The success of your business depends on maintaining efficient and cost-effective operations. Did you know there may be many opportunities to increase efficiency and cut costs right on your assembly line? Can-Do Tape offers adhesive material products that can significantly improve your products and processes while improving your bottom line.
Replace Mechanical Fasteners
Over 30 years ago, 3M™ VHB™ Tape introduced engineers and product designers to an unprecedented level of design flexibility and bonding options. Die-cut material assembly with VHB tape is much faster, more consistent, and less costly than screws, bolts, and other types of mechanical fasteners. Adhesive tapes also provide a more permanent and lasting bond than mechanical fasteners. Where bolts or rivets join materials at a single point, high-bonding adhesive tapes distribute the stress load across the entire length of the bonded surface.
Die-cut adhesive foam tape products offer a strong, reliable alternative to mechanical bonds. When correctly installed, in many applications these die-cut adhesive materials are comparable in strength to rivets. Aesthetically, adhesive foam tapes also allow for a smoother look when attaching components. In most joining applications, die-cut adhesive foam tapes have a dynamic shear strength equivalent to one rivet every four inches.
Improve Efficiency with Die-Cut Materials
Assemblies are easier and faster with adhesive die-cut materials. Die-cut adhesive materials with extended liners or pull tabs can greatly improve the time spent on the assembly line. Extended Liners have a non-adhesive backing that is wider than the adhesive which provides an edge to easily grab to remove the liner when needed. A Pull-Tab has a non-adhesive material protruding at the end of a custom cut tape and is designed for smaller die-cut shapes. For many industries, including the automotive, appliance, specialty vehicle industries, die-cut materials with extended liners and pull tabs meet demanding, application-specific requirements for fast, reliable fastening.
Eliminating Liquid Glue
Liquid glue is messy and difficult to apply with a high degree of accuracy and consistency. Adhesive die-cut assembly materials provide a cleaner alternative that is much easier to install. In addition to easier assembly and better efficiency, adhesive die-cut assembly materials will also consistently produce a better-looking product with less waste material.
Reducing Drilling and Welding
The no-tool-required assembly of adhesive die-cut materials means eliminating or reducing costly and time-consuming steps like drilling and welding. In addition to simplifying the assembly line, other benefits include less noise, no broken drill bits, and no hazardous metal fragments. Die-cut material assembly is safer, cleaner, and more accurate than bonding with mechanical methods.