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Flexel
Flexel™ - A groundbreaking option in the reactive film adhesives market
Flexel™ provides an innovative blend of strength, flexibility, and ease of use. Unlike traditional thermoset adhesives, Flexel™ requires significantly less heat for activation, ensuring safer usage with electronics and a wider range of substrates. With activation times under 60 seconds and cure temperatures as low as 75° to 90°C (167° - 194°F), our solution expedites production processes.
Despite its rapid curing, Flexel™ retains its elongation, ensuring flexibility while increasing tensile strength, making it ideal for electronic devices and wearables. Available in various formulations, it can be used on diverse materials such as aluminum, stainless steel, plastics, textiles, foils, and leather, adhering without priming. Flexel™ is user friendly, clean, fast acting, and gentle on substrates. Its thermoset nature forms a tough, heat, chemical, and water-resistant bond that is stable under ambient conditions, so it does not require refrigeration during storage.
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Flexel™ Reactive Film Adhesive Formulations:
These reactive film adhesives come in a variety of formulations. They can be used on many different materials, including aluminum, stainless steel, plastics, textiles, foils, and real and artificial leather. These reactive film adhesives adhere to more materials than heat-activated film without priming.
Flexel™ reactive film adhesives are:
- Simple: Flexel™ comes in an easy-to-use film form that does not require metering like a liquid adhesive system, enabling you to put exactly the right amount of adhesive down precisely where you need it every time.
- Clean: Flexel™ film adhesives are clean, unlike the messy application processes that come with liquid or hot melt adhesive systems.
- Fast: Flexel™ film adhesives are easy-to-use and hassle-free, helping you bring new products from concept to market more quickly.
- Cool: Flexel™ film adhesives feature a low activation temperature that is gentle on your substrates and helps to maintain superior esthetics of your fine textiles and leather.
- Durable: Flexel™ film adhesives are a thermoset adhesive, meaning that they crosslink upon heat activation, to form a tough bond that will stand up to exposure to heat, chemicals, and water better than thermoplastic adhesives.
- Easy Handling: Flexel™ film adhesives are stable under ambient conditions, so they do not require refrigeration during storage.
- Brand Highlights
- Activation typically takes less than 60 seconds, and may require as little as 75°C to 90°C for cure. Bonded parts can typically be handled and processed immediately after bonding.
- Flexel™ reactive film adhesives do not lose elongation as they cure, enabling them to stay flexible, and it gains significantly in tensile strength, making it extremely tough. Being both flexible and tough are great characteristics for electronic devices and accessories, especially wearables.
- Product Details
- One component, heat-activated thermoset adhesive film
- Available thickness: 25 - 150 µm
- Solid content: 100%
- Bonds plastic substrates, pre-treated olefins, metals, foils, and textiles
- Ideal for electronics and lamination
- Minimum activation temperature: 75°C
- Can be handled, trimmed, or cut immediately after bonding and cooling
- High fracture toughness, peel, and shear strength
- High heat resistance after cure
- Elongation at break approximately: 800%
- Tensile strength of free film: 30 MPa
- Flexel Products Features
- Simple, clean and fast
- Durable
- Easy Handling