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Mountain View Packaging in Boise, Idaho had been using lines of hot melt for years, with a hefty annual adhesive budget. Mountain View Packaging Maintenance Manager, Victor Sheldon, responsible for keeping ADCO Manufacturing's vertical cartoners running optimally, was looking for a cost-saving solution.

Finding the perfect adhesive for your application can be challenging enough, and when we are looking at UL94 rated adhesives, the search can be eve...

There's an industry secret out there that the big dawg hot melt manufacturing giants don't want you to know. But, I'm sure you don't care that y...

APAO Hot Melt Adhesives - The Basics Adhesives are everywhere and APAO hot melt is no exception. This unique bulk hot melt chemistry is used in app...

Honestly, who doesn’t love the latest and greatest technology? We certainly do here at Hotmelt.com. If it can save you money, speed up production,...

Graco InvisiPac in the Beer Industry: Overview Graco’s revolutionary hot melt dispensing system, the InvisiPac, has helped thousands of businesses across various industries see a drastic increase in savings on their production time and hot melt costs, as well as an increase in their overall productivity. One such industry that is experiencing a great deal of success with the InvisiPac system is the brewing and bottling/packaging industry. Even local breweries, like Summit here in Twin Cities, Minnesota, have experienced a great wealth of success with the InvisiPac system because of the control the system allows floor managers and workers to anticipate and solve problems that can occur on a brewery floor on a daily basis. Let’s take a closer look at exactly how InvisiPac is helping brewery and packaging companies exceed their current production rates.

Howdy, folks! In today’s post, we’re going to continue our running series on the new InvisiPac system from Graco, and how its revolutionary technol...

Deciding what hot melt formula isn't the only important factor when buying hot melt. We understand how tricky it can be to estimate cost and covera...

Hot Melt Stitching Overview Here at hotmelt.com, our mission is bringing you the best products at the best price, and that’s not just empty copy from some bloviating windbag or blogger (is there an echo in here?) To prove it, in today’s blog post we are going to zero in on the cost of bulk hot melt – one that our customers and friends in the packaging industry are quite familiar with – and show you how you can cut that cost by up to half.   Yes, half.

We have been asked a lot lately about metered hot melt dispensing. This article will cover the various ways you can control the amount of hot mel...

Welcome back! This is part five of our running series on Graco’s new InvisiPac hot melt dispensing system – a next-generation technology that is r...

What is bookbinding? Bookbinding is the process of connecting individual pages of a book into a single volume. The history of bookbinding started ...