What if the problems aren’t in the material(s) or the adhesive(s) being used?
Many failures begin at the interface.
If we engineer the interface before failure begins, we can change the performance of the entire system.
Every day, engineers, maintenance professionals, and manufacturers search for stronger adhesives, tougher epoxies, and better repair material. Sometimes those solutions work. Sometimes they don’t. Our research led us to ask different questions.
What if the adhesive isn’t the real problem?
What if the interface between the materials is the real engineering challenge?
A Message from the Founder
For most of my career, I thought I was solving difficult repair problems.
When I developed the Polymer Bonding Process™ (the Process), I believed I had found the answer. The Process could bond virtually any polymer to itself, to almost any other polymer, and to almost any other substrate. That alone was exciting.
What challenged me was something I hadn’t expected.
The Process also worked exceptionally well on non-polymer materials.
When customers called because nothing seemed to work—their adhesive failed, an epoxy cracked, or a repair simply didn’t last—we found that the Process consistently produced successful results.
The obvious question became:
Why?
The answer seemed to lie in creating molecular bonds, or cross-linking, across the interface.
But something still didn’t fit.
I expected success with difficult polymers such as PTFE, HDPE, silicone rubber, and polypropylene. I did not expect the same level of success with wood, steel, aluminum, fiberglass, vinyl, concrete, and many other everyday materials.
The more successful we became, the more questions I had.
Years of continued testing taught me something I wasn’t expecting.
The adhesive wasn’t always the reason a failure occurred.
In many cases, the real challenge existed at the interface between the materials.
That interface—not simply the adhesive—often determined whether a system succeeded or failed.
That realization changed the questions we asked.
Instead of asking,
“What’s the best adhesive?”
We began asking,
“Why did the interface fail? or not fail?” and eventually, “How do we generate “cross-links” or bonds across the interface?”
That change in thinking eventually led to what we now call Intelligent Interface Engineering™.
Today, I believe we’re building something much larger than a collection of products.
We’re building a body of knowledge on not just how to bond polymers, but how to bond or cross-link almost all materials.
A place where research, engineering, validation, education, and industry come together to better understand material interfaces and how they influence performance.
This website is reflective that journey.
Whether you’re an engineer, researcher, maintenance professional, executive, student, or simply someone who enjoys solving difficult problems, I hope you’ll explore our research, challenge our ideas, and perhaps even challenge your own assumptions.
There is still an enormous amount of research waiting to be done.
I believe we’ve only begun to understand what becomes possible when we intentionally engineer the interface between materials.
Every major advancement begins with a better question.
Perhaps the next breakthrough begins with your question.
Donald W. Meyers
Founder, Tech-Bond Global
Tech-Bond Global LLC