Assembling components using adhesives, creates many challenges for manufacturing engineers. Design For Manufacturability (DFM) is the process of efficiently designing products to optimize each manufacturing function which includes fabrication, assembly, test, procurement, shipping, delivery, service, and repair. This method also assures the best cost for the product, highest quality, reliability, passes regulatory compliances, safety, time-to-market, and overall customer satisfaction.

Adhesive R&D DFM solutions minimize waste and quality failures, using rheology to properly and reliably wet surfaces. We match cure speeds to assembly line metrics, and deliver solutions designed to accommodate the polarity of your substrates surfaces. We match the strength and toughness of material, to maximize product life and performance.

When anyone proudly announces they have been using the same anaerobic adhesive for 20, 30, or 50 years, we have to ask why? Legacy anaerobic adhesives have a cure system patented in 1974 and are made of brittle plastics that, while once state-of-the-art in that era, are no longer the best materials.

In an effort to drive performance in the niche market of anaerobic adhesives, Adhesive R&D moved from formulator to manufacturer in 2008. Adhesive R&D began to synthesis polymers capable of achieving advanced performance objectives, in strength, cure speed, chemical and thermal resistance, flexibility, and toughness. Today, Adhesive R&D in-house manufactured polymers and reactive plasticizers, deliver performance unachievable with commercially available materials.

In 1974 Dr. Gerhardt P. Werber, an anaerobic adhesive pioneer, invented the modern anaerobic cure system, known at the time in the industry, as the 3rd generation. Adhesive R&D in an effort to improve assembly line metrics, and increase reliability, developed our 4th generation cure system in 2009. This system improved fixture speeds and stability. In 2013, Adhesive R&D invented our 5th generation cure system. Adhesives with our 5th generation, or MACH V cure system, deliver 15 minute functional cures, allowing end of assembly line quality testing, and preventing adhesives from migrating into sensitive areas. Dr. Werber and Adhesive R&D continue to innovate, creating new polymers and plastizers, which bring advanced performance in flexibility, strength, chemical and heat resistance.

Adhesive R&D's game changer, patent pending CrossFlex™ replaces legacy urethane dependent chemistries in gasketing products, and replaces brittle threadlocking technologies with RubberMAX toughened advanced materials. CrossFlex based gasketing solutions, allow for much faster curing products than legacy urethane based materials, because they don’t contain any isocyanides which negatively impact stability. In thread sealants, CrossFlex replaces fugitive plastizers, with a cross linked molecular structure. These products are more resistant to shock, thermal cycling, and chemical attack.