Adhesion Enhancement for Plastic Surfaces

WEBINAR | March 11, 2026

Obtaining strong, reliable adhesion of adhesives, paints, and sealants to plastics can be challenging but is completely achievable in a practical manner through the systematic application of a few readily understandable concepts. This webinar begins by outlining the six characteristics of reliable and practical high-performance surface treatment processes, and then provides strategies for developing…

Moisture Effects on Adhesive Bond Performance

WEBINAR | June 24, 2026

Moisture is a critical limiting factor in adhesion performance across many industrial applications and remains one of the leading causes of adhesion failure, regardless of polymer chemistry. Its presence can lead to corrosion, delamination, electrical breakdown, and fluid or gas leakage. This webinar explores the fundamental hydrolytic mechanisms by which moisture degrades adhesion strength at both the material…

On-Demand Adhesive & Sealant Webinars

ASC’s On-Demand Webinars cover diverse, relevant topics such as specific markets, technologies, chemistries, current research in periphery topics of adhesives adhesion and sealants. The content is designed to address needs and interests of both new and veteran professionals.

These highly informative recorded educational webinars are available for purchase and are delivered on ASC’s fundamental, non-commercial platform.

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Waterborne Adhesives Short Course

Technical Short Course | April 14-15, 2025

Waterborne adhesives are a logical choice for a many end use applications where versatile and environmentally friendly solutions are desired. These low VOC adhesives are easily formulated to optimize performance for a wide variety of applications where water clean-up is important. An understanding of the fundamentals of formulating and use of waterborne adhesives will better equip you to select the base polymer and additives package to deliver expected performance and efficiently evaluate and troubleshoot during design, scale up and use this aqueous adhesive class.

Hot Melt Adhesives Short Course

Technical Short Course | April 14-15, 2025

This course presents formulation strategies, based on application and performance requirements for a variety of hot melt adhesive markets by industry experts. Learn how plasticizers, tackifiers and waxes are used to enhance base polymers for optimized processing and properties along with application methods, characterization and testing of formulations, and resulting bonded assemblies.

Free Sustainability Series

This FREE sustainability resource is an incredible resource for educating your staff in CORE sustainability fundamentals for better understanding, consensus, and strategy.

The series included:

• Using Mass Balance Raw Materials in Adhesives and Sealants
• Hidden Insights: Use of Life Cycle Assessment to Know Where and How We Can Take Action
• How to Measure, Report, and Reduce Your Scope 3 Emissions
• Certified Mass Balance and Attribution Approaches

Free Friday Webinar Series FULL LIBRARY

ASC’s FreeFridayWebinar Series are FREE for all to attend. These informative webinars include commercial product introductions from industry suppliers. They cover diverse raw materials and equipment needs for the adhesive & sealant industry.

The recorded commercial/product introduction webinars are available for FREE! You just need to register to watch.

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