Adhesive Solutions  


Adhesive technologies play a vital role in modern manufacturing, enabling strong, reliable, and efficient bonding solutions across a wide range of industries and applications. From packaging, automotive, construction, and woodworking to textiles and consumer goods, advanced adhesive systems are designed to meet growing demands for performance, sustainability, durability, and process efficiency. By combining innovative polymers, functional additives, and specialized formulations, today’s adhesive solutions support both high-performance applications and evolving environmental requirements.

Bjørn Thorsen’s portfolio for adhesive solutions includes technologies for hot-melt adhesives and HMPUR systems, polymers for solvent-based adhesives and coating applications, water-based dispersions, bio based and circular materials, as well as textile and heat transfer solutions. These versatile materials are developed to enhance adhesion, flexibility, thermal resistance, processing stability, and end product quality, helping manufacturers create efficient, durable, and sustainable bonding solutions tailored to their specific application needs.

TPU for Solvent-based & Hot-Melt Adhesives

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Polymer Based Copolyester & Copolyamides

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Plastomers, Elastomers & EVA for Adhesive Solutions

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Textile & Heat Transfer Solutions

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TPU for Solvent-based & Hot-Melt Adhesives

TPU for Solvent-based and Hot-Melt Adhesives from Lubrizol
Lubrizol's TPU portfolio delivers high-performance adhesive solutions for both hot-melt and solvent-based applications.

Pearlbond® TPU

Lubrizol’s Pearlbond® TPU portfolio includes high-performance hot-melt adhesive solutions designed to deliver strong and durable bonding performance across demanding applications. These thermoplastic polyurethane-based materials combine high bond strength with softness, flexibility, and long-term durability, while also offering excellent adhesion to challenging substrates such as plastics, textiles, and foams. Thanks to their good heat resistance and controlled crystallization behavior, Pearlbond TPU grades enable optimized processing and reliable performance in applications including footwear lamination, automotive interiors, technical textiles, composites, and specialty assembly solutions. In addition, Pearlbond TPU materials are widely used as key ingredients in reactive hot-melt adhesive systems, supporting advanced bonding technologies that require both flexibility and structural strength.

Pearlstick®TPU

For solvent-based adhesive and coating applications, Lubrizol offers Pearlstick® TPU grades specifically engineered for dissolution in solvent systems. These resins provide excellent film formation, high elasticity, and strong adhesion to a broad range of substrates, while also delivering good resistance to abrasion, oils, and chemicals. With controlled viscosity properties that support efficient coating and impregnation processes, Pearlstick TPU solutions are ideal for textiles, synthetic leather, automotive interiors, flexible films, and industrial laminations where softness, flexibility, durability, and long-lasting performance are essential.

Polymer Based Copolyester & Copolyamides

Copolyester and Copolyamides from EMS-Griltech
Thermoplastic hot melt adhesives are meant for technical and textile bonding applications. The Griltex® portfolio from EMS-Griltech includes polymers based on copolyamides (CoPA) and copolyesters (CoPES) with wide range of melting temperatures, viscosities and emission levels. The materials are available in various powder fractions as well as in pellet form and in suspensions.

EMS Griltex® COPA copolyamide

EMS Griltex® COPA copolyamide hot-melt adhesives are high-performance bonding solutions developed for applications requiring excellent adhesion, thermal resistance, and long-term durability. These materials provide strong adhesion to polar substrates while offering very good resistance to heat, chemicals, and aging. Thanks to their high cohesive strength after bonding, Griltex COPA grades are widely used in textile lamination, automotive interiors, filtration media, technical fabrics, and industrial bonding applications where reliable performance under demanding conditions is essential.

EMS Griltex® COPES copolyester

EMS Griltex® COPES copolyester hot-melt adhesives are designed to combine high flexibility with excellent mechanical strength and elasticity. Featuring low activation temperatures and strong adhesion to textiles and polymer films, these materials also deliver good resistance to washing and aging, making them ideal for durable and flexible bonding applications. Griltex COPES solutions are commonly used in apparel lamination, functional and automotive textiles, as well as multilayer structures where softness, flexibility, comfort, and long-term wash durability are key performance requirements.

Plastomers, Elastomers & EVA for Adhesive Solutions

Plastomers, Elastomers & EVA for Adhesive
Solutions from Borealis
Borealis offers a versatile portfolio of Queo™ plastomers and elastomers, as well as EVA (ethylene-vinyl acetate) materials developed to meet the demanding requirements of modern adhesive applications. These advanced polymer solutions combine excellent flexibility, softness, adhesion performance, and processability, making them ideal for use in hot-melt adhesives, pressure-sensitive adhesives, sealants, and HMPUR systems.

Strong Bonding Performance

Designed to deliver strong bonding performance across a wide range of substrates, Borealis materials help improve tack, cohesion, thermal resistance, and low temperature flexibility while supporting efficient processing and formulation stability.

Mechanical and Rheological Properties

The materials' balanced mechanical and rheological properties make them suitable for applications in packaging, hygiene products, woodworking, automotive, textiles, and construction. With solutions tailored for both high-performance and sustainable adhesive systems, these polymers enable manufacturers to create reliable, durable, and application-specific bonding technologies.

Textile & Heat Transfer Solutions

Textile & Heat Transfer Solutions from DST
Digital Serigraphic Technologies (DST) is a proprietary brand by Bjørn Thorsen which offers advanced textile and heat transfer solutions designed for digital, hybrid, and traditional screen-printing applications in apparel and textile decoration.

Adhesive Technologies

DST's adhesive technologies play a central role in achieving reliable textile bonding and transfer performance. The portfolio includes TPU-, copolyester-, and copolyamide-based powder adhesives, as well as printable liquid adhesives that provide excellent flexibility, stretchability, adhesion, and durability across a wide range of textile substrates. Printable TPU-based adhesives offer high elasticity and shape-memory properties for flexible garments, while powder adhesives enable soft-touch transfers and low temperature application processing.

Additives and Crosslinking Technologies

Combined with specialized additives and crosslinking technologies that enhance elasticity, wash resistance, and durability, DST solutions help manufacturers create premium textile decorations and heat transfer applications with optimized performance, process efficiency, and sustainability.

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Quenti Le Piouff

Sales & Marketing Director, Advanced Polymer Solutions

qlp@bjorn-thorsen.com
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