The FAST Exhibition is aimed at design engineers looking for fastening and bonding solutions and on the Scott Bader stand visitors were able to view the latest extended range of 10:1 and 1:1 ratio Crestabond methacrylate based primer-less structural adhesives.
These adhesives are suitable for bonding a wide range of popular engineering material substrates including carbon and glass fibre reinforced composites, stainless steel, aluminium, cold rolled and galvanised metals, ABS, acrylic and polycarbonate.All Crestabond products provide excellent adhesion strength, toughness, fatigue and impact resistance across this wide range of substrates, yet require little if any surface preparation, the company claims.
Two new black grades that were recently added to the Crestabond range were featured on the stand. These grades were specifically developed by Scott Bader in response to growing customer demand, especially from fabricators bonding black pigmented ABS and carbon fibre composite components where pleasing aesthetics and a very high finish quality is also critical, not just a lighter weight design: this is the case for racing and high performance cars, electric vehicles, racing yachts and sports equipment.
Stand visitors were also able to ask about suitable applications and obtain technical information about the urethane acrylate based adhesives, which have been used extensively for over 35 years for demanding marine, transportation and building applications for structurally bonding FRP composites, wood, aluminium and stainless steel.
Scott Bader’s ranges have been developed in-house to give design engineers and manufacturers reliable, high performance options for structural bonding and gap-filling, the company says.And all adhesive grades are extensively tested and proven in use by leading OEMs around the world.
