Araldite ® DVD Bonding Adhesives from Huntsman Advanced Materials
High Performance Adhesives for Silver Alloy
Huntsman Advanced Materials has recognised the growing market pressures for cost-effective materials combined with the increasing need for clean and efficient metallisation processes.
This has necessitated the development of alternatives to gold and silicon substrates and for adhesives to meet the electrical, physical and mechanical challenges posed.
Huntsman Advanced Materials’ next generation Silver Alloy Adhesives not only provides the solution to electrolytic corrosion between dissimilar reflective layer materials but goes further to provide you with industry leading performance.
Key features of Huntsman’s core range of DVD Adhesives for Silver Alloy:- Adhesives successfully evaluated by the leading producers of silver alloy semi
reflective materials e.g. Target Technology, Williams and APM
Maintains integrity of electro / mechanical disc properties even after elevated climate testing (80˚C / 95% RH / 96H)
Provides industry leading adhesion to ensure minimal moisture ingress into the disc Compatible with most reflective materials used in the Optical industry today reducing the need for multiple adhesive types
Developed following collaboration with many of the leading DVD line integrators e.g. M2, Alpha Sweden and Steag HamaTech
Araldite DVD Adhesives - Physical properties
XD 4761 XD 4762 XD 4763
Viscosity c. 190 mPas c. 300 mPas c. 550 mPas
Shelf life 1 year 1 year 1 year
DVD equipment Alpha Sweden, M2 Engineering, Steag HamaTech,
suitability Convac Krauss Maffei Panasonic, Singulus,
Tapematic Substrate suitability
Polycarbonate Aluminium Gold Silicon Silver TTP35a TTP40 TTP46
Climate test Passes 80˚C/95%RH/96H Passes 80˚C/95%RH/96H Passes 80˚C/95%RH/96H
Produced by:
Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbH
Klybeckstrasse 200, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland. Tel: +41 61 966 33 33 Fax: +41 61 966 35 19 www.araldite.com
Publication no. A516e - GB 1000/08/05 Printed in Great Britain.
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