Find the right tape for your marine applications
Marine adhesive solutions and tapes are integral to building, painting, and maintaining boats of all sizes and shapes, from keel to sail. Depending on the purpose, each tape must withstand the challenges of nautical manufacturing and, ultimately, open waters. It must be waterproof, heat-resistant, or protect against UV light, among other specifications.
We provide various adhesive solutions for marine markets, including market-leading polyethylene (PE) film tapes, specialist cloth tapes, and self-amalgamating tapes. Our extensive portfolio covers identification, sealing and splicing, protection, wrapping, and cocooning applications.
This post offers a glimpse of the specialized marine adhesive solutions available from Adherex.
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Marine Adhesive applications
Laminating Adhesives for Foam & Flooring
When attaching decorative foam components or floor materials to interior or exterior surfaces, it is crucial to use a proven adhesive construction with strong adhesion to ensure a proper long-term bond. Adhesive transfer PSA films and double-sided adhesive tape constructions allow for temporary or permanent applications, making them perfect for the most demanding decorative foam or floor installations. Our marine foam & floor mounting adhesives are built to withstand extreme temperatures and weather and are tailored to meet your application requirements for various foam and flooring substrates. These high-performance adhesive constructions are designed to withstand the harshest environments for the marine industry.
Gasketing
Gaskets allow for a watertight seal with the performance, flexibility, and style you are looking for. Our gaskets are designed for all hardware pieces both above and below the water line. Your unique watercraft begins with great design and choosing the correct high-performance substrates for all your sealing, cushioning, and vibration-dampening applications. Our state-of-the-art capabilities, including a 5-axis water jet cutter, allow us to cut gasketing materials with a high degree of precision and accuracy using a wide range of substrates such as Foam, EPDM, Neoprene, PVC, VHBs, etc.
Painting
When painting exteriors and interiors, achieve crisp lines and borders. Wide masking tapes protect various surfaces from overspray and are designed for easy removal, even after post-oven drying. These marine masking tapes provide the functionality and performance required for painting, maintenance, and repair jobs in nautical construction and servicing.
Mounting of mirrors, panels, and trims
Our double-sided adhesive tapes present a wide range of solutions for enhancing complex boat applications, including installing mirrors, protective or decorative panels, trims, profiles, and various design features.
These boat interior mounting tapes are available in various thicknesses, providing a superior substitute for traditional mechanical fasteners and liquid glues. Suitable for long-term and temporary applications, our marine mounting tapes also fulfill the stringent requirements of yacht fittings.
Electrical
Our extensive selection of tapes is ideal for securing and organizing wires and cables on boats. Safely manage electrical wiring with our comprehensive variety of tapes designed for bundling, mounting, and labeling.
Specifically, in the engine room, our products are engineered to withstand high levels of abrasion. Our tapes are designed to minimize noise, vibration, and harshness (NVH) throughout the vessel’s interior. We provide a wide array of wire harnessing tapes crafted from PET fleece and superior adhesives, meeting international OEM standards for component materials.
Hull preservation and heat shrink tape
Constructed using a synthetic rubber-based pressure-sensitive adhesive, the PE marine heat shrink tape conforms to almost any surface. It establishes a waterproof seal and resists humidity across various weather and climate situations.
UV-protected polyethylene film tape is designed for use in marine shrink wrapping and vapor barrier joint sealing for the storage and transportation of boats. It is also suitable for patching, fixing, bundling, encasing, and sealing tasks on multiple surfaces.
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Marine tape for every application
These applications are just a few of the many needed for marine uses. Specialized tapes are also used for insulation, repairing sailcloth, protecting cabin surfaces, anti-slip applications, and more.
Adherex has decades of experience providing the specialty adhesive solutions needed for the challenges of the nautical industry. Our experts can help you select, design, or customize tape solutions for your specific application.
Get in touch with one of our experts to get started.
