Specially formulated adhesive which is well established and used by many tube winders, who have found this adhesive has the following advantages over all other tube winding adhesives:

Better bonding to heavy calandered or high moisture recycled board The adhesive has the capacity to reach fibre tear by loss of temperature alone, giving it advantages over other adhesives that only rely on loss of moisture to reach a bond.
Better Wet Tack - The 10% special tackifiers and wetting agents added to this formulation provide exceedingly good wet tack at its operating concentration and thus give good economy in use.
More rigid tubes - savings on board costs. The adhesives long molecular structure gives more rigid tubes, thus allowing the use of lower board weight without overlapping. Up to 15% savings in board costs are achievable.
Higher Productivity - The adhesives better bonding technique enables machines to operate at consistently higher speeds on a wide range of boards with accompanying quicker start up times, shorter reel changing times and less waste. Top speeds in excess of 110 metres per minute are achievable on modern high speed Tube Winders.

N.B. Recent improvements to the formulation using Tackifiers and Wetting Agents have improved the above-mentioned virtues very considerably, which are noticeable to our customers.

DIRECTIONS FOR USE:

The 12.5 kilo slab should be cut into 1-2 kilo slabs and placed into the adhesive trough.
The adhesive should be heated to a temperature of 50°- 60°C (120°- 140°F) when it will liquify and be ready for use. In no circumstances must the heat of the adhesive exceed 60° C (140°F). Continuous running above 60°C will cause the adhesive to deteriorate.
The adhesive may be used as supplied. However, it is important to remember evaporation does occur in the glue bath quite quickly and dilution of the glue with warm water is required to maintain the adhesive's wet tack and penetration, particularly of the dry ply.
For your guidance our adhesive is formulated to achieve maximum speeds and bond strength when the concentration is between 52 to 55% solids using a sugar refractometer. Used in this way considerable economy is achievable. It is our experience that poor bonding and low speeds occur when solids in the glue bath are above 60%.
NB: Hand held refractometers can be obtained from:
Bellingham & Stanley Limited Longfield Road North Farm Industrial Estate Tunbridge Wells Kent TN2 3EY Tel: 01892 536444 Fax: 01892 543115 (Field Refractometer Model No: 21-50 Range: 45-80% sugar)

F.D.A. STANDARDS: The materials used in this formulation conform to the requirements of the Code of Federal Regulations 21 CFR175, 105.

Effect on the Environment

Being a natural colloid, this adhesive is water soluble and any paper/board bonded with it is completely recyclable. It is also biodegradable in normal effluent processing plants and will break down in the soil to become an organic plant nutrient.

FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY DETAILS, PLEASE SEE LEAFLET NUMBER ADH/1

REF: LEAFLET TECHNICAL/E2