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Printing, Padding & Bookbinding
Supporting commercial printers, bookbinders, and finishing operations with industry-leading water-based and hot melt adhesive solutions that improve production efficiency, product quality, and dependable performance across graphic arts applications.

For decades, HAR has been a trusted manufacturer of water-based padding compounds and specialty graphic arts adhesives supplied through paper merchants, printing distributors, and packaging partners across North America. We also support commercial bookbinders with high-performance hot melt adhesives for perfect binding, case binding, and other demanding binding applications. Whether you're producing notepads, business forms, books, or specialty printed products, we combine proven adhesive technologies with responsive technical support to help you achieve consistent, dependable results.
Whether you're producing padded products, specialty printed materials, or commercial books, we'd welcome the opportunity to discuss your application and recommend the adhesive solution best suited for your operation.
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






