Creating new products, assemblies, and material systems through the Polymer Bonding Process™.
A New Approach to Manufacturing.
The Polymer Bonding Process™ and/or Molecular Integration enables manufacturers, engineers, and innovators to integrate materials in ways that traditional assembly methods often cannot achieve.
Applications include:
- Polymer-to-polymer assemblies
- Polymer-to-metal assemblies
- Composite systems
- Lightweight structures
- Hybrid material systems
- Advanced industrial products
Manufacturing is no longer limited to selecting a single material and designing around its limitations. Today’s most effective products are often created by integrating materials with different properties to achieve performance that no individual material can deliver alone. Through Molecular Integration™ and the Polymer Bonding Process™, Tech-Bond helps engineers, manufacturers, and innovators combine polymers, metals, ceramics, elastomers, composites, textiles, fiberglass, carbon fiber, and other advanced materials into unified engineered solutions.
Whether the objective is reducing weight, increasing durability, improving corrosion resistance, enhancing flexibility, extending service life, or creating entirely new product capabilities, Tech-Bond provides the tools and expertise to transform concepts into practical, high-performance products. Innovation occurs at the intersection of materials—and that is where we work every day.
Engineering New Possibibilities
Engineered Products Through Industrial Problem Solving
The Manufacturing Unit serves as both a production center and an innovation engine. Rather than simply manufacturing products, it converts industrial problems into engineered solutions. Challenges identified by mines, utilities, manufacturers, transportation systems, and infrastructure operators become opportunities for research, development, testing, and commercialization. Through collaboration with the Tech-Bond Center of Excellence, Operating Units, and industry partners, new repair technologies, reinforcement systems, protective coatings, maintenance solutions, and specialty products are continuously developed and validated. The result is a self-sustaining ecosystem where field problems drive innovation, innovation creates engineered products, and engineered products generate revenue, intellectual property, and long-term competitive advantage. This capability is expected to become one of the most important drivers of growth and differentiation within the Tech-Bond organization.
Manufacturing is more than assembly
Traditional manufacturing often relies on mechanical fasteners, welding, molding, adhesives, or coatings.
The Polymer Bonding Process™ and Molecular Integration™ create an entirely different approach.
Instead of simply joining materials together, the Process enables materials to become integrated systems, allowing engineers to combine the best characteristics of each substrate while minimizing their limitations.
This capability opens the door to engineered solutions that can improve performance, reduce weight, increase durability, extend service life, and solve problems that conventional manufacturing methods struggle to address.
You can use these materials ... or other materials of your choosing, such as aramid.
Engineered solutions begin with a simple belief: materials do not have to remain limited by their traditional uses. When dissimilar substrates can be integrated instead of merely attached, entirely new answers become possible. Steel can gain protection, polymers can gain structure, ceramics can gain flexibility, and industrial assets can be repaired, reinforced, or reimagined rather than replaced. That is the larger promise of Molecular Integration™ — not one product, not one repair, but a platform for solving problems that once seemed fixed, expensive, or impossible.