As a company who works with chemicals on a daily basis, Fielco Adhesives is very proud of our green operating philosophy and our ability to provide green adhesives such as those listed below.
At Fielco, we always take our environmental impact into account. Depending on your needs, we may recommend products such as UV formulations to minimize this impact. When formulating new products, we always look to use renewable raw materials and choose raw materials that minimize environmental impact.
We aim to help our clients achieve the same results with a 1-part epoxy to reduce the dependence on corrosive materials that 2-part epoxies often require. We also instruct our clients on how to handle adhesive products safely. As a proactive measure to reduce each client’s carbon footprint, Fielco’s products offer minimal cure temperature and cure time.
Green Products
Mastergrip 3800
Mastergrip 3810
Masterweld 6355
Masterweld 6355 is a heat curing, one component epoxy adhesive developed to replace environmentally unfriendly phenolic adhesives. This product is supplied as a thixotropic liquid at room temperature and produces excellent bonds to steel, aluminum, and various plastics.
Cleaner 334 LV
Cleaner 334 LV is a high boiling, non-VOC, non-halogenated based, water rinsable cleaning and stripping solution. This cleaning system has been specifically formulated to replace high VOC paint strippers and methylene chloride cleaners. Cleaner 334 LV exhibits very high solvent activity over a broad range of resins commonly used in paint and coating formulations. It solvates lacquer type systems, two component epoxy systems, and is highly effective in solvating both acrylic and polyurethane formulations. When desired, the rate of solvent activity can be increased by raising the temperature of Cleaner 334 LV.
Embracing Our Green Philosophy
- Utilizing a distillation unit to clean and recycle in-house cleaning solutions
- Utilizing reusable totes for both raw and finished products whenever possible
- Recycling all empty pails & drums
- Maintaining a nearly 100% paperless work environment –“Think before you print” philosophy
- Using “Smart Strip” power strips that save up to 70% in energy costs
- Turning off all computers when not in use
- Making sure computers that have to be powered on are utilizing ‘power-save’ mode
- Unplugging all power adapters when not in use
- Buying post-consumer recycled paper whenever possible
- Recycling office paper, plastic & metal products
- Encouraging employees to generate less waste in their daily functions
- Replacing disposable batteries with rechargeable batteries
- Utilizing programmable thermostats
We hope that you seek out green vendors for your business needs – whether it’s printing business cards, hosting your website, cleaning your office or supplying adhesives. Supporting and working with like-minded companies is a critical step in reducing our carbon footprint. And remember, many green business practices are not only eco-friendly, but they’re friendly on the company budget as well!
Adhesive Applications
Fielco Adhesives is an innovator in developing new formulas for a variety of industry applications. Our formulations are typically utilized where performance and assembly efficiency are critical.