts, gallons, pails and drums — with your artwork, GHS-compliant labeling and an authored SDS.
How is adhesive strength verified?
Through lap-shear, tensile, peel and impact testing against ASTM protocols, plus environmental conditioning — heat, humidity, chemical exposure and thermal cycling — so the numbers reflect the joint after it ages, not just on the day it was made.