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Printing, Padding & Bookbinding
Proven water-based bindery adhesives for printers and distributors—plus high-performance hot melts for commercial bookbinding and demanding finishing applications.
Printers and bookbinders use different processes, equipment, adhesive technologies, and performance standards. This page is designed to serve both without treating them as the same customer.
We are a leading manufacturer of water-based padding, fan-apart, collating, and specialty bindery adhesives sold through paper merchants and printing and packaging distributors. We also support commercial bookbinders with high-performance hot melts for perfect binding, case binding, spine gluing, and related applications.
Decades of Graphic Arts Experience
Our history in this market is built on products that perform and relationships that endure. We value the paper merchants, printing distributors, packaging distributors, printers, finishers, and bookbinders who have helped build this part of our business.
Whether customers purchase directly or through one of our distribution partners, our goal is to provide dependable products, practical support, and an appropriate solution for the work being produced.
Find the Right Product or Start a Technical Conversation
Tell us whether you are padding, collating, producing forms, finishing printed pieces, or binding books. We will connect you with the appropriate product, distributor, or technical resource.
Applications We Support
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For Printers and Finishing Operations
Padding Compounds
Water-based products for notepads, printed pads, forms, specialty paper products, and general padding applications.
Fan-Apart Adhesives
Adhesives formulated for carbonless forms and other constructions that must separate into intended sets after application.
Collating and Fugitive Applications
Permanent, removable, and temporary attachment technologies for print finishing, direct mail, inserts, and assembled printed products.
Specialty Graphic Arts Adhesives
Products for unusual papers, coatings, printed materials, manual finishing, and other specialty requirements.
For Commercial Bookbinders
Perfect Binding
Hot melt technologies selected around paper, coatings, spine preparation, line speed, flexibility, durability, and finished-book performance.
Case Binding
Adhesives for case making, casing-in, lining, and other hardcover book production steps.
Spine and Side Gluing
High-performance hot melts and related technologies for strong, flexible bonds and dependable production.
Coated, Printed and Recycled Papers
Products chosen to address difficult paper surfaces, changing recycled content, and the demands of modern book production.
Padding compound
Pad glue
Fan-apart adhesive
Carbonless-forms adhesive
Collating glue
Fugitive glue
Removable glue
Perfect-binding adhesive
Bookbinding hot melt
Spine glue
Side glue
Case-binding adhesive
Bindery adhesive
Why Printers, Distributors and Bookbinders Contact HAR
A padding compound, fan-apart adhesive, or collating product is not producing clean, consistent results.
Paper, coatings, inks, recycled content, or production conditions have changed.
A commercial binder needs better spine adhesion, flexibility, durability, or operating speed.
A familiar product has become unavailable, expensive, or subject to burdensome minimum orders.
A paper merchant or printing distributor needs a dependable source for proven packaged bindery adhesives.
The customer wants responsive support from an experienced manufacturer of water-based graphic arts adhesives and a supplier of high-performance bookbinding hot melts.
Joe and the HAR Team
