Benefits of Antioxidants

During their life cycle, adhesives or adhesives components can undergo degradation as shown in the table below. Any one of the factors in the life cycle leads to an undesirable change in physical properties of the unstabilized adhesives, creating manufacturing problems, poor product appearance and reduction of adhesive strengh. The role of antioxidants is to prevent or retard all these undesirable changes.

Main benefits of antioxidants like color stabilization, viscosity stabilization,or retention of adhesive properties will preserve quality an performance of adhesive formulations during all its life cycle, as illustrated in the figure above.