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Fabricators often need to laminate materials and substrates into a single panel. This process, called panel laminating, is significantly improved using HMT’s Advantage Laminating System. Watch the Advantage Laminating System panel laminating process in this video. Notice that there are … Continue reading →

HMT Advantage adhesives are a key component in office partitions, room dividers, and cubicles. Our adhesive is ideal for this application because it can cleanly and securely bond a diverse assortment of materials. HMT Advantage adhesive bonds fabric, paper, wood, metal, … Continue reading →

Why does it matter if an adhesive contains water? Moisture can impact materials. When adhesive cures (dries), the water in an adhesive must evaporate. For non-permeable materials such as metal, there is no where for the water to go when … Continue reading →

Heat activated film adhesive is similar to material used in glue guns but is cast in the form of a fabric. This fabric-like material is available in 500′ rolls at any width up to 65 inches. Heat activated film adhesive … Continue reading →

HMT’s Advantage hot melt film adhesive excels at bonding cork to substrates. Because our hot melt film adhesive contains no water, the adhesive will not be absorbed by cork material. That means no warping, no wrinkles, no bleed through caused … Continue reading →

If your fabrication facility produces laminated materials on an ongoing basis, consider lamination machinery from HMT Manufacturing. We design, build, sell, service, and support industrial lamination machinery. This lamination machinery can be loaded with 500′ rolls of hot melt film … Continue reading →

HMT’s Advantage Laminating System uses ordinary single phase electric. Our customers don’t need to hire an electrician to install three phase service. And, they avoid expensive three phase electric bills. With single phase electric, you can place the Advantage Laminating … Continue reading →

HMT Advantage hot melt adhesive film is a tough, high performance, industrial strength adhesive. It can bond practically any material including wood, fabric, paper, metal, leather, carpet, foam, vinyl, and more (see examples here). Our industrial strength adhesives are highly … Continue reading →

HMT Manufacturing is a laminating machine manufacturer. Our Advantage Laminating System glues a material to a substrate quickly, cleanly, and uniformly. The most recognized application is laminate adhered to particleboard, but HMT’s industrial laminating machines have bonded carpet, sponge, paper, … Continue reading →

Simply put, panel fabricators produce laminated panels. After the lamination process, these panels are transformed from 4’x8′ (or 5’x12′, 5’x8′, etc) panels of laminated materials into cabinetry, furniture, interior panels, and much more. Panel fabricators need reliable, consistent, easy tools … Continue reading →