Industrial Wood Adhesives: Adhering to Precision

Wood adhesives are a type of substance used in wood bonding operations to adhere substrates together. While most commonly thought of for wood-to-wood bonding, these adhesives can also be formulated to bond wood to an array of materials including laminates, metals and fabrics. Since our founding in 1935 with a liquid, ready-to-use hide glue for fine furniture manufacturers, Franklin International has been a leader in crafting adhesive solutions to meet the unique needs of the industry.

Franklin A&P offers a diverse portfolio of adhesive technologies, each with tailored processing and performance benefits.

Types of Wood Adhesive Technologies Produced by Franklin A&P

While other technologies are used in the marketplace, Franklin A&P focuses our developments in five core technologies to address customer need for high performance and reliability. Our diverse portfolio of products allows us to tailor formulas to each customer’s unique manufacturing specification.

• Aliphatic Resins Emulsion Polymer Isocyanates (EPIs)
• Water-Based Poly Vinyl Acetates (PVAs)
• Cross-Linked Poly Vinyl Acetates (XL-PVAs)
• 2 Component Cross-Linked Poly Vinyl Acetates (2pt XL-PVAs)

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Connect with one of our technical experts or browse our Product Search Page for information on which technology best supports your application.

Franklin consistently invests in resources to pioneer cutting-edge technologies for expanding applications and performance capabilities. From ideation to customer implementation, our on-site product development team works through a 3-phase approach to continue to meet the needs of the ever-changing global market.

Our Approach to Product Development

A quest for innovative performance drives the product development process at Franklin A&P. Our experienced chemists continually advance new formulas to bring cutting-edge technologies that offer solutions to top customers in the wood assembly space.

• Phase 1: Discover - Understand intricate processing and performance requirements, ensuring compliance with new regulations and standards.
• Phase 2: Develop - Design the base polymer + formulation package to craft adhesive technology that uniquely matches industry performance demands.
• Phase 3: Deploy - Optimize compatibility with a range of industry equipment, ensuring seamless integration with customers’ existing infrastructure.

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Learn more about Franklin International’s Research & Development initiatives by visiting our corporate site.

Setting the Standard for Performance

When developing and testing formulated adhesives, our chemists and technicians also note designated or emerging regulatory guidelines, performance capabilities, manufacturing methods, and industry standards for each adhesive.

Each of these considerations are unique and offer new perspectives to how we drive innovation:

Regulatory Guidelines for adhesives address their ingredients and potential impacts on the environment, manufacturers, and users. General provisions can include callouts to no added formaldehyde (NAF), no or low volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and the use of regionally regulated non-hazardous chemicals.  

Franklin strives to offer products that meet the needs of our customers. Product fitness should be confirmed by the customer prior to use. Reach out to our technical service team for regulatory and performance questions.

Performance Capabilities highlight key product features that range from traits during manufacturing operations to how the adhesive performs in an end-use consumer product. Examples of these key product features include water resistance, heat resistance, curing qualities, open and working times, substrate capabilities, glue line color, and manufacturing specifications.

Manufacturing Methods are how the wood is bonded to another substrate. Franklin A&P has set out to help manufacturers troubleshoot their operation with guides for common methods such as hot pressing, cold pressing, radio frequency, and finger joint gluing.

Industry Standards are a set of requirements largely adopted within an industry to measure a product’s ability and fitness for use. Examples of organizing bodies heavily involved with the adhesives industry and the wood manufacturing market include:

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Types of Applications:  

• Assembly
• Edge & Face Gluing  
• Finger Jointing  
• Laminating

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Explore Markets:

• Flooring & Plywood
• Furniture & Subcomponents
• Cabinets  
• Panel Lamination  
• SIPs & Structural  
• Window & Doors‍

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Browse High-Performance Product Lines:

• Advantage - Highly water-resistant products for indoor and outdoor applications.
• Assembly - Assembled line for applications including tongue and groove, doweling, mortise and tenon and dovetail.
• Doorbond - Water-based PVAs with superior water and heat resistance.
• Laminating - Crafted technologies specific for the needs of panel laminators.
• Multibond - High-performance cross-linking PVA adhesives.
• ReacTITE - Emulsion polymer isocyanate (EPI) and polyurethane products for rigorous water and heat resistance.
• Titebond - Engineered aliphatics for fine furniture, musical instrument, and cabinet manufacturers.

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Wood Adhesives with International Reach

Manufacturers in over 60 countries choose our superior wood adhesives for their exceptional performance and quality. With decades of expertise, our products consistently meet and exceed regional regulatory standards. Trusted for delivering practical, hardworking solutions, our adhesives address real needs on the plant floor and beyond, ensuring compliance and driving operational success. Browse our select International Wood Adhesive Product Offerings here.

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Our team of adhesive experts are at the ready to answer your questions. Contact our technical service team or submit a request for more information.

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Franklin Adhesives & Polymers is a division of Franklin International.

About Franklin International: Established in 1935, Franklin International is among the largest privately held manufacturers of adhesives and sealants in the U.S. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, the company maintains multiple manufacturing and distribution locations in the U.S. and a plant in Guangzhou, China to serve the Pacific Rim effectively. The company maintains two divisions: Franklin Adhesives & Polymers provides pressure-sensitive adhesives for labels, tapes and graphics applications, and adhesives for wood assembly markets, and the Construction Division manufactures Titebond® wood glues, construction adhesives, sealants and flooring products.