Adhesive raw materials

Paper labels in our portfolio provide extensive flexibility encompassing cold temperature, general purpose, recyclable, permanent, and removable adhesive options.

Filmic labels offer excellent clarity, sustainability, and water whitening resistance, while also enabling dimensional stability, low VOC, smoothness, anchorage to low surface energy (LSE) substrates, chemical and moisture resistance, and wettability.

Our adhesive portfolio offers wide versatility of applications depending on the type of adhesive that you are looking for. Specialty tapes have a greater focus on sustainability while still offering key performance attributes to its respective utilizations.

Aside from the increasing sustainability measures, these products have high coat weight, high performance, fast drying, and anchorage to a wide variety of substrates. BASF UV hotmelt and water-based technologies can often replace conventional solvent-based adhesives.

BASF’s adhesives for graphic applications offer a more sustainable solution compared to solvent technologies. Our portfolio offers key performance attributes critical to the graphics industry such as water whitening resistance, plasticizer migration resistance, UV resistance, and low shrinkage.

Robotically applied sprayable acoustic coatings satisfy light-weighting goals, reduced labor costs, and are overall the most cost-effective vehicle damping treatment. BASF’s portfolio is a popular choice in the automotive space, as well as in acoustic treatment applications for appliances, home construction, flooring, and more.

BASF water-based laminating adhesives are focused on sustainability and are particularly suitable for recyclable or compostable packaging constructions. They are appropriate for both rigid and flexible packaging applications, requiring high green yield strength, and can be formulated further to meet specific customer needs. Compostable grades are suitable for compostable films such as PLA, PBA, paper, cellophane, EcoFlex, and Ecovio.

BASF technical lamination adhesives are appropriate for applications outside of printing and packaging, requiring high heat resistance, high green strength, and high cohesion. Typical applications include automotive, furniture, footwear, and contact/foam bonding adhesives, and substrates such as wood, metal, glass, leather, foil, and rubber.