Adhesives Engineered To Drive Cost Out: 3M Precision Cutting Adhesive Technology

By Eric Sanders, Medical Device Engineer, Auer Precision Company and Audrey Huang, Business Development Manager, 3M Medical Materials and Technologies, 3M Health Care

3M has developed 3M Precision Cutting Adhesive Technology (PCAT), an acrylic based adhesive manufactured to help drive economic value into customer products, to specifically assist in test strip and lab-on-a-chip manufacturing. To highlight 3M PCAT capabilities, the company worked alongside Auer Precision to create a side-by-side comparison with a commercially available medical-grade adhesive. In the trials, 3M PCAT displayed the potential to help Auer Precision reduce their downtime by thirty percent and increase their throughput by four to five times. Download the case study for the full story.