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News Release from: Smithers Rapra | Subject: Adhesion and bonding to polyolefins
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 May 2002

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Many applications of polyolefins require good adhesion to other substrates. A report discusses ways of improving adhesion to substrates.

Many applications of polyolefins require good adhesion to other substrates, in processes such as adhesive bonding, lamination, painting, printing and metallisation However, polyolefins have very poor bonding properties except where a diffusion mechanism operates such as during the welding together of two pieces of polyolefin

The latest report in the Rapra Review Report series from Rapra Technology, Europe's leading independent plastics and rubber consultancy and publishing house, discusses ways of improving adhesion to substrates.

A variety of pretreatments and primers have been developed for altering the surface properties of polyolefin