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Loxeal Technical Information

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Company Overview: Loxeal Engineering Adhesives is an Italian company with over 30 years of experience in producing high-quality adhesives and sealants. It is ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified, ensuring high standards in quality and environmental management. The company operates globally with facilities in Italy, the USA, China, and Spain.
Product Range: Loxeal offers a diverse range of products including Anaerobic, Epoxy, Structural Acrylic, UV-light curing, and Polyurethane Adhesives. These products are certified for use in gas sealing, potable water, and medical devices, meeting high-performance requirements.
Key Features: The company focuses on customized formulations, in-house prototype testing, and comprehensive sales and technical support. Their manufacturing process is entirely in-house, ensuring consistent quality.
Product Specifications:
  • Anaerobic Adhesives: Cure in the absence of air and presence of metal, providing excellent sealing against various substances. Operating temperature ranges from -55°C to +150°C, with special grades up to +250°C.
  • Threadsealants: Replace traditional sealing materials and are approved by international authorities like DVGW and NSF.
  • Threadlockers: Prevent loosening of fasteners due to vibration and shock.
  • Gasketing: Replace preformed materials for sealing applications.
  • Retainers: Bond cylindrical components permanently.
  • Instant Adhesives: Provide rapid bonding for various materials.
  • Epoxy Adhesives: Two-part adhesives for bonding engineering materials, with high resistance to chemicals.
  • Light Curing Adhesives: Cure quickly upon exposure to UV or visible light.
  • Acrylic Adhesives: Rapid curing and high strength, suitable for structural bonding.
Technical Data: The document includes detailed specifications for various products, including viscosity, curing time, locking torque, shear strength, and temperature range. Products are categorized by locking strength (low, medium, high) and thixotropy (low, medium, high).
Certifications and Approvals: Many products are certified by international standards for use in gas, potable water, and other applications, ensuring reliability and safety.
Technical Document Summary
1. Specifications and Applications: This document provides detailed specifications for various adhesives and sealants, including their chemical composition, viscosity, gap filling capabilities, curing speed, tensile and shear strength, and suggested applications. The products are categorized based on their intended use, such as retaining bearings, precision assemblies, and high-temperature performance.
2. Product Categories:
  • Retainers and Sealants: Designed for retaining and sealing applications, with features like fast curing, high-temperature resistance, and approval for specific gases.
  • Instant Adhesives: Cyanoacrylate adhesives suitable for instant and structural bonding of various materials, with specific grades for different applications, including high-temperature resistance and gap filling.
3. Key Parameters:
  • Temperature Range: Most products operate between -55°C and +150°C, with some formulations extending up to +230°C.
  • Viscosity and Gap Filling: Products vary in viscosity from low to high, with gap filling capabilities ranging from 10 to 500 microns.
  • Curing Speed: Curing times are categorized from very fast to slow, depending on the product and application.
4. Recommendations and Best Practices: For optimal results, it is recommended to use specific products for their intended applications, considering factors like material compatibility, environmental conditions, and required mechanical strength. Activators are available to enhance curing speed under challenging conditions.
5. Standards and Approvals: Products comply with various ISO standards and have approvals for use with specific gases, ensuring reliability and safety in their applications.
Overview of Adhesive Products: This document provides detailed specifications and characteristics of various adhesive products, including acrylic, cyanoacrylate, epoxy, and UV light-curable adhesives. Each product is designed for specific applications, offering different curing times, viscosities, and strengths.
1. Acrylic Adhesives:
- Polymerisation: Effective on ferrites, metals, and ceramics with a fixture time of 1-2 minutes.
- Activators: Activator 18 and 20 are solvent-free accelerators with fixture times of about 1-2 minutes.
2. Cyanoacrylate Adhesives:
- Primer 7: Speeds up curing for difficult plastics and prevents blooming.
- Activator 9: Instant curing on porous or acidic surfaces, available in liquid or aerosol form.
3. Cleaners and Removers:
- Cleaner 10: Fast-drying cleaner for metals, ceramics, rubbers, and plastics.
- CR 1 and CR 5: Solvents for removing cured adhesives, with CR 5 available in gel form.
4. Epoxy Adhesives:
- Two-part Epoxies: High strength, suitable for metals, ceramics, wood, and some plastics. Curing times range from 5 minutes to several hours, with temperature resistance up to +120°C.
- Single-part Epoxies: Structural and heat curing, with high tensile and shear strength.
5. UV Light Curable Adhesives:
- Designed for bonding glass, metals, and some plastics, curing in seconds with UV light. Operating temperature range is -50°C to +120°C.
6. Structural Acrylic Adhesives:
- Two-component adhesives with curing times from 1 to 5 minutes, suitable for metals, ceramics, wood, and some plastics, providing high strength and durability.
Key Parameters:
- Viscosity: Varies across products, affecting application and curing.
- Handling and Cure Times: Critical for determining the working time and final strength of the bond.
- Shear and Peel Strength: Important for assessing the durability and impact resistance of the adhesive bond.
This document serves as a comprehensive guide for selecting the appropriate adhesive based on specific application requirements, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
Product Specifications and Applications:
  • Low Viscosity Adhesives: Suitable for bonding metals, ceramics, and plastics. They offer low viscosity and are ideal for high shear, peeling, and impact strength applications.
  • Two-Component Systems: These adhesives are toughened, low viscosity, and low odor, designed for bonding a variety of materials including plastics, metals, ceramics, and fiberglass.
  • High Temperature Resistance: Some products are resistant to temperatures up to +165°C, making them suitable for demanding environments.
Impregnation Products:
  • Methacrylate Resins: Used for sealing metal micro porosity by vacuum impregnation, meeting standards like MIL-STD276 and MIL-I-17563B.
Silicone Greases:
  • Waterproof and suitable for contact with potable water and food, resistant to temperatures up to +200°C.
Epoxstik:
  • Epoxy-based putty for maintenance and repair, bonds various materials, cures at room temperature, and is resistant to water and industrial fluids.
Dosing Systems:
  • DE1 Electro Pneumatic Dosing Unit: For anaerobic and cyanoacrylate adhesives, includes control unit and reservoir.
  • DE3 - DE3M Pneumatic Dosing Unit: Manual dispensing, suitable for spark proof environments.
  • DE4E Syringe Dosing Unit: Offers precise control and is multipurpose for different liquid products.
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Loxeal Technical Information-1

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Made in Loxeal Loxeal® Engineering Adhesives is an Italian Company supplying a full range of high quality Adhesives and Sealants and providing industrial solutions for over 30 years. The Company Quality System was certified in 1993 and has been improved since then, granting the high quality level of our products. Our Anaerobic, Epoxy, Structural Acrylic, UV-light curing, Polyurethane Adhesives and other Complementary Products have been acknowledged to perform at the highest requirements. Many products have been tested by international Laboratories and certified according to regulations in the...

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“Made in Loxeal” ensures a high quality for all our products, which is based on research, professionality and expertise. The best warranty of the quality of our products comes from all the international certifications and approvals that we achieved through the years in many different fields. Wide range of high quality products Development of customized formulations In-house prototype testing Sales and technical support to provide an ongoing application assistance Complete in-house manufacturing cycl

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CONTENTS Anaerobic Adhesives pag. 1 Liquid resins designed to cure when air is absent and metal surfaces are present. The adhesive fills all imperfections and gaps, providing better stress distribution on the full joint surface. The cured adhesive provides an excellent sealing against water, gas, oils, industrial fluid and chemicals. Fixture time depends on: gaps between surfaces, kind of metals, surface treatment and temperature. Operating temperature: -55°C/+150°C, up to +250°C for special grades. To replace traditional thread sealing materials such as hemp, PTFE tape, etc. Approved by...

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Threadsealing Anaerobic threadsealing adhesives seal and lock threaded connections against pressure of gas, air, water, oils, hydrocarbons and many chemicals. They replace hemp and PTFE tapes and are available in various grades of locking strength with resistance to various chemicals. Certified according to various international standards, e.g. DVGW, NSF, WRAS, KTW, BAM, WATER MARK. LOCKING TORQUE BOLT M10 X 20 ZINC - QUALITY 8.8 NUT = 0,8 d STANDARD ISO 10964 CLASS OF LOCKING BROOKFIELD VISCOSITY 1 = LOW STRENGTH - EASY TO DISMANTLE HT = HIGH THIXOTROPY 2 = MEDIUM STRENGTH - POSSIBLE TO...

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Threadlocking Anaerobic threadlockers lock studs, nuts, screws and any threaded fasteners. The adhesive prevents loosening caused by vibration, mechanical and thermal shock. Threadlocking adhesive also inhibits fretting corrosion and prevents the seizure and galling. LOCKING TORQUE BOLT M10 X 20 ZINC - QUALITY 8.8 NUT = 0,8 d STANDARD ISO 10964 CLASS OF LOCKING BROOKFIELD VISCOSITY 1 = LOW STRENGTH - EASY TO DISMANTLE HT = HIGH THIXOTROPY 2 = MEDIUM STRENGTH - POSSIBLE TO DISMANTLE MT = MEDIUM THIXOTROPY 3 = HIGH STRENGTH - PERMANENT LOCKING LT = LOW THIXOTROPY F = Fluorescent: when...

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Liquid Gasketing Gasketing anaerobic adhesive seals flat mating surfaces and joins flanges on pumps, gearboxes and differential housings. It replaces preformed gaskets and allows contact between metal parts forming a seal which is not prone to creep or relaxation. It forms a flexible and / or elastic gasket resistant to vibration, heat, oil and other industrial fluids. Parts can be disassembled using normal tools. LOCKING TORQUE BOLT M10 X 20 ZINC - QUALITY 8.8 NUT = 0,8 d STANDARD ISO 10964 CLASS OF LOCKING BROOKFIELD VISCOSITY 1 = LOW STRENGTH - EASY TO DISMANTLE HT = HIGH THIXOTROPY...

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Retaining Retaining anaerobic adhesives lock and fit bushes, bearings, sleeves, pin hubs, pulleys, gears and other cylindrical components. They are ideal for increasing the strength of press fit parts or retaining loose fitting parts, allow larger machining tolerances, reducing manufacturing costs, prevent fretting corrosion, vibration loosening and distortion. Retaining adhesives have excellent chemical resistance and seal against most fluids. '*REMARK CLASS OF LOCKING 1 = LOW STRENGTH - EASY TO DISMANTLE 2 = MEDIUM STRENGTH - POSSIBLE TO DISMANTLE 3 = HIGH STRENGTH - PERMANENT LOCKING BROOKFIELD...

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Instant Adhesives Cyanacrylate adhesives are for instant and structural bonding of rubber, metals, ceramic, leather and a variety of plastics. Best results can be obtained with joint gaps of less than 0.1mm up to 0.2mm for special grades. The service temperature range is between -50°C and +80°C, although new high-temperature resistant formulations are available for use up to 180°C. For porous surfaces or for vertical application a gel grade is available. (1) ISO 4587 Standard (2) ISO 10123 Standard (*) Relative setting time (5= max, 1 = min.)

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Activators & Surface Conditioners for Anaerobic Adhesives, Acrylic Adhesives, Cyanoacrylate Adhesives The activators are specially designed products to speed up the cure of Anaerobic Adhesives. Typical conditions of use are low temperatures, large gaps, inactive or passive surfaces. CLEANER 10 Fast drying cleaner and degreaser to optimally prepare the surfaces to be bonded. Suitable for metal, ceramics, rubbers and plastics. Available in aerosol form. CR 1 CA remover solvent based. To remove and clean from cured CA adhesive and to debond parts cured with CA adhesives. CR 5 Low odor, low volatility...

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Epoxy Adhesives Available in dual cartridges with static mixer. Two-part engineering adhesives provide high strength, structural joints. They are suitable for bonding metals, ceramics, wood and some plastics and they are supplied in a practical dual cartridge dispenser. Curing occurs upon mixing of the two components (resin and hardener). Fixture time is from 5 - 10 minutes to several hours. Applying heat will accelerate the cure speed. Temperature resistance is between -30°C and +80°C, +120°C for some products. Two-part Epoxies

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