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Innovation That is Connecting What Matters™

Advanced Adhesives & Sealants for a Changing World

H.B. Fuller is the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world. Guided by our mission of Connecting What Matters™, we innovate to unite people, processes, and products, helping our customers solve complex bonding and sealing challenges and address the world’s most pressing needs.

For more than 135 years, we’ve built enduring partnerships and invested in the long-term success of our customers and suppliers. Today, our technologies are embedded in nearly every type of finished product, from electronics and building materials to medical devices, packaging, and filtration systems, and are improving how products perform and how industries accelerate sustainability, and more.

Innovation at Scale: R&D that Propels Growth

Innovation isn’t a department at H.B. Fuller. It’s a value infused throughout the company, and it’s how we grow, how we serve, and how we win. With dozens of Technology Centers of Excellence and a world-class innovation team, we deliver new products annually across the adhesive and sealant value chain.

This is difference-making innovation designed to help customers launch faster, qualify sooner, and scale more confidently, supported by our global reach and local technical expertise.

Whether you need structural adhesives, flexible sealants, or custom-formulated bonding solutions,  or advanced medical solutions, our teams work side-by-side with yours to achieve your goals, whether they are about improving performance, reaching compliance, achieving large-scale manufacturability, and more.

Our market segment experts bring customer-driven innovation, deep industry trend insights, and agile go-to-market strategies, so your teams can move from concept to commercialization with ease and confidence.

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Sustainable Innovation That Improves Lives

Sustainability is a strategic imperative that is embedded in our culture, innovation, and operations. We apply our global scale and collaborative mindset to develop products and practices that benefit our people, products, and planet.

Examples of sustainable product innovation:

• Millennium PG-1 EF ECO2: a sprayable roofing adhesive using naturally occuring gases to reduce environmental impact
• Swift® melt 1850: bio-based adhesive supporting recyclable e-commerce packaging
• Earthic™: certified adhesives that enable global PET recycling
• Thermonex®: water-based adhesive for EV interiors, used by leading OEMs

From low-VOC and water-based adhesives to recyclable-ready packaging adhesives and responsibly engineered sealants, we help customers meet their performance needs while advancing sustainability goals.

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Solution-Focused Products for Modern Manufacturing

Products are evolving to be lighter, thinner, smarter, and more sustainable. Our technologies help you keep pace with adhesive and sealant solutions engineered to make finished goods:

• Cleaner (reduced waste, improved line efficiency)
• Faster (speed-to-market and throughput improvements)
• Greener (sustainable, bio-based, and recyclable-ready innovations)
• Lighter & stronger (high-performance bonding with optimized material use)
• Safer (responsible innovation and dependable quality)

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • Do you provide custom-formulated adhesive and sealant solutions?

    Yes. Many of our solutions are tailored to specific customer requirements, such as substrate compatibility, line speed, cure profile, temperature resistance, and regulatory needs, so you can optimize performance and manufacturability. Contact us for more information.

  • How do you help customers choose the right adhesive or sealant for their application?

    We collaborate with customers through technical consultation, application engineering, and testing support. Our teams evaluate materials, operating conditions, and end-use demands to recommend the best-fit technology, whether hot melt, water-based, urethane, epoxy, cyanoacrylate, solventless, or sealant systems.

  • What industries do your innovations serve most frequently?

    Our adhesive and sealant innovations support a wide range of industries, including packaging, construction/building materials, automotive and mobility, electronics, medical devices, filtration,  hygiene, and more, and help  improve product safety, durability, efficiency, and sustainability. View our markets here.

  • How do your adhesives support recyclable and sustainable packaging?

    We develop adhesive technologies that are designed to work with evolving packaging formats, including recyclable materials and e-commerce packaging. This includes solutions that can support fiber-based packaging, reduce material usage, and enable compatibility with recycling streams where applicable.

  • What does “responsible innovation” mean when you develop adhesives and sealants?

    Responsible innovation means developing products with performance and safety in mind while also considering environmental impact and compliance. This can include designing for lower emissions (such as low-VOC or water-based systems), improving energy efficiency in manufacturing,  supporting circularity through recycling-enabled solutions, and more.

  • How do you ensure consistent quality and performance across global production?

    We combine robust quality systems with supply chain excellence, technical service, and application support to help ensure consistent product performance, whether our customers manufacture in one facility or across multiple regions.

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