In manufacturing applications, it’s essential to ensure that equipment performs at an optimal level in order to maintain efficiency and productivity. Applicators, in particular, play a crucial role in the application of fluids and adhesives in various production processes. Maximizing the effectiveness and longevity of these applicators is a critical factor in maintaining the quality of the final product and reducing overall operational costs.

This article provides valuable insights into how to maximize the efficiency and lifespan of fluid applicators. We’ve outlined practical steps that manufacturers can take to ensure the proper maintenance, cleaning and storage of their equipment. By following these best practices, businesses can reduce the frequency of equipment breakdowns and minimize the need for costly repairs and replacements.

As global packaging, furniture, footwear and construction markets continue to grow, those sectors are tasked with reducing the weight of their components to meet new fuel economy standards. By opting for adhesives and sealants over traditional mechanical fasteners, engineers are improving production line speed, durability and processing time.

Designetics Makes Presence Known on an International Stage. Designetics has long been a dominant player in the fluid applications industry in the United States—the company practically invented the sector when it helped automate and facilitate the application of adhesives to substrates for...

Designetics is recognized as the leader in fluid applicators and applicator systems – a reputation earned through our focus on solving customers’ problems and our ability to meet delivery requirements. In fact, even when faced with the supply chain crisis that manufacturers (and consumers) have dealt with over the past several years, Designetics has been able to consistently meet our customers’ lead-time expectations – whether for quick-turnaround prototypes or for high-volume production orders.

Don’t get us wrong, we didn’t escape the effects of the supply chain crisis – but we have put measures in place to manage it and avoid passing headaches along to our customers. How?

All Designetics applicators are made in-house at our Holland, OH facility, so we can ensure you get an applicator that meets or exceeds your expectations for performance and lead time.

At Designetics, we strive to make our employees’ lives better by giving back. Take our Designetics Cares foundation, which works to transform the lives of our employees and the next generation in our community by providing the means to grow through education, success, and personal health initiatives.

And now, we’re proud to have received a Top Workplaces 2022 award for the Toledo region. The Top Workplaces award is employee-driven, based solely on quantitative feedback provided by our employees regarding our workplace culture in terms of alignment, connection, coaching, and performance. Designetics is one of only 50 companies who earned this prestigious award from the hundreds of companies that were evaluated.