Water-Based
Ward Adhesives offers a full line of water-based adhesives that include resins, dextrins and emulsions. Whether your adhesive application system extrudes, sprays or roll-applies, we've got the right viscosity and water-based polymer to bond your materials. From label lap to corrugate lap to laminating, we've got you covered for all adhesive applications for water-based bonded substrates.
Some applications are challenging and some are not. But whatever the application, manufacturing process, substrate or end use, Ward will find the water-based adhesive that performs.
| Base Polymer Platform for Water Based Adhesive Formulation | ||
| Base Polymer | Key Attributes | Basic Applications |
|---|---|---|
| Dextrin | Low Cost | Paper to Paper Laminations |
| PVA | Low Residual Monomer Levels, Water Soluble | Book Binding, Bag Manufacturing, Wood Assembly, Envelopes |
| VAE | Good Wet Tack, Fast Speed of Set | Lap Paste for Cans/Bottles, Glue Lap for Corrugated |
| VAA | Excellent Adhesion to Difficult Substrates | Labeling, Tapes |
