Innovation in the Adhesive & Sealant Industry –
A Panel Discussion

A FREE Live Event | December 6, 2024

This a Free to Attend live event for everyone.

Innovation is critical in all industries to enable competitive differentiation by meeting evolving market needs such as improved performance, sustainability, and operational efficiency. The most successful innovations occur when great technical ideas align with unmet market needs. The ASC Innovation Awards Program is designed to recognize innovation in adhesive and sealant product development. These awards identify significant advancements of adhesive and sealant technology that deliver meaningful benefits to downstream users…

Adhesion for Circularity: Debonding Substrates On-Demand

WEBINAR | December 11, 2024

In this webinar two basic mechanisms: cohesive and adhesive failure, and the general strategies through polymer modification and additive approaches to achieve “Adhesion-on-Demand” will be outlined. Additionally, various choices of stimulus such as thermal, UV irradiation, chemical, etc. for debonding and their advantages/ & disadvantages will be discussed. The primary focus is on crosslinked epoxy and polyurethane systems. There is also a brief discussion on reversible adhesive systems found in nature.

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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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

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 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.

View the library on ASC’s GoToWebinar platform…