Adhesives & Sealants
Adhesives and sealants literally hold everything together: from book spines to vehicle bodies to facade joints. The global adhesives market is growing steadily — driven by lightweight construction, miniaturization, and the trend toward replacing mechanical fasteners with chemical ones. No two adhesives are alike: Each application has its own specific requirements for adhesion, curing, and processing. Biesterfeld offers the raw material portfolio and technical expertise needed to enable the right adhesive or sealant formulation for virtually any application.
Our Strengths
The broadest portfolio of additives among distributors on the market
We cover all relevant chemical systems—epoxy, polyurethane, UV acrylate, SMP, silicone, and water-based systems—and can find the right raw material for virtually any adhesive or sealant application.
Reliable availability, even for critical raw materials
A global supplier base and local inventory ensure a steady supply —even for specialty raw materials used in adhesives and sealants that are difficult to substitute.
Access to Our Application Lab
If you lack in-house capacity for formulation work, our on-site laboratories can assist with the development, testing, and optimization of your formulations.
Our Portfolio
We supply manufacturers of construction adhesives and sealants, structural adhesives, and adhesives for paper and packaging, as well as manufacturers of rubber-based adhesives, adhesive tapes, and sealants with resins, tackifiers, plasticizers, silanes, curing agents, crosslinkers, and rheological additives—for hot-melt, reactive (polyurethane, epoxy, silicone), emulsion, and solvent-based systems alike. The focus is on a better EH&S profile, improved processability and superior end properties, consistent adhesion performance across a wide range of applications, efficiently and cost-effectively formulated formulations, and long-lasting sealing and bonding performance even under demanding indoor and outdoor conditions.
Whether it’s fluctuating raw material prices, rising performance requirements, consistent adhesive coating quality, or resistance to UV radiation, moisture, and temperature fluctuations: As a distributor, we are familiar with these issues from numerous customer projects and provide targeted support in developing formulations for multiple end markets or tailoring solutions for specialized industries to meet safety and regulatory requirements, ensure reliable adhesion during efficient production, reliably meet customer-specific durability requirements, and integrate increasingly sustainable raw materials into formulations—as well as comply with industry-specific weathering and durability standards while relying on environmentally friendly, low-emission products without compromising performance or formulation costs.