Process optimization
Process optimization through tailor-made adhesive and film solutions reduces assembly times, lowers scrap, and increases efficiency. Krückemeyer analyzes and optimizes your manufacturing processes with customized product adjustments.
Automated Production
Efficient, safe and fully reproducible: Adjustments to the automated production optimize the handling of adhesive solutions and enable high cycle rates with consistent quality and a reduction in setup times.
Application Aids
Faster, more precise, and easier to work with: Application Aids support precise positioning, pressing and bonding of individual adhesive solutions – manual, semi- or fully automatic.
Peel Aids
Clean, fast, and easy removal of protective coverings: peel aids facilitate the removal of liners and noticeably shorten changeover and assembly times.
Fixturing aids
Secure and contour-accurate positioning of adhesive parts before bonding: Fixturing aids ensure precise bonding and deliver reproducible results in assembly and downstream processing.
Finger lift
Fast bonding instead of tedious removal: finger lift-configurations with an overhanging liner enable easy removal of protective coverings for the adhesive solutions – ideal for stamped parts and other configurations.
Grip Tabs
Secure grip and easier processing: Grip Tabs on cut pieces of tape and films make handling easier, shorten cycle times, and reduce scrap in production.
Pick & Place
Precise positioning of processing aids with robotics technology: Pick and Place-optimized stamping parts optimize the process-safe removal of liner coverings in all processing steps.
Perforated adhesive tape
Easily tearable by hand: perforated adhesive tape speeds up workflows and enables precisely defined lengths in the unwinding process - also with individual adhesive die-cut parts and substrates.
Tape Liner
The key to process-safe handling: The right Tape liner influences unwinding behavior, die-cutting performance and ease of removal – from silicone-coated papers to technical films for automated applications.
Prozessoptimierung für Klebtechnik
Krückemeyer turns adhesive tapes, films and foams into manufacturer-independent process-safe, tailor-made solutions – as roll cuts, die-cut parts or on cross-wound spools in long production runs. This gives you products that can be processed more quickly and seamlessly fit into processes ranging from manual to fully automated.
Fingerlift- & Abziehlaschen
I - Fingerlift and Peel Tabs
Ideal for double-sided adhesive solutions, because the liner can be lifted cleanly without touching or contaminating the adhesive surface – reliable for manual assembly and also suitable for semi- and fully automatic processes.
II - Butterfly Closure | Patch Technique
The butterfly closure operates with two overlapping liners that function like wings. This allows the die-cut part to be temporarily fixed and precisely aligned before the protective cover is fully removed and the final bond is made.
III - Picking & Placing of Fingerlift Tabs
The goal is hundredth-millimeter precise, absolutely reproducible placement of the processing aids on the die-cut part – for example for a defined grip zone that must ensure perfect handling in the automated process.
IV - Perfect Positioning Through Robotic Technology
If the adhesive layer of the placed fingerlift tab bonds with the adhesive layer on the die-cut part, the bonding process cannot proceed — hence perfect positioning through Pick & Place.
Weitere Verarbeitungshilfen
I - Fixation & Positioning Aids
Fixation and positioning aids ensure that stamped parts sit correctly “as if by themselves” – e.g., along contours, edges, screws, cutouts, or reference points. This turns a rough estimate into a repeatable process.
II - Printing & Orientation Aids
A print makes adhesive solutions “self-explanatory”: for orientation, assignment, and traceability. Typical examples include batch numbers, assembly group numbers, position identifications, direction arrows, or assembly instructions.
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Nahtlose Prozessintegration
I - Fully automated processing
Seamless process integration means adhesive solutions do not run 'in the background' but support the line's cadence: fewer roll changes, lower line stoppages, and handling that no longer turns C-parts (e.g., adhesive tape/stamped parts) into a 'process bottleneck'.
II - Corona pretreatment
Corona pretreatment is an established method for surface activation: it increases surface energy, improves wettability, and thereby provides the basis for difficult-to-bond materials to become self-adhesive.
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Vor- & Nacharbeiten einsparen
I - Remove the remaining grid
Excess punching material is removed directly in production. Result: No grid removal work at the customer.
II - Repositioning away from the die-cut edge
Flowable adhesives can cause punched parts to adhere to the die-cut edge. By offsetting the punched parts on the substrate, the parts remain easily detachable and reliably dispensable in the process.
III - Removal of inner punch-outs
Material residues from the inner punch-outs are removed as needed directly, so no additional work is required at the customer.
IV - Technical cleanliness
Production under cleanroom conditions: reduction of dust and dirt particles on the adhesive die-cut part, which could lead to rejects.
Kosten sparen durch materialschonende Maßnahmen
I - Multi-track arrangement
Several identical or different die-cut parts are placed side by side on the web. This increases output per run and makes efficient use of the working width.
II - Cut-to-cut arrangement
The die-cut parts lie directly edge-to-edge and are separated by only a single cut — maximally space-saving.
III - Nested arrangement
Identical die-cut parts are nested to minimize gaps. Result: less scrap and better material yield.
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Thomas Klein
- Expert for process-safe bonding solutions
- Project business “Bonding Technology”
- Over 20 years in the industry