Posted to News on 21st Apr 2021, 09:00
Bondloc announces new initiative
Bondloc says it is challenging the status quo in the industrial adhesive market by launching its first National advertising campaign, Lets Stick Together. The company aims to promote unity and support for UK OEMs, suppliers and distributors, reinforcing what it sees as the current social and economic climate as the UK exits Europe and continues dealing with the global COVID pandemic
Based in Worcestershire, Bondloc has manufactured and supplied adhesives and sealants to the industrial, engineering and automotive sectors for more than 28 years. The privately owned company is a success story in many ways, enjoys an international distribution network and has hard-won product approvals from a number of blue-chip OEMs including JCB, Black & Decker, Honda, Bosch, Bombardier and Princess Yachts. In all, Bondloc offers more than 150 adhesive formulations and over 300 active SKU’s sold across 32 countries. The product portfolio includes a wide range of adhesive chemistries including anaerobic, cyanoacrylates, sealants and structural epoxies, PU’s and MMA’s.
Warren Wilkinson, managing director of Bondloc says: “Our focus continues to be within the engineering market, with our metal bonding anaerobic products used extensively in this sector. We have an established network of distributors with core competencies within pneumatics, seals, bearings, transmission, pumps and gearboxes, and we continue to supply and support many OEMs directly.”
With continued pressure around sustainability and manufacturers investing in greener and more fuel-efficient solutions, the overall demand for high-performance adhesives to bond synthetic materials is increasing. The evolution of new substrates and composites coming onto the market is also spurring additional technical challenges says Bondloc.
Warren continues: “Traditionally, we’ve supplied structural adhesives for carbon fibre bonding to F1 motorsports, but it now has wider applications across the automotive, construction, aerospace, wind turbine, marine and military sectors. Distributors and OEM’s need to be able to work closely with their suppliers to tackle production challenges surrounding new and sometimes complex substrates together with increasing processing costs. Having in-house production means we have the flexibility to tweak our formulations and bespoke manufacture products to the customer’s exact requirements”.
Wilkinson points out that many of Bondloc’s key successes have been through technical support and the training of its distributors as well as end-users. Where specific adhesive brands are already defined on production drawings, he states that the Bondloc technical team fully supports the switching process. The company has ISO 9001:2015 to underpin customer confidence in Bondloc’s quality systems.
Bondloc confirms that an active environmental contribution remains key to the ethos of the business. Recycling programmes, plastic packaging reduction initiatives, reductions in the use of hazardous chemicals and plans to extend the Safer Product range of non-hazardous anaerobic products across the next 12 months are amongst its more prominent initiatives.
