Author: Alan Duffy

Gluing Stainless Steel

There will be a time when you need to join 'A to B'. Choosing the right glue is a task...

Glass Clear Sealant for Invisible Joints!

The bespoke water clear sealant. We all like clarity...

A Metal Gluing Job?

Structural metal glues are with us now! Gluing metal has never been so easy. Any you know, irrespective of the metal, or...

How To Use A Sealant Primer.

Optomise sealant adhesion. As the most well respected supplier of silicone, polyurethane and MS polymer sealant in Ireland, we are regularly...

Simple Ways To Glue Polystyrene.

Polystyrene gluing tips. One application for which we regularly receive technical enquiries, is in gluing polystyrene. And if you are looking...

Looking For Composite Glue Advice?

  Don't be left behind! Wondering how to glue composite materials? Wondering what is the best glue to use and the best...

The Ideal Glues For Gutter Repair!

Having gutter issues? Our name travels far and wide. Known as the bespoke supplier of glues and sealants for a wide...

Bespoke Glue Service!

The right glue knowledge when and where you need it. We receive glue requests from all over the world, and our...

Parabond Construction Sealant.

The all-round sealant! Exterior mastic sealants are faced with tough conditions. They have to stand up to a wide range of...

Wood Moisture & Wood Gluing.

Do you love your wood? Woodworking is a craft that involves many demanding applications for glues, and as the best known...

Options For Gluing Cast Iron.

Options for gluing Iron Iron, one of the oldest metals known to man and so important, it had a period of...

Gluing PVC Pipe The Easy Way!

The best PVC glue around! PVC plastic can be found everywhere, from gutters to electrical conduit to water pipes, it's possibly...

A Mild Steel Gluing Tip!!

Your guide to obtaining the optimum strength!! For any given glue system, the complete preparation of the materials being bonded is...

How To Optomise Glue Adhesion.

Cleanliness is next to optimum bond strength! As the leading industrial glue manufacturer and supplier in Ireland, our technologists constantly advise...

How To Glue Stainless Steel.

Welding or gluing metal? It has been a busy week for us. An unusual week in that every day, we had...

The All-round Plastic Glue!

The next big thing in plastic glue is already here! Looking for an all-round plastic glue? Want to glue PETG, polyurethane,...

W106 Waterproof Wood Glue.

Looking for a premium quality wood glue? There has been a growing trend in recent years, to offer woodworking shops an...

The Growth Of MS Polymer Mastic Sealants!

Focussing on you! The end of another busy week! What was hot & what is not? As always, our mastic sealants...

Gluing Artificial Grass.

How about an all-weather pitch? Are you planning to lay artificial grass...

Options For Gluing FRP.

Plastic gluing options. Every week, we receive requests for glue for a very wide range of plastics. Once such enquiry which...

Sealing Concrete?

Should priming be your prime consideration? Want to glue concrete or seal a concrete constructing joint? Upon looking at it, concrete may...

Glue Choices For Composite Bonding.

 Experts with composite gluing As the most well known glue supplier in Ireland, we are regularly asked about the best glue...

How Important Is Bond Line Thickness?

Mind the gap! Occasionally, we are asked why the glue line thickness is so important. Glue line thickness? Let me explain...

Innovative Construction Sealants.

How to make construction joints waterproof, is a regularly discussed topic within the construction sector. The combination of the diversity of...

Tips On Degreasing Metal.

How important is solvent cleaning? As the most well known glue manufacturer in Ireland, we constantly give advice on all aspects...

The Future of Polyurethane Sealants in Construction

Future proof polyurethane sealants Polyurethane sealants offer incredible advantages over other types of sealants. The first major advantage, is their ability to...

Contact Adhesive Tips!

The right and wrong's of contact adhesive. Contact adhesives are great! We offer the best range of contact adhesives in Ireland...

Complete Technical Support.

Complete industrial support All over Ireland, there are hundreds or industrial companies, who rely on our industrial products and our technical...

Bonded Composites For Rail Applications.

Weight saving composite glues offering fire protection. With the ever increasing use of composite materials in many areas of manufacturing, Scigrip...

How Do We Improve Surface Adhesion?

Surgically Clean? Not really, but optimum surface preparation is vital to successful gluing. Irrespective of the materials being glued, if the...

Gluing Metal To Metal?

Metal glue choices. Of all of the glue enquiries which we receive, one of the most common is gluing metal to...

New Electronics Grade Silicone.

The silicone for electronics applications. Whether in a turbine or a solar sell, semi-conductors need to work under the most arduous...

Tips On Gluing Acetal Plastic.

Looking to glue Acetal plastic? Acetal...

Gluing GRP With Structural Glue.

Performance Glues. High quality structural glues have a very important role in todays manufacturing environment. In particular, acrylic-based structural adhesives score...

Problem Solving Butyl Tape!

Quality Butyl Tape Are you looking for the best quality butyl  tape in Ireland? Our butyl tape has been specially formulated to...

Structural Adhesive Options

Bespoke structural adhesives. Without doubt, the Scigrip range of structural adhesives are the  most innovative range of adhesives on the market...

Automotive Composite Glue.

Glue For Composite Bonding In today's global manufacturing environment, composite engineering is one of the most important and fastest growing disciplines....

What Are Marine Glue’s?

The Glue Guru looks at marine glues What are marine glues and what makes them special from other types of glue? Any...

Silicone For Electronic Applications.

Bespoke Silicone Resins Room temperature vulcanising (RTV) silicone resins are now an indispensable range of products which find use in coating,...

Foam Structural Adhesive Tapes.

Structural Foam Tapes are very often a misunderstood and unappreciated form of bonding. They are typically regarded as 'lightweights' and...

New Flame Retardant Coating Approved.

A hot enquiry! Fire, something which mankind has both loved and feared since the first beings walked across the earth. Both our...

High Temperature Silicone Sealant.

A multifunctional silicone! Looking for a high temperature silicone sealant and looking for the no-mess way to dispense it? Scigrip RTV851 high...

Slurry Tank Repair.

Looking for a sealant for slurry tank repair? Last week, we had a customer with such a requirement. He had a cylindrical...

Surface Primers For Glues And Sealants.

Is priming a necessity? Are you gluing plastic, gluing metal or gluing glass? If so, is it always necessary to use...

What Is The Strongest Glue?

Super strong glue? As the best known glue company in Ireland, we are often asked 'what is the strongest glue in...

Caravan And Motor Home Repair Systems

Collective knowhow for the Caravan & Leisure Industry W.I Polymers research and development team work on the principle that customer is...

A New Instant Superglue

A novel instant superglue Are you looking for a low viscosity superglue, which bonds rapidly, and can be applied with pinpoint...

What Are Hybrid Sealants?

Hybrid sealants We have all heard about silicone sealant and polyurethane sealant but how familiar are you with hybrid sealants? To explain,...

Gluing Nickel Metal.

Handy hints for gluing  Nickel Nickel, perhaps not the immediate choice when one is asked to name a metal, but over...

Polyurethane Glue

What is polyurethane glue? Single component moisture curing polyurethane glues and sealants, are very interesting products. Upon exposure to moisture, these products...

Gluing Plastic In The Rail Sector

 Developments in glue for plastic Within the composites sector, one industrial area which has benefited from the use of light-weight materials,...

The Use Of Glue In The Packaging Sector

Packaging glue All over Ireland, Glue is used in a very extensive range of paper and card and board gluing jobs. From...

Gluing Polyethylene Plastic.

The optimum glue for polyethylene Designers of plastic components are often encouraged to use certain plastics such as polypropylene. Traditionally, the most...

How to Glue Perspex Acrylic Plastic

Perspex acrylic plastic  glue explained How to glue Perspex...

Using Polyurethane Glue.

The benefits of using our polyurethane glues Polyurethane glue...

Gluing Titanium Metal

Gluing Titanium A few weeks ago, our laboratories received a very interesting enquiry. A major electronics company contacted us looking for...

What is Structural Glue?

Structural Glue What is a structural glue? Many of us have heard about them but do you know what they are? A...

Carbon Fibre Glue

How to Glue Carbon Fibre Carbon fibre is a material which consists of fibres which are approximately 10μ (micro-meters) in diameter....

Glue for Boat Repair.

Gluing rubber in boat construction and repair The water sports sector in Ireland employs many hundreds of people and here at...

Using Weldon Cement for Gluing Acrylic Plastic

Gluing plastic with Weldon Cement Solvent welding acrylic plastic takes place is sign & display companies all over Ireland. Hand in glove...

Gluing Composite with Scigrip SG300.

Gluing Composite in Ireland? Here at W.I Polymers, we are the leaders in composite gluing. Combined with Ireland’s leading team...

Surface Preparation Before Gluing!

Preparing surfaces before gluing So you are ready to start gluing...

Scigrip Structural & Engineering Glue

Scigrip glue for metal and plastic Ireland's leading research based manufacturer and distributor of industrial glue, we are pleased to announce that...

How to Glue Copper

Copper is a reasonably easy metal to glue and if you are in Ireland, and looking for copper glue, either...

Glue for Electronic Applications.

The use of glue in the electronics sector Glue is used in many electronic applications. Take for example, their use in...

What are Contact Adhesives?

Contact Adhesives Contact glues or contact adhesives, they are used in every part of Ireland and we have all heard of...

Gluing CPVC Pipes

We had an interesting application this week. The maintenance department of a major pharmaceutical company contacted us looking for an...

Gluing with Structural Glue

Gluing lightweight materials with Structural Glue Over the past decade, there have been many major advances in structural glue technology. These advances, though...

Adhesives for Medical Device Manufacture

Medical device sector employs thousands of people in Ireland, and as Ireland's most well known research based manufacturer of glues,...

Gluing Polystyrene Foam

Primarily due to the continued growth in constrution in Ireland, the demand for glue and adhesive for polystyrene will undoubtetly...

Gluing & Sealing Glass

Although glass may be considered a problematic material to stick to, our glues, adhesives and sealants for both sealing glass...

Adhesive Tape or Acrylic Glue?

Are you using structural tape or glue in Ireland? If so, what are the benefits of using liquid glues over...

Got a Glue Problem?

If you are looking for Ireland's largest range of industrial glues and sealants, you are at the right place. Thankfully...

Ireland’s Best Range of Industrial Tapes!

Are you using adhesive tape in your manufacturing processes in Ireland? Every year, we sell many thousands of meters of...

Gluing Wood with Epoxy Resins

Everybody in Ireland knows about epoxy glue, but did you know that epoxy glue is great for gluing wood? There...

Gluing Leather ?

Gluing leather with Industrial glue Gluing Leather? What is the best way to glue leather and what is the best leather...

DP452, A New Heat Resistant Insulation Coating

As Irelands largest manufacturer of glue for insulation applications, we are very occasionally faced with unique situations whereby known materials...

Acrylic Glue for Boat Repair

The boat repair market in Ireland has something to celebrate ,with the launch of a new glue. We are happy...

Gluing the Plastic Car Engine ?

As Irelands best known supplier of glue for metal and glue for plastic, we are asked to advise on gluing...

Gluing PVC Pipes & Fittings

Gluing PVC pipes and fittings is a reasonably straight-forward gluing task. With the correct PVC glue, and some surface preparation,...

Gluing EPDM Rubber

Gluing EPDM Rubber with Industrial Glue EPDM...

Packaging Glue Sticks in Ireland

Glue Sticks provide an instant, fast, clean and versatile bond between a myriad of industrial, household and craft materials. There are...

Gluing Polycarbonate

Glue ideas for polycarbonate Polycarbonate plastic & glue for polycarbonate plastic's have evolved hand in hand. First discovered in 1898, polycarbonate...

Gluing Channel Letter Display Signs

With the growth in the economy of Ireland, we expect to see an increasing demand for glues for the sign...

Silicone for Glazing & Cladding Applications

The market for silicone sealant in Ireland, is on the rise. Following recent advances in silicone chemistry, we are please...

Zero Odour Glue for Carpet Tiles

Companies all over Ireland, and further afield, turn to W.I Polymer's adhesives for their often unique properties and the performance...

The In’s & Out’s of PVA Glue

PVA Glue use has a long history in Ireland. First imported in the 1930's, it replaced starch adhesives in the...

Gluing Wood Successfully

Ireland has a very long history of woodworking and wood glue and it is a traditional craft that involves many...

Using Methacrylate Adhesives in the Automotive Sector

The first use of two-component  polyurethane adhesives within the automotive sector, occurred in America in 1967. Since the mid 80's,...

Hi-Bond® Flame Retardant Tapes

As the best known company in Ireland for supplying industrial structural adhesive tapes, very are pleased to introduce to the...

Glues for the Sign & Display Sector

As the economy in Ireland takes a turn for the better, over the past few months,  we have seen an...

Gluing Acrylic Plastic ?

For the sign and display sector in Ireland, acrylic plastic and acrylic glue go hand in glove. Acrylic exhibits glass-like qualities...

Gluing Polypropylene with Scigrip PPX5

Gluing plastics is a major sector in Ireland. There are many hundreds of industrial applications with dozens of plastics. These...

Hi-Bond® Thermally Conductive Tapes

Ireland's best known adhesive tape company are pleased to introduce to manufacturing in Ireland, the range of Hi-Bond® thermally conductive...

Scigrip Structural Adhesives

Following the announcement at Composites Engineering 2014, Scigrip Europe are pleased to announce that they have selected W.I Polymers Ltd...

Scigrip Structural Adhesives

W106 Waterproof Wood Glue

Waterbased wood glue has been around since the early 1930's and continues to be used all over Ireland in the...

Tips on Gluing Aluminium

Gluing and sealing aluminium is a standard industrial practice all over Ireland. But like gluing all metals, there are several...