We have two types of Security Glazing Foam in our range. To help you select the correct product for your application, we have given some features, advantages and benefit of each product.

1. FoamLink double sided Polyolefin (PE) foam

Unique to UK Industrial Tapes, FoamLink is a double sided, double coated medium / high density closed cell polyolefin 85kg and 67kg (PE) foam. FoamLink comprises a 100% acrylic adhesive mass, which is coated onto a primed high-density polyolefin foam substrate using the latest UV/EB beam curing technology. This unique combination results in a product, which has a very good cohesive strength and exceptionally high tack. It is completely inert, free from solvents and will not out-gas or bleed plasticisers. Some of the advantages of Foamlink are listed below.

• FoamLink carries a greater adhesive thickness than most PE foam tapes, giving a higher initial tack and a greater long-term bond strength on a high quality silicon paper or filmic liner.
• The 65gm of Acrylic adhesive used has high resistance to extremes of temperature and can be applied in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees without any detrimental effects to the performance of the product.
• The 85kg and 67kg closed cell PE foam carrier offers excellent sealing dampening and vibration absorption capabilities, ensuring that bonds remain secure even in extreme conditions.
• FoamLink is ideally suited to bonding difficult and dissimilar surfaces including glass, ceramics, metals, many plastics and even powder coated finishes.
• FoamLink has great resistance to environmental factors such as Ultra Violet light, temperature and moisture and is therefore an excellent choice for all external and internal glazing applications.
• Our product has been tested and approved to BS7950 British standard 3 minute intruder test & weathering BS6375

2. Double Sided PVC Foam

We manufacture our own Double Sided PVC Foam Tape. We coat our Foam with 80gms of solvent acrylic adhesive.

The adhesive on the exposed side is coated with 50gms of our Solvent Acrylic Adhesive system. This ensures an excellent bond to the PVC Sash and Frame. The adhesive on the liner side is 30gms of a Solvent Acrylic Adhesive system, which we have found is excellent to adhere to glass.

The security glazing foam in the UK has mainly been PVC based, the reasons for this are as follows:

• To set up a coating line for the PVC will cost approximately 50-150K, which is relatively inexpensive.
• To set up a coating line for the PE will cost approximately 1 million pounds.
• The main supply chain of PVC is in Italy, so it is close to the UK.
• The main suppliers of PE are based in the USA.

When we manufacture our PVC Foam tape, we always achieve good anchorage of the adhesive to the foam to stop adhesive delamination from the foam.

We also coat the foam with 80 grams of a very aggressive solvent adhesive system to ensure an excellent bond to the sash & frame and the glass.

We also have available a 33kg PE with solvent acrylic BS7950 graded, along with a hot melt adhesive version to compliment our range.
Prices are available upon request and slit stock can be held on self upon request.

FoamLink is a double coated, closed cell PE foam tape ideally suited to bonding difficult and dissimilar surfaces including metals, ceramics, plastics and even painted and powder coated finishes, making it the ideal choice for glazing applications. It has a higher coat weight of adhesive than existing products, giving it a higher initial tack (even in temperatures of minus 20 degrees), and a greater long-term bond. The PE foam construction provides excellent conformability and is ideal for rough, uneven and unstructured surfaces. In addition the foam offers excellent sealing, and vibration absorption ensuring that bonded joints remain permanently secure even in difficult and exacting applications.

We coat our PVC Foam with a solvent acrylic adhesive system. We are one of the largest manufacturers of PVC Security Glazing Foam in the UK. We manufacture all our foam products to ISO 9002 performance standard.Our security glazing foam has an excellent solvent acrylic system, which we coat with 50gms on the open side and 30gms on the closed side of adhesive to 220/250kg PVC foam.To produce a security glazing foam that will give you optimum application and field performance, you need to achieve: -

• Excellent adhesive anchorage to the PVC foam, this is achieved by using the most up to date comprehensive coating machinery available.
• Using the correct solvent acrylic adhesive at the correct coat weight that will give you the correct peel, shear and tensile strengths.

We have spent many years developing our PVC Security Glazing Foam and it is now as good, if not better than any other product available in the UK today.Features, Advantages and Benefits of our PVC Security Glazing Foam are: -