APPLIED Adhesives is North America’s premier adhesives solutions provider.
The Team That Sticks With You. Nobody knows more about adhesives than APPLIED, and our mission is to help educate all of our clients and pass along our extensive knowledge. We are passionate about solving complex challenges with innovative adhesive products and solutions. APPLIED is the industry leader in helping manage costs, reduce waste, and make entire operations run more efficiently.
The Best Keep Getting Better. With world-class adhesive product lines, visionary leadership, unparalleled expertise, and an agile, responsive service team, we’re not happy simply staying put. Our vision is to become the leading custom adhesive solutions provider in North America, and it’s a goal within reach. Every day, we leverage our technical expertise and passion for problem solving for the benefit of our customers and the future of our company.
Legacy of Adhesive Industry Leadership
As North America’s premier adhesives solutions provider, APPLIED Adhesives is home to the most innovative and cost-effective technologies that optimize manufacturing processes, reduce waste, improve process efficiency, and deliver low-cost solutions. Know you’re in good company—the world’s leading and most trusted adhesive and dispensing equipment manufacturers choose APPLIED.
For decades, APPLIED has been a strategic business resource for a wide variety of manufacturing customers. Skip Jewett and Bob Houston founded APPLIED Products in 1971. Starting out as an industrial distributor, APPLIED expanded as an adhesives supplier in 1988. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, APPLIED has grown to become a nationwide manufacturer and supplier of high-quality hot-melt, liquid-based, and specialty adhesives.
APPLIED ensures availability of high-performance industrial adhesives, reliably delivers products on time, and focuses on exceeding customer expectations for:
- End-of-Line Packaging
- Paper Converting
- Tape & Label
- Building Components & Woodworking
- General Assembly
- General Transportation
- Engineering Technologies & Silicones
Technical Capabilities
We have the breadth and depth of expertise to provide a best-in-class adhesives solution optimized to meet your specific needs. Our highly experienced team – consisting of professional Territory Managers, Application Specialists, and ongoing support staff – not only understands each product line intimately but uses a total cost-in-use approach by digging deep into your current process and requirements to understand end-use parameters and challenges. This expertise and our consultative approach provides you with a data-driven competitive advantage – and lower costs.
Scope & Lab Capabilities:
- Substrate analysis
- Bond evaluation
- Instron force testing
- Internal lab & world class supplier lab access
- Bond conditioning
- Joint design consultation
- IOPP/PAFT/SAFT Testing
- Thermal Stability
- Examples of Fiber Tear or Failure Mode Analysis
- Bond Forensics / Troubleshooting
- Limited thermal cycling capability
