The many different, technically demanding requirements that today’s adhesives have to meet, call for a wide range of technologies and raw materials. Find the right adhesive raw material to match your technology

Acrylic dispersions are sold under the well-known Acronal^® brand name. Depending on the use and application technology requirements, a broad range of suitable acrylates for water-based, environmentally friendly adhesive systems is available.

Styrofan^® is a water-based styrene-butadiene dispersion. BASF offers different product grades with specific properties. Styrofan^® is often used in industrial adhesives, such as in paper transfer metallization and EPI wood adhesives. They offer excellent processability. By adding BASF additives, you can easily further adjust viscosity, foamability or wetting properties according to your needs. 

The trend towards water-based systems is also noticeable in the field of polyurethane adhesives. Apart from the ecological aspects, polyurethane dispersions have the advantage that, unlike non-aqueous PU systems, they can be applied in a way that combines high solids content with low viscosity irrespective of the molar mass. The wide adhesion range and the excellent stability values make the polyurethane dispersions of BASF (Luphen^®, Epotal^®, Emuldur^®) the ideal raw material for a variety of demanding adhesive and primer applications. The palette of available dispersions includes amorphous as well as crystallizing polyurethanes that feature many different qualities ranging from compostable, hydrolysis-resistant to sticky and non-sticky.

For several decades BASF has been producing and marketing special, water-soluble polymers that are based on polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). Due to their outstanding properties, PVP and the corresponding copolymers are used for many different technical applications. The products from the Luvitec^® range boast excellent adhesion properties (on paper, glass, metal, skin, textiles, plastic), high initial adhesion, the option of subsequent curing delayed curing, physiological compatibility and unique film creation and melting characteristics. The typical applications are hot-melt adhesives, glue sticks and hydrogel adhesives.

To improve cohesion, adhesion and thermal stability after application, aqueous adhesives can be combined with water-dispersible crosslinking agents. The Basonat^® range sold by BASF includes such systems, which facilitate the development of both aqueous two-component adhesives and the formulation of water-based systems with long pot lives. The products sold under the Basonat^® brand name are polymer crosslinking agents that can easily be dispersed in aqueous acrylate and/or polyurethane dispersions or aqueous polymer solutions.