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Water-Based Adhesives
Manufactured with flexibility. Selected around your process.
HAR is a leading manufacturer of industrial water-based adhesives serving packaging, converting, graphic arts, envelope, woodworking, and specialty manufacturing applications.
Water-based products can provide excellent wet tack, fiber tear, penetration, machinability, coating performance, and clean application.
The correct formulation depends on more than the materials being bonded. Paper grade, recycled content, porosity, coatings, line speed, drying, coat weight, compression, and end-use conditions can all influence performance.
Our Manufacturing Advantage
HAR manufactures water-based adhesives in Bedford, Ohio, and Cheektowaga, New York.
These capabilities provide flexibility in production, packaging, technical coordination, and supply planning.
When an existing formulation fits, we will say so. When an adjustment or custom product is justified, we have the manufacturing and technical resources to explore it.
Start With the Process
Tell us what you manufacture, the materials involved, the adhesive you currently use, and what you would like to improve.
Technology We Support
Dextrin & Starch Adhesives
Cost-effective water-based technologies commonly used for paper converting, tube and core winding, laminating, packaging, and other applications where strong fiber bonds are important.
PVA Adhesives
Versatile polyvinyl acetate technologies used for folding cartons, corrugated, paper converting, woodworking, bookbinding, and general assembly applications requiring dependable wet tack and bond strength.
Resin & Synthetic Emulsion Adhesives
High-performance formulations designed for applications requiring improved adhesion, faster set, greater flexibility, or better performance on coated and more challenging substrates.
Water-Based Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives
Tacky formulations designed for labels, coatings, laminating, removable applications, and other products that require a bond to form with light pressure.
Heat-Seal Adhesives & Coatings
Water-based coatings that are applied and dried during production, then activated later with heat to create a bond for packaging, converting, and specialty applications.
Custom Water-Based Formulations
Application-specific formulations developed or modified around substrates, line speed, application method, drying requirements, coat weight, and finished-bond performance.
When to Consider a Different Water-Based Adhesive
A current adhesive is no longer performing consistently.
Paper, coatings, production speeds, or customer specifications have changed.
A product has been discontinued or is subject to difficult lead times or minimum quantities.
Adhesive use, drying time, cleanup, or production waste is too high.
A new application requires testing or formulation support.
They want access to a responsive domestic manufacturer rather than only a product catalog.
Joe and the HAR Team
