Items Tagged with 'assembly'

Swelling temporarily increases the size of tubing or hose ends, making it easier to connect them to the fixtures and other components.

In industrial settings, where “lighter and smaller” is the name of the game and every ounce counts, adhesive joining techniques are increasingly serving as innovation drivers.  

In times of rapidly increasing energy cost, and rolling blackouts and brownouts, energy input and waste disposal per product unit have become big concerns among manufacturers.

Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is low-surface-energy plastic that is very difficult to bond. PTFE exclusively comprises fluorine and carbon atoms with no polar atoms such as oxygen or nitrogen.

I have seen at least one manufacturer advertising a two-component methyl methacrylate (MMA) adhesive product in a cartridge for the bonding of PVC and CPVC pipes. . . .