All Sun products are available in 5 gallon plastic pails, 55 gallon Fiber drums, 55 gallon Metal drums, 275 gallon Returnable Cage totes and 330 gallon Disposable Fiber totes. Tanker quantity is also available.

Returnable Cage totes are used in high volume areas where empty totes can be held until a full truckload (40-44 totes) is available to be returned.

Pail pricing will always have an $.08 a pound upcharge over other packaging due to the high cost of pails.

Note: Returnable totes are not available in some areas.

Please inquire.

1. Temperature increases

• causing the glue to become thinner.
• causing various substrates to become more porous and absorbing to the glue.

1. Temperature decreases

• causing the glue to become thicker
• causing the various substrates to be colder and less porous. The glue will remain on top of the substrate increasing dry time.

For Technical Information
Terry Hoffner

One of the ABC's of laminating. A measure of thickness of adhesive. All of our products are tested at 77 degrees on a Brookfield Viscometer. Temperature and humidity greatly affect viscosity of products, 77 degrees is an industry standard. In much warmer weather, adhesives tend to thin out regardless of quality, i.e. #70 at 4,200 cps. at 77 degrees, could become 2,900 cps. at 90 degrees. If running vinyl or paper to gypsum this would not create a problem. This would create a problem if the porosity of the substrates were greater. MDF, Particle Board, etc. This could cause voids in the adhesion and present aesthetic or de-lamination problems. In colder weather much the opposite occurs. Products tend to thicken up quickly. #70 at 7,500 cps. at 77 degrees might become #70 at 12,000 cps. at 55 degrees. I cannot over emphasize the importance of keeping products at a dry stable temperature. When problems occur in adhesives temperature, humidity and application tend to be the biggest culprits. Other problems that affect viscosity are heat and air, particularly in the glue pan area. A shallow flat bottom pan is much more consistent for your adhesive than a V shaped pan with some depth. This type of pan tends to build viscosity more quickly and can cause "roping problems". Heat deflectors or shields may also be required to solve this type of problem.

Generally speaking, heavy vinyl's, MDF, Lauan, Particle Board and industrial type applications require a more viscous product. Paper and gypsum applications require a less viscous product. All adhesives manufactured by Sun Adhesives are solvent free with -0- VOC's unless otherwise specified. All products are P.H. balanced to run properly and be worker sensitive. By balancing P.H. and adding fungicide we reduce potential mildew problems. For cold weather applications we add an adhesive "antifreeze."

Besides testing for viscosity and P.H. we also test for solids of both raw materials and finished goods for all of our customers. We keep retains of all batches for 6 months to refer back to in case of problems. We manually test each product batch for adhesion. An example of his would be testing vinyl to particle board or MDG, or wood to wood. We are equipped with state of the art equipment, with the ability to run large batches. This gives more consistency to our products.