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Thin Bonding: Double Coated & Adhesive Transfer Tapes
A wide variety of solutions that enable a thin bond design
Why choose a Thin Bonding Tape?
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Design:
- Lightweight solution compared to mechanical fasteners
- Clear bond line
- Bond surfaces with no damage
- Uniform thickness of the adhesive layer
- Combine two different adhesives on both sides of the tape
- Convertable into die cuts
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Cost, process and productivity:
- Quick and clean process
- Prefabrication of the tape is possible
- Designed for manual or automated application
- No curing time needed
- Limited cleaning necessary
- Tapes won’t dry out in storage
Visit our Double Sided Tapes page to learn more about the benefits common to all double sided tapes.
What is a Carrier, and do all tapes have one?
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- Thickness: 50 – 350 µm
- With carrier
- Less flexibility and conformability than Transfer Tapes
- Compensates less surface roughness than a transfer tape
- Carrier limits the temperature resistance
- Better handling and stability than Transfer Tapes
- Easier to die cut
- Better to apply
- Two different adhesive layers can be combined
- Production of level wound rolls is possible
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- Thickness: 25 – 270 µm
- Without carrier
- High flexibility and conformability
- Compensates more surface roughness than a Double Sided Tape
- Higher temperature restistance than double sided tapes
- Automatic application is recommended for big surfaces
- Handling and convertibility is more difficult (edge picking) than using a double sided tape
- Fiber-reinforced Transfer Tapes are available for easier handling
Where can I use a Thin Bonding Tape?
From climate-controlled offices to harsh outdoor environments, you need high-performance versatility that can withstand whatever conditions customers throw at your products. Whether you’re bonding high surface energy substrates like metals and glass or difficult low surface energy materials like powder-coats and some composites, 3M has a wide variety of durable options for thin bonding – select each tab to learn more.
Adhesive that delivers in high temperatures and other challenging environments.
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3M™ Acrylic Adhesive 100MP
High-pressure situations call for high-performance solutions. When the stakes are this high, choose a pressure-sensitive adhesive designed for extreme conditions: 3M™ 100MP High Performance Acrylic Adhesive.
Properties:
- Designed for use with medium and high surface energy materials like metals, polyimides and polycarbonate
- Performs when exposed to high heat, cold and cyclic conditions
- Short-term temperature tolerance up to 260°C, operating temperature tolerance up to 150°C
- Durable adhesive is chemical, UV and solvent resistant
Tape for Metal and High Surface Energy Substrates
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3M™ Acrylic Adhesive 200MP
This adhesive stands up to repeated use in applications such as consumer appliances, industrial machinery, automotive, transportation, consumer electronics, healthcare, hospitals, public space communications, graphic overlays and fitness machines.
Properties:
- Superior performance on metals and materials with high surface energy
- High Shear strength
- Very good chemical and temperature resistance up to 200° C short term and 150°C long term
- Good solvent and humidity resistance
Tape for Hard-to-Bond Textures
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3M™ Acrylic Adhesive 300MP
When you need a durable solution that can attach, seal and reduce noise, even with hard-to-bond textures, look to 3M™ Acrylic Adhesive 300MP.
Properties:
- High initial tack and shear strength on textured surfaces like fabrics and foams
- Great performance on high and low surface energy substrates
- Soft and flowable adhesive
- Good temperature resistance of 120°C short term and 70°C long term
Tape for Hard-to-Bond Surfaces
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Bond plastic to metal with 3M™ Double Coated Tape 93010LE3M™ High-Strength Acrylic Adhesive 300LSE
Some substrates are just challenging to wet out and stick to, period. 3M™ High-Strength Acrylic Adhesive 300LSE is designed specifically to bond low surface energy substrates securely and reliably with high initial tack and high shear strength.
Properties:
- Good chemical resistance and humidity resistance
- Temperature resistance up to 150°C short term and 95°C long term
- Good anti-lifting properties on flat and curved surfaces
General Purpose Tape – GPT-020F
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Designed for versatility. Thousands of possibilities with the GPT-020F.3M™ GPT-020F Double Coated Tape is the ideal general purpose industrial thin bond tape for a wide range of applications and substrates.
Properties:
- High initial tack, High UV and humidity resistance
- High peel performance on a wide range of surfaces
- Superior high-temperature shear performance
- Adhesion to a wide variety of substrates ranging from metals to some plastics
- Perfect for a variety of markets, including consumer appliances, industrial machinery,transportation, consumer electronics
Tapes for the graphic and membrane switch market
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Bond plastic to plastic with the membrane switch spacer 7956MP.3M™ Tapes for graphic applications and membrane switches
Membrane switches engineered with 3M™ Acrylic Adhesives measure up to the most demanding standards.
Properties:
- Exceptionally high shear strength for long-term resistance to the stress of switch actuation
- Unique flat-lay liner boosts productivity and die-cutting precision while reducing waste
- Resistance to slippage, lifting, channeling and buckling
- Less oozing for precise switch actuation that lasts
Watch how Double Sided Tapes will solve your challenges
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3M™ Tape for hard to bond textures
More materials. More design possibilities – Use a tape with 3M™ Acrylic Adhesive 300MP adhesive for foam, fabric, vinyl, leather and many more hard-to-bond surfaces.
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3M Tape for low surface energy substrates
Plastics? Curved surfaces? Foam? Rubber? Powder-coated metal? Tapes with 3M™ High-Strength Acrylic Adhesive 300LSE make the unstickable… stickable.
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Looking for design versatility?
The new 3M™ GPT-020F general purpose double sided tape bonds to many high surface energy substrates and low surface energy substrates.
Are you looking for the right thin bonding tape for your application?
Click on the link below and use our thin bonding guide to find the solution for your application
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Need help finding the right product for your project? Contact us if you need product, technical or application advice or want to collaborate with a 3M technical specialist, or give us a call at 0870 608 0050.
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