Lord launches polyurethane based adhesive

Lord has around 3,100 employees in 26 countries and operates 19 manufacturing facilities and 10 R&D centres worldwide, with world headquarters in Cary, NC. Lord earnestly encourages STEM education and many other community engagement initiatives. Lord has been operating in Brazil since 1972, based in a factory located in Jundiaí, São Paulo. In November the company will present its latest development at the Feiplar Composites show, the main composites industry trade fair in Latin America.

For more than 90 years, Lord has worked in collaboration with its customers to provide innovative oil and gas, aerospace, defence, automotive and industrial solutions. Lord is a diversified technology and manufacturing company developing adhesives, coatings, motion management devices, and sensing technologies to reduce risk and improve product performance.

In comparison to conventional polyurethane adhesives, the new product is said to maintain the same open time but reduce the handling time from 2h30 to 45 minutes. Andrios de Souza, Lord’s sales supervisor said tha, “Due to the much faster cure curve, LORD Fusor 2001/2003 NG provides a considerable increase in productivity. ”This characteristic meets one of the main requests of the automakers, the goal of the company’s new adhesive. The manufacturer says that, “It is the ideal product for bonding bumpers, ceilings and panels, among other composites parts present in buses, trucks and agricultural vehicles.”

From the point of view of application, Lord Fusor 2001/2003 NG is identical to other polyurethane based adhesives produced by Lord. The company explained that, “It has the same viscosity as the previous generation. Thus, the user does not have to make any changes to use this new formulation.”

A Brazilian subsidiary of the North American Lord Corporation, a specialist in the development of structural adhesives and high-performance coatings, Lord is introducing the Fusor 2001/2003 NG polyurethane-based adhesive suitable for bonding composites parts produced at high production rates.