Franklin Connections Blog

• Kudos to Our Lab on This Breakthrough Adhesive Technology

  Aug-13-2014 | Comments: 1 | Posted In: | Posted By: Todd Hunt
  

  We want to give credit where it’s due: Everyone in the R&D lab who worked on the new Covinax 234-01, step into the limelight and take a bow for developing an incredible pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) that is sure to open some new possibilities for customers that seek this exceptional combination of performance characteristics.(...) <read more>

• McClure Tables: The Bond Beyond Glue

  Jul-22-2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted In: | Posted By: Abbe Raabe
  

  We just make the adhesives. But we are gratified by the products our customers create using them. Take McClure Tables, a Grand Rapids-based maker of handcrafted shuffleboard tables. Owners Todd and Judy McClure produce a couple of hundred tables (and (...) <read more>

• Forecasted New Technology Spanning the Next 10 Years

  Jun-10-2014 | Comments: 0 | Posted In: | Posted By: Erin Wolford, Flexible Packaging Magazine
  

  A newly released report from research firm Smithers Pira brings an interesting angle to the flexible packaging and labeling sector. There will be 5 “disruptive technologies” in the packaging sector by 2023. These include: (...) <read more>

• Made in the USA

  Dec-12-2012 | Comments: 4 | Posted In: | Posted By: Don McCloskey
  

  The Great Recession might have produced a new generation of bargain hunters. Yet, however price-conscious, people have continued to prefer – and purchase – goods bearing the “Made in the USA” labels. These goods might have costs more than their counterparts made in China or elsewhere; however, people saw the U.S.A.-made products as higher quality and, therefore, the better value.(...) <read more>

• One Adhesive Does NOT Fit All

  Nov-26-2012 | Comments: 4 | Posted In: | Posted By: Marketing Admin
  

  Ask some manufactures what type of glue they use to assemble wood products, and they’ll casually respond, “Oh, the white stuff” or “yellow wood glue.” Such responses can exasperate those of us in the adhesives business. Wood glues are much more complex than that. A number of adhesives manufacturers focus on producing a full range of wood adhesives to enable customers to better meet the requirements of particular applications.(...) <read more>