Abstract: Adhesive tapes are described which find particular application for sealing joints or regions between adjacent panels such as rigid foam insulation panels. Also described are methods of using the sealing tapes and systems of sealed panels using the sealing tapes.

Abstract: Adhesive tapes are described which find particular application for sealing joints or regions between adjacent panels such as rigid foam insulation panels. Also described are methods of using the sealing tapes and systems of sealed panels using the sealing tapes.

Abstract: Various methods involving a sequential, dual stage cure are described. The methods utilize a first stage UV cure which is sequentially followed by a second stage electron beam cure. An array of compositions are also described, many of which are acrylate based.

Abstract: An adhesive tape comprising a core layer comprising a foam and having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The adhesive tape also comprises a first adhesive layer disposed about the first surface. And, the adhesive tape also comprises a second adhesive layer disposed about the second surface. At least one of the first and second adhesive layers comprises a radiation curable rubber based adhesive. The tapes are suitable for bonding an article to a target substrate having a low surface energy and for bonding under a variety of atmospheric conditions including at elevated temperatures.

Abstract: A flame retardant adhesive pressure sensitive adhesive containing a blend of flame retardants is provided. The flame retardant blend comprises (a) at least one metal oxide; (b) at least one metal hydrate; (c) at least one halogenated material; and (d) a liquid phosphorous-bromine containing composition comprising a triaryl phosphate ester having low triphenyl phosphate content.

Abstract: The present invention provides pressure sensitive adhesive tape including at least one electron beam cured (EB-cured), rubber-based pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) core including microspheres. The core layer is coated on at least one side, and in one embodiment, on both sides, with a skin layer including an EB-cured rubber-based PSA that is substantially free of microspheres. The core layer may comprise a lamination seam, a second core layer or a non-woven support layer.

Abstract: A double sided tape for detachably mounting a flexible printing plate to a flexographic printing press cylinder includes pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on opposed sides of a coextruded multilayer carrier having a core formed of a thermoplastic elastomer containing a uniform distribution of voids and one or more skin layers formed of film-forming thermoplastic polymer. The cellular thermoplastic elastomer is constructed to accommodate compressibility loads imposed during printing and to resist shear and tensile loads imposed during tape removal.

Abstract: A release coated liner and security labels containing such release coated liners are described. In one embodiment the labels comprise(A) a sheet having an upper and a lower surface;(B) an adhesive layer having an upper surface and a lower surface and having its upper surface in contact with the lower surface of the sheet; and(C) a liner with a release coating removably affixed to the lower surface of the adhesive layer (B) wherein the release coating contains a microencapsulated material which is capable of marking a substrate when (a) at least some of the capsules are broken, (b) the liner with release coating is removed from the label, and (c) the label, without liner and release coating is applied to a substrate.The sheet (A) may be a multilayer sheet. In preferred embodiments, the microencapsulated material is an etchant or a fluorescent agent. The security labels may be applied to glass or metal and is preferably applied to painted glass or metal.

Abstract: A inherently tacky pressure-sensitive adhesive copolymer is formed by copolymerizing at least one alkyl acrylate in the presence of a positive amount up to 50 percent by weight of the monomers of a polar acrylate monomer which, when homopolymerized, have a glass transition temperature less than 50.degree. C.

Abstract: A inherently tacky pressure-sensitive adhesive copolymer is formed by copolymerizing at least one alkyl acrylate in the presence of a positive amount up to 50 percent by weight of the monomers of a polar acrylate monomer which, when homopolymerized, have a glass transition temperature less than 50.degree. C.

Abstract: A double sided tape for detachably mounting a flexible printing plate to a flexographic printing press cylinder includes pressure-sensitive adhesive layers on opposed sides of a coextruded multilayer carrier having a core formed of a thermoplastic elastomer containing a uniform distribution of voids and one or more skin layers formed of film-forming thermoplastic polymer. The cellular thermoplastic elastomer is constructed to accommodate compressibility loads imposed during printing and to resist shear and tensile loads imposed during tape removal.

Abstract: A process of making backed, pressure-adherent carpeting. A construction is assembled comprising a backing-film and an adhesive on one side of the backing film, and then, in a separate step, the other side of the backing film is heat-laminated to a web of carpeting to thereby reinforce the carpeting and provide it with an adhesive. The carpeting is both reinforced and rendered adherent in a single pass of the carpeting and at a single station in the carpet-manufacturing line.

Abstract: A release liner comprising a thermoplastic film having a release surface including a cured silicone coating for use in moldable pressure-sensitive adhesive fastening tapes and laminates including a moldable or formable layer. The rheological properties of the thermoplastic film at elevated temperatures are used to achieve mold conformability and retention of uniform release characteristics.