19 сентября, 2015 
Malyar The largest market outside tapes and labels is for adhesives for floor tiles. Peel-and-stick floor tiles are available from hardware stores for use by homeowners. These tiles usually have a hot-melt pressure-sensitive adhesive applied to the back so that laying to clean, prepared floors only needs the removal of a backing paper and pressing the tile into place. The adhesive layer in this application is substantially thicker than for tapes or labels, to ensure good contact over the entire area. Alternatively, vinyl flooring or carpets, either as tiles or in roll form, may be laid into water-based acrylic adhesives, although here the move is away from such adhesives in favor of more permanent adhesives typically based on vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer dispersions. Acrylic dispersions are often used, however, usually in unmodified form, for application of vinyl tiles or sheeting over an existing impervious floor covering, where it is necessary to allow complete flash-off of the carrier prior to laying the new floor covering.
Personal hygiene products such as disposable diapers make use of self-adhesive strips, covered with a release tape that is removed at the point of use. Again unmodified acrylic dispersions as well as hot melts dominate this application. The same considerations apply here as in first-aid dressings, and in particular the adhesive must not cause skin irritation.
Gloss lamination, the application of thin films of polyester or polyolefin over printed paper to enhance gloss and protect the print, is an additional application area. Traditionally, this has been the preserve of solvent-based adhesives, which offer rapid drying, thus allowing high machine speeds, but water-based systems are increasing in popularity as the ability to formulate at very high solids reduces the drying time to acceptable limits.
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