Seeing the light: radiation-cured adhesives gain momentum among end users. (RadTech Roundup).

Adhesives Age,  May, 2002  by Greg Valero

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INDIANAPOLIS--Better, faster cleaner.

Simply put, these are the primary advantages radiation-cured adhesives offer over competitive technologies, especially solvent-based chemistries. More and more end users are reportedly seeing the light as the technology expands into many applications, from cans and food packaging to electronic equipment.

This was the consensus of end users and exhibitors Adhesives Age spoke to at RadTech 2002, held April 28 to May 1 here at the Indiana Convention Center. "Curing at the Speed of Light" was an appropriate theme for the show, considering the meteoric growth of radiation curing and the fact that adhesives ...