Adhesives, Sealants & Tapes

Discover our fantastic range of adhesives, sealants and tapes from top brands like Loctite, 3M, Ultratape, and many more.

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Adhesives

Adhesives are bonding agents, including glues and various solutions, designed to securely join, seal, and fill diverse materials and surfaces across numerous applications.

Rapid offers a comprehensive range of adhesives from leading brands such as Loctite, 3M, Tesa, and Ambersil. This category encompasses not only glues for bonding but also cleaning solutions, degreasers, lubricants, and other preparation and maintenance products, alongside paints, primers, and potting compounds. These versatile solutions are engineered for reliable performance in bonding, sealing, and filling applications across various environments and surfaces.

Sealants

Sealants are diverse compounds, including silicone and gasketing types, designed to create high-quality, durable seals for bonding and protecting against leaks across various industries. They are essential for preventing leaks and ensuring the integrity of joints and connections in demanding environments. The types of sealants offered, such as pipe and thread sealants, and their applications in construction, plumbing, and roofing, highlight their role in ensuring critical structural and functional integrity. Rapid offers a wide selection of sealants from leading manufacturers like LOCTITE, Ambersil, and Everbuild.

Tapes

Tapes are versatile adhesive products, ranging from packaging to electrical and specialised foam tapes, widely recognised as cleaner, more durable, and stronger alternatives to mechanical fasteners in many industries.

Rapid provides a comprehensive selection of general tape products, including packaging, gaffer, electrical, insulation, masking, and hazard marking tapes, from leading manufacturers like 3M, Tesa, and Ultratape. Additionally, we offer specialised foam and sealant tapes to meet diverse adhesive requirements. Valued across industries for being cleaner, more durable, and stronger than traditional mechanical fasteners, these tapes offer efficient and reliable solutions for various bonding, securing, and marking needs.

Activators, Primers, Removers & Debonders

Activators, Primers, Removers & Debonders are essential chemical solutions that prepare surfaces for optimal bonding, enhance adhesive curing, or safely remove cured and uncured adhesive and sealant residues.

Activators accelerate adhesive curing, while primers improve adhesion on challenging surfaces. Removers are solvent-based agents used to pre-clean heavily contaminated non-porous substrates and remove uncured excess adhesives or sealants. Debonders specifically dissolve cyanoacrylate adhesives, ideal for un-sticking bonded materials or even skin. These products are critical for ensuring successful application, maintenance, and cleanup in various bonding scenarios. Rapid offers a selection of Activators, Primers & Debonders from leading manufacturers like LOCTITE and Sealey.

Resins & Potting Compounds

Resins and potting compounds are specialised materials used to encapsulate and protect electronic components and assemblies from environmental hazards, vibration, and physical shock.

These compounds, often thermosetting plastics or silicone rubber gels, fill spaces around electronic components, curing to form a solid protective barrier. They offer environmental, mechanical, and physical protection, ensuring reliable electrical insulation, moisture resistance, thermal stability, and impact shielding. Common types include epoxy, urethane, silicone, and acrylic potting compounds, widely applied in military, industrial, automotive, and PCB protection from trusted brands such as Robnor, Taytech, and Electrolube.

Threadlockers & Retainers

Threadlockers and retainers are anaerobic adhesives designed to secure threaded fasteners and mechanical components, preventing loosening from vibration, shock, and corrosion, while enhancing assembly integrity.

Threadlockers, like LOCTITE, Weicon, Sealey, and Bondloc products, are single-component anaerobic adhesives that cure in the absence of air, filling microscopic gaps to lock threaded fasteners and protect against leakage, shock, vibration, and corrosion. They are available in various strengths for different applications and fastener sizes. Retaining compounds, conversely, are higher-strength adhesives used to fill spaces between mechanical components and secure bearings or cylinder liners, offering robust bonds resistant to harsh environments.