3.1.5 Prominent Industries and Applications

3.1.5 Prominent Industries and Applications

The transportation sector includes industries that have benefited from the advantages that adhesives offer for the longest time. When the first adhesive factories opened in Europe around 1700, it was quickly found that bonding materials could be beneficial in transportation applications. There were drawbacks to the adhesives made at this time, which were animal-based. These adhesives were not resistant to heat and water, making them only usable in areas on vehicles, such as wagons, carriages and trains, that were not exposed to hot and wet conditions.

In 1911, when automobiles and carriages shared the streets, Carriage Monthly magazine wrote about a new ‘waterproof glue’. When combined with formaldehyde, this animal-based glue could be applied cold and survive in wet environments. General-use automotive bonding adhesives were finally possible because of this innovation.11

11) ‘Carriage Bodies and Parts,’ The Carriage Monthly, April 1911, p. 20.

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