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A bond beyond

Introducing a new, automated bonding solution that launches your process into the future.

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    3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape GP

  • Manufacturers of appliances, specialty vehicles, and other products have long been limited by the adhesives crucial to their product designs. Until now available bonding products have added time to production lines, required specialized storage and usage conditions, and generated excessive waste.

    3M, in collaboration with Nordson Corporation, has reimagined durable bonding with 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape GP and the 3M™ On Demand Bonding System. Together, they bring your operation the efficiency, versatility, simplicity and sustainability you need to maintain a competitive edge and deliver your customers the next generation of appliance innovation.

    The 3M™ On Demand Bonding System featuring 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape GP:
     

    • Simple, automated solution
    • Easily integrates into your assembly line

    It will bring your operation what it needs to maintain a competitive edge:
     

    • Efficiency
    • Versatility
    • Simplicity
    • Sustainability

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    Beyond efficiency

    The 3M™ On Demand Bonding System featuring 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape can improve your manufacturing process efficiency – and your bottom line.
     

    • Parts can be handled immediately
    • Requires little to no surface preparation
    • Easy to use and store
    • Stretch release allows for clean removal
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    Beyond versatility

    With the ability to adapt to a variety of processes, designs and substrates, this system gives you unmatched versatility. Bonds to a wide variety of substrates, including hard-to-bond materials.
     

    • Bonds curved surfaces and dissimilar shapes
    • Fills in gaps with a smooth, clean appearance
    • Can be deployed for inline or offline assembly
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    Beyond simplicity

    The 3M™ On Demand Bonding System featuring 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape is a fully automated solution that easily integrates into your assembly line. There’s never been a better time to add automation into your workflow.
     

    • Automation reduces your dependence on skilled or specialized labor
    • Automation ensures the most consistent product
    • Reduces complexity in your processes and workflow
    • Standardize your materials by replacing multiple adhesives
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    Beyond sustainability

    As you adapt to regulatory and consumer demands for environmental responsibility, the 3M™ On Demand Bonding System featuring 3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape can help you meet your company’s sustainability goals.
     

    • Stretch release means less waste, faster rework
    • Reduces the need to purge the dispenser and discard purged adhesive
    • No liner waste or die-cut waste, as with tape
    • No residual waste

Deliver your customers the next generation of product innovation with the 3M™ On Demand Bonding System.


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    3M™ VHB™ Extrudable Tape Technical Training Video
  • (SPEECH) [MUSIC PLAYING] (DESCRIPTION) 3M V.H.B. Tape Since 1980. (SPEECH) This is a great product that we've been working with 3M with, the VHB Extrudable Tape Applicator. Oriented toward helping get high productivity with robotic application. (DESCRIPTION) Larry Saidman and Ludovico Davila. (SPEECH) I look at it from two different perspectives. One is the adhesive itself, and this allows for such simplicity of handling and also it opens the door for the automation side. Each company brought to the table their expertise, and it became very apparent that you could see that when the 3M folks were talking about their material, the things that they were focusing on. They were working with design engineers or plant people about the product proper. It's the adhesive, it's the technology that's bringing the part to solve the customer's problem. What we brought to the table was the know of how to implement all of that and what are the pin points. What are what are the things that we need to watch out for? Compared to other solutions that we have, this is designed to be automated. They can dispense, close that bond and move it on to the next step in the process immediately. It allows you potentially to eliminate steps on the process, and also to improve the productivity that you can have compared to other solutions that are commercially available today. So that means that you don't have to wait for it to generate enough handling strength to move it to the next operation. So that really helps in speeding up the process. And they can eliminate a lot of waiting time, right? And also eliminates some of the hardware that is necessary to keep those parts in place. I think the basic innovative culture of both companies came together in a really great way. It's been an honor to work with 3M, and you know when I look back at that equipment and see our logos together, the one thing I think of is just all the people that we work with, and there it is. Array of expertise to leverage that when both together it's like one plus one equals three here. And I think it was the power of two companies working together to achieve more than they might have they been working alone. [MUSIC PLAYING] (DESCRIPTION) Text, The 3M On Demand Bonding System featuring 3M V.H.B. Extrudable Tape, in Collaboration with Nordson, Go to 3M dot com slash V.H.B. or contact your local 3M representative.

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