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HMT Manufacturing is an adhesive manufacturer. We have manufactured earth-friendly adhesives for more than four decades. We say “earth-friendly” because our strong adhesives have always contained no solvents and no toxins. In addition to our Advantage line of hot melt … Continue reading →

Large format sign manufacturers use HMT Advantage hot melt film adhesive to glue printed sign output to substrates. Our adhesive is ideal for indoor signs up to 5’x500′ and trade show exhibits. Our adhesive system uses no water, no solvents, … Continue reading →

Adhesive film lamination is a smart alternative to spray contact adhesives and pressure sensitive adhesives. Adhesive film lamination uses a dry hot melt adhesive stored as 500′ rolls of paper-thin film. The film can be held and is not sticky during … Continue reading →

When manufacturers need a plastic adhesive, they can count on HMT’s Advantage system. Adhering plastic can be challenging, but HMT’s Advantage hot melt film adhesives solve most plastic adhering challenges. Plastics are non-porous, rendering liquid-based adhesives ineffective because there is … Continue reading →

Our roll stock feed attachment allows customers to mount a roll of flexible material to our hot melt film adhesive laminating equipment. Put another way, it turns our laminating equipment into a roll laminator. Roll laminators allow flexible materials (such … Continue reading →

Hot melt lamination systems are used to glue two or more materials together. Hot melt lamination can use hot melt sprays or hot melt films. Sprays can be messy and slow to cure. HMT provides a hot melt film adhesive … Continue reading →

HMT is a manufacturer of adhesive coating equipment, custom adhesive coating solutions, and hot melt film adhesive. Our adhesive coating solutions can help you adhere practically any material to any substrate. And, they do so without using solvents, toxins, or … Continue reading →

There are a variety of types of glue equipment in today’s marketplace, but only one adhesive application system avoids the negatives and focuses on positive benefits: You can download this comparison chart here.

If you use hot melt adhesive, then you understand how time-consuming hot melt clean up can be. Manufacturers recommend a long list of cleaning tasks every 8 hours, 40 hours, and 160 hours in addition to daily maintenance and inspections. … Continue reading →

Cabinet makers use HMT’s Laminating System to glue laminates to substrates quickly, with even adhesive coverage, ready for immediate fabrication. Our Advantage adhesive can bond practically anything to MDF, plywood, particleboard, crumb board, etc, with superior bonding performance and consistency. … Continue reading →