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Pressure sensitive tapes absorb shock, flexing

A M+C Specialties product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team Apr 20, 2007

Pressure sensitive tapes for medical device assembly absorb shock and flexing, offering long-term solutions against impact, vibration, gravity and thermal expansion/contraction.

M and C Specialties Co, a global provider of pressure sensitive converting solutions, offers its high quality 3M VHB Tapes, designed to permanently bond and seal a variety of metals, plastics and other surfaces during medical device assembly, resulting in increased productivity, exceptional strength, extensive durability and improved product appearance.

The 3M VHB Tapes for medical device assembly contain a viscoelasticity that absorbs shock and flexing, offering long-term solutions against impact, vibration, gravity and thermal expansion/contraction.

These durable tapes are able to bond and seal metal and most plastics, including hard-to-bond polycarbonate.

M and C Specialties' offers these tapes in a variety of forms, including spooled rolls and die cutting for ultimate precision, with unique converting abilities that deliver customized products and packaging for the medical device industry.

These tapes are easy to apply and user-friendly, bonding on contact without the need for drying time or fixturing, and do not require expensive application equipment, making them both low-maintenance and economical.

The 3M VHB Tapes bond with a high-holding strength useful for static and dynamic loads, while distributing stress evenly over large areas.

Offering an attractive, virtually invisibly appearance, these tapes fasten while keeping surfaces smooth and clean, easily joining a variety of materials, even dissimilar ones, resulting in high-impact, sturdy visual combinations.

M and C Specialties can accommodate all its customer's needs, with customized rolls and precision die-cutting, and when applicable, an innovative spooling technique.

The use of spooling during the adhesive application manufacturing process decreases line stoppage during the change of tape rolls, resulting in increased product efficiency.

M and C's industry-renowned conversion abilities, combined with advanced tape technologies, offer customers the best performing, most cost-effective solutions available, with options that drive down manufacturing costs.

* About M and C Specialties Company - M and C Specialties Company, established in 1945, is a world class converter of pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) and non-PSA components.

With approximately 1,000 employees in North America, the European Union (EU), and Asia, M and C provides single-sided and double-sided adhesive laminations, subassemblies, and tapes.

M and C provides custom converting solutions to a variety of OEMs, tier-level suppliers, and distributors involved in the technology, healthcare and transportation markets.

M and C is a preferred converter of 3M.

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