Water-based adhesives

Matco has a cooperation agreement for the Benelux and Germany with Hainaut Plast Industry, located in Cambrai (France). This company manufactures PVB out of windscreens and safety glass. Start: January 2016 Capacity: 15,000T/year post-consumer PVB with a 99.5% purity Type: pellets The pellets can also be grounded to powder (200µm) or be turned into liquid. The post-consumer PVB can be used as such (extrusion) or as a cost-reducing product to replace PP, PE, HDPE, PVC, PA, etc., it can be used in extrusion, thermo-forming and injection moulding. PVB applications: - Elastomers - Impact modifier - PVC compound - Textile binder - Hot melt - Coatings - Adhesives

Matco manufactures compounds for textile, carpet, mattress, vehicle and other industries. These customised products are based on various polymers: - Synthetic latex - Natural latex - VAE - PVAc - PVB The following compounds can be made based on the above-mentioned polymers: - Pre-coating - Adhesive compound - Pre-coating for artificial grass - Gel foam (ammonium acetate and sodium silicofluoride) - No-gel foam - Compounds for the automotive industry - Hardeners Many excipients are made by Matco, even following the customer’s requirements: - Thickeners - Dispersants - Soap - Colourants - Vulcanisation pastes (gel/no-gel) - Antistatic products - Wetting agents - Gelling agents - Antioxidants

Over 30 years ago, in a time when ecology was unknown to general industry, this activity established one of the first full service departments of Matco nv. Since its beginning, Matco chose to apply circular economy and the cradle-to-cradle principle, even long before these terms were even invented. All those years of experience taught us to offer ready-made solutions within the multitude of chemical industries, in order to ensure recuperation and valorisation of ‘problematic’ cases. This way, an adequate answer can quickly be given to every industrial branch, within the wide variety in chemistry.