Technical Textiles
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Footwear
As a global industry innovator with superior expertise and more than 50 years of experience in the footwear industry, our footwear adhesive solutions offer more than just high performance.
H.B. Fuller offers innovation, supply assurance, technical expertise, cost-saving opportunities and a competitive advantage.
Connecting Innovative Adhesives with Tomorrow’s Footwear Needs
To bring high-performance footwear products to market, you need a partner that offers global R&D capabilities and problem-solving power; a partner that can help deliver the products your customers want and the end-to-end support your business needs. Whether you are manufacturing heavy boots, fashion, leather products, or orthopedic and sports shoes, you can rely on the performance of H.B. Fuller’s footwear adhesive solutions.
Innovation
Consumers demand attractive, protective and durable footwear, and H.B. Fuller's shoe adhesive innovations are designed to deliver. We understand what’s important to footwear manufacturers, and we know what regulations may change production requirements and what international footwear research and certification boards expect. We enable our customers to manufacture footwear products in a safe, high-performing and sustainable environment in order to deliver end-use products that meet ever-changing industry expectations.
Global Supply
Our global supply chain is focused on securing raw material supplies at the best value for all of the various technology bases to provide ongoing supply assurance for our customers. We have a global presence, local expertise, and we connect innovative shoe adhesives with tomorrow’s footwear needs.
Technical Expertise
Our team of technical experts support customers in optimizing the value gained from using our footwear adhesive solutions. Our superior industry knowledge and world-class technical service delivery model is an important part of the H.B. Fuller package. Partnering with us will help your business grow.
Cost-Saving Opportunities
Our superior technical expertise adds measurable value to your manufacturing processes from start to finish and beyond in terms of improving speed-to-market, helping to lower cost-in-use, and increasing efficiency and production output. We connect your business with a competitive edge.
Competitive Advantage
With H.B. Fuller’s technical expertise and global network, you have a reliable and trustworthy partner footwear adhesive that will work with you to stay ahead of new trends and develop confidential innovations that set you apart from your competition – locally, regionally or globally.
Our Commitment to the Footwear Industry
We are passionate about helping footwear customers create new solutions by making lighter, better fitting, safer, and more robust products a reality. Our innovative and extensive shoe adhesive technology range provides reliable solutions for our customers, including supply flexibility, performance in demanding applications, technical support, and reduced cost-in-use.
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Sportswear – Contract & WorkwearH.B. Fuller adhesives are typically used in the multilayer lamination of functional fabrics, breathable membranes, and linings for technical clothing, like jackets. hot melt moisture cure adhesives, applied by dot coating techniques, is recognized as the best lamination solution to achieve the highest washing resistance with an adhesive weight as low as possible to keep the garments breathable and soft.
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LingerieFor the most delicate of clothing, intimate apparel, only the best lingerie adhesives will suit. Molded cups and seamless bras are made from fabric-to-fabric complexes or fabric-spacer-fabric laminates. H.B. Fuller hot melt moisture cure adhesives are designed to ensure the best bonding after the cup heat-molding process while maintaining softness to make the bra comfortable to wear.
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Home TextileHome textiles include laminations for mattress covers and upholstery on one side and mattress ticking on the other side. Mattress protection has a cotton fabric top sheet laminated with a polyolefin or a polyurethane membrane. H.B. Fuller hot melt moisture cure adhesives are formulated to reach the requested washing resistance with the lowest coating weight. Used in upholstery are fabric-to-fabric and fabric-to-foam complexes also laminated with H.B. Fuller hot melt moisture cure adhesives. For ticking, we offer a metallocene hot melt.
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Medical LaminationPersonal protection equipment (PPE) forms a barrier between an individual and airborne debris. Adhesives are a preferred method for bonding and sealing PPE because they form a reliable seal without puncturing the substrates.
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Medical Drapes, Gowns, and MasksDisposable surgical gowns are assembled by laminating two nonwoven pieces to both sides of a barrier film. Surgical face masks require adhesive solutions for strap attachment, mask forming, and fabric lamination. Surgical drapes are assembled by attaching typical components such as nonwoven anesthesia screen, poly arm covers, and nonwoven main panel using adhesives.
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Face Shield AssemblyTypical face shield assembly involves bonding a polycarbonate or polyester (PET) film to a foam.
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Protective Gear Assembly
Adhesives in protective gear often bonds materials and also seals joints to prevent contamination. We offer many solutions for medical protective gear bonding and sealing applications:
- Face mask lens bonding and sealing
- Hose attachment bonding
- Protective garment seam sealing
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AbrasivesH.B. Fuller offers a range of solutions for the production of sandpaper, including hot melt moisture cure adhesives for the paper side lamination, water-based pressure sensitive adhesives coated on the back side of sandpaper so it can stick to a rubber-plated sanding machine, and styrene acrylic copolymer designed to improve the urea formaldehyde resins used to bond grids onto paper. Our product range also includes solvent based adhesives to close endless belts and cyanoacrylates to bond adapters onto mini-sanding materials.
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Vapor BarrierVapor barriers create windproof roofs and help prevent air and humidity from entering homes, especially in severe weather conditions. For laminated roofing underlays, Swift®lock 6801 and Swift®lock 6811 raise the bar in long-term aging resistance.