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Defense Markets
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3M Defense Bonding & Assembly

Our adhesive solutions can help streamline your labor and manufacturing processes, reduce weight, improve yield and even help you towards meeting your sustainability goals. From metals to composites and everything in between, we can help you secure various materials with long-term hold strength or repositionability, and we can work with you to customize those solutions specifically for your application.

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    Attachment

    Sealing. Weatherstripping. Trim. Nameplates. Sensors. Seat cushions. Flooring. If it’s a component commonly found inside a vehicle or aircraft platform, we likely have a variety of tapes, reclosable fasteners, structural adhesives and liners to help make bonds that function precisely how you need them to. Many of our solutions can be die-cut and customized to meet the exact specifications of each component to help streamline the assembly process, minimize waste and make sure everything stays put.

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    Structural

    From bonding display units, small joints, gaskets, powertrains, or even entire vehicle structures—we can help you ensure a strong, corrosion-resistant bond and streamlined assembly process between metals, composites, electronics and more. When environmental factors are a concern, we can help you design to mitigate hazards from heat, extended shock and vibration, and abrasion to help keep your platform operating at full capacity.

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Bonding you can believe in.

Did you know it’s possible to replace mechanical fasteners like rivets and welds with tape—and actually create a stronger bond? Believe it.

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When you engage our team early in your development process, we can add value and help create solutions before challenges ever arise. From day one, we’ll work together with you.

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    Our team of bench-to-bench experts work collaboratively with your engineering and design teams to isolate and eliminate or avoid challenges—while also thinking holistically about your entire platform. One primary point of contact works with you directly to connect the right people at the right time to make the right decisions.
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Product Solutions

Creating an optimal bond between two substrates requires an attachment system that’s up to the task. We put our full range of tape and liquid adhesive solutions to work for you to help enhance the bonding performance as well as the assembly process that goes into building your next platform.

3M™ VHB™ Tapes

Temperature resistance. Strength and durability. Increased throughput. Vibration damping. Water and dirt sealing. Precision die-cutting. The list of benefits of using 3M™ VHB™ Tapes to augment or replace mechanical fasteners in your bonding and assembly goes on.

Structural Bonding

Flexible and simple to use, our one- and two-component structural adhesives deliver flexible working times and variable cure rates. In most cases they can be incorporated into existing processes without additional equipment or process steps.

Reclosable Fasteners

3M™ Dual Lock™ Reclosable Fasteners are a time-saving attachment system ideal for a variety of applications like interior panels, headliners, access panels, sensor attachment or mobile mounting. These durable polypropylene fasteners feature a mushroom-shaped head design so mated parts can interlock and form a strong, yet removable, attachment without the hassle of mechanical fasteners.

Tapes

Our tape solutions help strengthen and streamline your process, from design to production and assembly. WIth the right attachment tape, you can open up design possibilities you may not have considered before.

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