Gluing Systems — Finding Sticky Situations

Valco now also boasts the OT-100 terminal with CPU and glue supply unit for fast, accurate gluing and quality assurance management. The OT-100 can accept and integrate up to 16 different glue valves and sensors for multiple and specific applications.

Glue types and substrates are the first considerations for choosing a system, notes Steve Wendell, regional sales manager for GMS. A number of glues fall into either the cold or hotmelt category; cold glues are generally more user-friendly and relatively inexpensive while certain applications tend to favor using hotmelt, such as remoistenable glue.