{"id":168737,"date":"2025-10-10T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=168737"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T12:56:33","slug":"biobond-enters-the-hot-melt-market-with-biobased-technology-for-pressure-sensitive-adhesives-psa-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/biobond-enters-the-hot-melt-market-with-biobased-technology-for-pressure-sensitive-adhesives-psa-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"BioBond Enters the Hot Melt Market With BioBased Technology For Pressure Sensitive Adhesives (PSA) Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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BioBond Adhesives, Inc. (“BioBond”), a leader in innovative biobased adhesives and coatings, today announced its next entry into the hot melt market with the introduction of its BioMelt\u2122 Pressure Sensitive Adhesive product offerings for labels, tape and many industrial and consumer markets. These new plant-based solutions are available for sampling in Q4-2025 and will be on display at\u00a0BioBond’s booth at PackExpo in\u00a0Las Vegas\u00a0September 29-October 30. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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According to\u00a0Greg Piche, Vice President of Products, “The BioMelt\u2122 PSA line joins the company’s recently introduced BioMelt\u2122 hot melt for packaging. BioMelt\u2122 is our third product segment that is made from plant-based components, is certified as USDA Biopreferred with no odors and zero microplastics, and is PFAS free,” said Piche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“With excellent performance and very competitive pricing, we’re introducing a game-changer that will have an immediate and significant impact on the industry,” said\u00a0Brad Boelkins<\/strong>, Vice President of Business Development. We expect to scale volume production by the last quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr.\u00a0Clayton Westerman, BioBond<\/strong>‘s Chief Science Officer, said, “The development of high-performing, cost-effective, and sustainable biobased products that meet industry demands is challenging. BioBond plans to expand its biobased hot melt portfolio for packaging and now pressure sensitive adhesives with future products featuring faster curing times and higher biobased content.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

BioBond is the second portfolio company launched by Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners I, LP (GFRP) Fund and is based in Lafayette, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BioBond Adhesives, Inc. is a material technology company developing new adhesive materials, coatings, and applications that makes our environment a healthier and safer place to live and work. We specialize in the development of biopolymer compounds to displace traditional petroleum-based adhesives and coatings. As the second company formed within BIV’s Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) Fund, BioBond licenses intellectual property from multiple universities collaborating to develop novel materials to reduce the amount of plastic waste and VOCs such as formaldehydes entering the environment. BioBond headquarters is located in\u00a0Lafayette, Indiana. https:\/\/biobondadhesives.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About Generation Food Rural Partners<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Generation Food Rural Partners (“GFRP” or the “Fund”) is an RBIC-licensed investment fund designed to drive economic growth and development in rural communities in the U.S. The Fund invests in the areas of agriculture, food, and protein technologies to form new companies based on intellectual property, creating living wage jobs at its portfolio companies. GFRP is backed by members of the Farm Credit System, including Farm Credit Services of America, CoBank, Compeer Financial and Mid-America Farm Credit. GFRP is part of Big Idea Ventures (BIV), the world’s most active investor in FoodTech. BIV backs leading companies in food technology, AgriTech, and the bioeconomy across the globe. With teams based in\u00a0New York,\u00a0Paris,\u00a0Singapore\u00a0and\u00a0India, BIV has invested in over 100 companies across 30 countries. It manages both the Global Food Innovation fund family and GFRP. www.bigideaventures.com\/generation-food-rural-partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BioBond Adhesives, Inc. (“BioBond”), a leader in innovative biobased adhesives and coatings, today announced its next entry into the hot melt market with the introduction of its BioMelt\u2122 Pressure Sensitive Adhesive product offerings for labels, tape and many industrial and consumer markets. These new plant-based solutions are available for sampling in Q4-2025 and will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":168746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"BioBond Accelerates the Transition to Biobased Hot Melt Adhesives with Better Performance, Better Pricing and Better for Everyone Approach","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[12509,22378,5838,6026,12348,7105],"supplier":[25683],"class_list":["post-168737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-adhesives","tag-bioadhesives","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biopolymers","tag-coatings","tag-packaging","supplier-biobond-adhesives-inc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168737"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=168737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}