GERMANY - Jowat has been successfully developing alternative manufacturing technologies for PUR hot melt adhesives with hazard-free labelling since the early 2000s.

Today, the Jowatherm-Reaktant^® MR series supplied by the adhesives manufacturer provides an extensive PUR portfolio of monomer-reduced products for a wide range of applications in the wood and furniture industry. From June 16-19 at this year’s Holzhandwerk show in Nuremberg, Germany, Jowat will be presenting a world first of that product family.

The tried and tested, non-hazardous edgebanding adhesive Jowatherm-Reaktant^® MR 607.90 is now also available as granules. It can be used for bonding established edgebands (ABS, PP, PVC, veneer, resinated paper) in a continuous operation on edgebanding machines.

Jowat SE with headquarters in Detmold is one of the leading suppliers of industrial adhesives used in woodworking and furniture manufacture, in the paper and packaging industry, for graphic arts, in the textile, automotive as well as in the electrical industry.

The company was founded in 1919 and has manufacturing sites in Germany in Detmold and Elsteraue, plus four other producing subsidiaries, Jowat Corporation in the USA, Jowat Swiss AG, Jowat Manufacturing in Malaysia, and the Jowat Universal Adhesives Australia Pty. Ltd. in Australia.

The supplier of all adhesive groups is manufacturing over 90,000 tons of adhesives per year, with more than 1.200 employees. A global sales structure with 23 subsidiaries plus partner companies is guaranteeing local service with close customer contact.