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SINGLE-US PLASTICS ARE OUT - CONTEGA HF ADHESIVE IS IN You can’t tell by looking at the new CONTEGA HF containers, but discarded yogurt cups and soda bottles helped bring this valuable adhesive to your job site. The new black tubes are made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials. To be more specific, used plastics that were recycl … read more

CONTEGA HF 100-Year-Adhesion HOW DO YOU TEST FOR 100 YEARS? Independent tests at the University of Kassel in Germany have confirmed it: CONTEGA HF achieves 100-year-adhesion. Of course, researchers didn’t just watch the product age for 100 years. Instead, they subjected CONTEGA HF (trademarked as ORCON F outside of North America) … read more

How to Stay Airtight When Buildings Move Buildings move. Ensuring that your air barrier is resilient to movement is crucial to ensuring the longevity and performance of your building. Unless you're building a structure using just one material (like superadobe), your building will consist of an array of different materials. In response to … read more

Intro to CONTEGA Acrylic Adhesives What Matters: Strength, Durability, Flexibility and Indoor Air Quality Buildings are often thought of as fixed objects. But in the real world, changes in the weather cause buildings to move - and we need to plan for the fact that they will expand, shrink, adjust and settle. If we are building an airtight bui … read more

How to Select the Right Tape SOLITEX Mento Plus roof membrane ready for TESCON Vana tape. Credit: 475 You know you need a great tape and you know Pro Clima tapes are the best. This rundown will help you select the right tape for the job at hand. If you need complete information, specifications and installation instructions click th … read more

How to airseal a Brownstone to PH standards (party walls) Brick party walls leak, so how do we airseal them? Solid brick walls leak. Imagine that the mortar joints are a labyrinth of air-transfer straws - connecting one side of the party wall to the other, or to the outside, and thus causing much leakage during the blowerdoor test. After so … read more