SOLUTIONS BEYOND IMAGINATION
Specialized Solutions for Unusual Manufacturing Challenges
Some manufacturing challenges don't come with an obvious solution.
Manufacturers come to HAR with difficult-to-bond materials, unusual production processes, specialized performance requirements, and applications that don't fit neatly into a traditional adhesive category.
That's where we start asking questions.
What are you making? What materials are involved? How does your process work? What isn't working today? What does a successful solution need to accomplish?
The answer may be an existing adhesive, a custom formulation, a different adhesive technology, specialized application equipment, an industrial process lubricant—or a combination of approaches.
If you're not sure where your application fits, that's okay. Tell us what you're trying to accomplish.
More Than One Kind of Challenge
Different Problems Require Different Ways of Thinking
What connects these applications isn't a single industry, adhesive chemistry, or product.
It's HAR's willingness to understand an unusual manufacturing challenge and give it the technical attention needed to find a practical solution.
Where Unusual Experience Creates New Possibilities
Applications You'd Never Imagine
Think Your Application Is Too Unusual? We've Heard That Before.
This is another area where the new name improves the presentation.
Instead of simply having a miscellaneous group of odd applications, we can deliberately use them to reinforce Solutions Beyond Imagination.
HAR has also been asked to help:
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Secure hydration packets inside live-animal transport containers.
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Bond artificial foliage used to manufacture artificial trees and commercial décor.
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Attach candle wicks and sustainers during automated candle production.
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Form and bond the paper used to manufacture cotton candy cones.
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Secure paper wrappers around ice cream cones.
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Bond the tips of individual pages during menu manufacturing.
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Seal seed packets on specialized filling equipment.
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Attach label stock to cores and secure the tail at the end of finished label rolls.
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Stabilize premium soil and dirt surfaces.
These applications aren't here because each represents a large market opportunity.
They're here to make a point.
If you have a manufacturing challenge and aren't sure who to call because it doesn't seem to fit neatly into anyone's product catalog, call HAR.
More Than One Technology
An Unusual Problem Deserves More Than One Possible Answer.
Solving unusual manufacturing problems requires more than a large adhesive catalog.
HAR's capabilities and strategic relationships give us access to:
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Hot Melt Adhesives
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Water-Based Adhesives
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PUR Hot Melts
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Liquid PUR & Urethanes
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MMA Structural Adhesives
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Protein & Gelatin Adhesives
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PVOH Solutions
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Thermal Mastics
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Specialty Process Lubricants
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Custom Formulations
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Adhesive Application Equipment
And sometimes the right answer isn't changing the adhesive at all.
It may involve how much is applied, where it's applied, how it's applied, application temperature, pattern, equipment, substrates, or another part of the manufacturing process.
Sometimes the Solution Already Exists. Sometimes It Doesn't.
Not every unusual application requires a custom formulation.
HAR may already know a technology that fits the requirement.
One of our strategic partners may have developed something for a similar problem.
A standard adhesive may work if it's applied differently.
The application equipment may be contributing to the problem.
Or the requirements may genuinely call for something specialized or custom formulated.
Our job is to help determine which situation you're dealing with.
Have a Challenge That Doesn't Fit Anywhere Else?
Maybe you're trying to bond two materials that don't want to stay together.
Maybe the current adhesive is too stiff, sets too quickly, cures too slowly, doesn't provide enough open time, or fails around moisture or temperature.
Maybe a process material is creating smoke, cleanup, tooling, or production problems.
Maybe the product you've used for years is no longer available.
Or perhaps your application is so unusual that you're not even sure what kind of solution you should be looking for.
Bring It to HAR.
Tell us:
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What are you making?
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What materials are involved?
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How does your process work?
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What's happening today?
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What needs to perform better?
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What does success look like?
We'll start there.
Solutions & Support. Beyond Your Imagination.
Because sometimes the best solution begins with someone willing to take on the challenge.
