160107-Worthen_brochure

150 YEARS OF INNOVATION

WorthenIndustries.com

Worthen Industries began in 1866 as Union Paste

Company (Upaco). We have since grown to offer fifteen

distinct product lines. We embrace sustainability and

operate in a fully responsible manner according to our

Corporate Values.

01. INTRODUCING OUR COMPANY

Worthen Industries, Inc. manufactures specialty

adhesives, coatings, coated products, and thermoplastic

extrusion. Our UPACO (Union Paste Co.) & NYLCO (New

York Laminating Co.) divisions consists of 15 Product Lines

in our 5 U.S. locations that specifically focus our services

on our customer’s needs. We are a service-driven

company that adds value through our Research and

Development capabilities to provide custom solutions

throughout the marketplace.

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1. NASHUA SOUTH, NH

2. NASHUA NORTH, NH

3. RICHMOND, VA

4. CLINTON, MA

5. GRAND RAPIDS, MI

We don’t sell products--we sell solutions.

That means when you present our team with a

challenge, we are committed to finding you the

answer. We have the resources of five production

facilities and fifteen Business Units at our disposal

to tackle thoseproblems that other companies won’t.

Worthen has sales representatives and distribution centers worldwide

02. CAPABILITIES

Need help finding the right solution

for your needs? Need a custom solution?

TALK TO A SALES REP: 1-800-WORTHEN

CONVERTING

Our flexibility and experience allows us to handle the most

difficult webs. Throughout the many Worthen locations, we

provide various converting services for a wide range of

substrates: Slitting | Sheeting | Spooling | Calendaring

| Die Cutting | Laminating | Corona treatment

CUSTOM ADHESIVES & COATINGS

Our R&D chemists are experienced formulators of water

based, solvent based, hotmelts, 100% solids and

thermoplastic resin blend products. Please contact us to

discuss having a product designed to meet your

specifications.

FILM EXTRUSION

Worthen Industries extrudes thermoplastic resins for

supported or unsupported film products. Our in-house

development and processing capabilities allows us to

create thermoplastic compounds and blends for the most

demanding physical, environmental, and post-processing

applications.

WEB COATING

Worthen Industries specializes in our ability to coat many

different types of substrates. Over the years we have invested

in a variety of coating technologies to provide unique

product development solutions for our customer base.

TOLL MANUFACTURINGWe encourage you to contact us to discuss your specific

requirements for toll manufacturing. Please use the

Contact Us form or phone us: 603-888-5443


Peter Holland, Business Unit Manager:

[email protected],

O: (603) 821-5956, C: (603) 490-5541

Worthen Adhesive Coated Products specializes in applying

pressure sensistive adhesives to a wide variety of substrates.

Our technologies provide us the flexibility of using solvent,

water-base, and hot melt chemistries dependent on the specific

application. Our key markets are Medical and Industrial, but we

pride ourselves on customization and being able to provide PSA

solutions to any industry. Whether you need a wide PSA web, or

material converted to a narrow width, Worthen ACP can provide

the solution.

PRODUCTS

Medical Films

Medical Foams

Medical Fabrics

Industrial Tapes

Carpet Tile Tapes

Woven Poly Tapes

Custom Coated PSAs

OUR FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATES

Films (Urethane, Polyolefin, and polyester)

Textiles (Woven, Knits, and Non Woven)

Foams (Cross Linked Polyethylene and Urethane)

Woven Poly

Felts

Paper


03. ADHESIVE COATED PRODUCTS

Worthen’s unique ability to combine film extrusion with the

application of a pressure sensitive adhesive is a process that

can be used in many medical and industrial applications.

Combining these two processes can eliminate the need to

purchase and assemble multiple parts.

CAPABILITIES: Converting | Custom Adhesives & Coatings

| Web Coating | Film Extrusion | Toll Manufacturing

Advanced Canvas Technologies designs and manufactures

custom coated canvases and fabrics under our Perception

brand for use in graphic art products.

We are a group of dedicated, passionate professions who work

together with industry leaders to design and produce products

that continually raise and re-establish industry standards. Our

mission is simple: Consistently and sustainably manufacture and

deliver the highest quality, innovative American-made “craft” wide

format media.


04. ADVANCED CANVAS

“The bottom line is Perception has the best product to meet

our needs coupled with the fact that they work hand-in-hand

with us, as a partnership.”

Mark Lakey, Art Warehouse

VISIT US AT PERCEPTIONWF.COM

PERCEPTION® Product Lines

PERCEPTION®Canvases

PhotoFab® Fabrics

WindoFrog™ Films

PERCEPTION® PVC Free Wallpaper

PERCEPTION

Is a growing line of specialty coated

canvases and fabrics designed for artistic

demands of the graphic arts market.

We tailor our chemistry perfect offerings

for the individual customer’s print

platform. We foresee our growth in this

market through continual investment in

technology and manufacturing assets.

Worthen Industries is the exclusive North American distributor

for SK resins, a High Molecular Weight Saturated Co-polyester.

Worthen can provide these resins in solvated and unsolvated

form. You will find such resins in food packaging, can coating, heat

sealable films, laminating adhesives, automotive, sail, signage and

non-woven markets, to name a few.


05. CO-POLYESTER PRODUCTS

SKYBON is a line of saturated co-polyester resins with excellent

adhesion and flexibility. The environmentally friendly profile and

high molecular weight make it ideal for coil-coating,

food/beverage can coating, and clear varnish for paper.

Available in 3 distinct grades, SKYBON works excellently with

high-quality inks, high strength adhesives, and sizing agents.

SK and Worthen have developed a close

relationship over the years and can

customize resin to tailor their properties

to meet specific customer requirements.

So whether it be a tank truck or a bag of

resin, Worthen can meet your needs.

PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS

EH Hot-Melt Resins: Automotive Filters,

Label & Spangle, & FFC film.

ES Solvant-Borne Resins: PCM for

appliances, Can Coating & Ink, FFC film,

& Industrial Adhesives.

EW Water-Borne Resins: Sizing Agent for

textiles, over print varnish (paper

coating), & adhesion promoter.

Resin Selector and FDA Reference Guides

available upon request.

Worthen Industries Film Laminating division manufactures

high quality adhesives for the flexible packaging market. Our

product offering includes standard solvent based, solventless, and

water based adhesives, as well as coatings. You can find these

products at work in every aisle of your grocery store as well as in

the medical, window treatment, cosmetic and industrial markets.


06. FILM LAMINATING ADHESIVES

Although specifications for each product and capability can be

provided, we encourage you to speak with one of our customer

service representatives. Our talented and experienced R&D

team of chemists, scientists, and engineers works with our

customers to figure out how we can meet your unique needs.

We take pride in our customization

and the ability to develop solutions

that add value to our customer.

We welcome the challenge and

opportunity to provide solutions.

PRODUCTS

Primers

Lacquers

Adhesive Heat Seal Coatings

Industrial Adhesives

Food/Medical/

Cosmetic Packaging Adhesives

Worthen Industries is the exclusive North American distributor

for SK resins, a High Molecular Weight Saturated Co-polyester.

Worthen can provide these resins in solvated and unsolvated

form. You will find such resins in food packaging, can coating, heat

sealable films, laminating adhesives, automotive, sail, signage and

non-woven markets, to name a few.


07. FOAM FABRICATING ADHESIVES

SKYBON is a line of saturated co-polyester resins with excellent

adhesion and flexibility. The environmentally friendly profile and

high molecular weight make it ideal for coil-coating,

food/beverage can coating, and clear varnish for paper.

Available in 3 distinct grades, SKYBON works excellently with

high-quality inks, high strength adhesives, and sizing agents.

SK and Worthen have developed a close

relationship over the years and can

customize resin to tailor their properties to

meet specific customer requirements. So

whether it be a tank truck or a bag of resin,

Worthen can meet your needs.

PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS

EH Hot-Melt Resins: Automotive Filters,

Label & Spangle, & FFC film.

ES Solvant-Borne Resins: PCM for

appliances, Can Coating & Ink, FFC film,

& Industrial Adhesives.

EW Water-Borne Resins: Sizing Agent for

textiles, over print varnish (paper

coating), & adhesion promoter.

Resin Selector and FDA Reference Guides

available upon request.

The UPACO Footwear Products group offers PermaSeal®

Systems used for waterproof footwear and EcoBond® film

adhesives for both sole (in-mold) and upper (Stitchless®)

footwear applications. Additionally, we offer liquid bonding

adhesives (both solvent and water-based, natural and synthetic),

standard hot melts, and PUR’s (polyurethane reactive).


08. FOOTWEAR PRODUCTS

We have been custom compounding, reacting, and extruding

products for every operation of footwear and allied trade

manufacturing for over 40 years. Our teams are available

world-wide to work with customers to solve problems and

introduce innovative new concepts.

Our service technicians, backed by a

fully staffed R & D and testing

laboratory, are knowledgeable in the

most up-to-date systems and

manufacturing processes. They are

available world-wide to work with

customers to solve problems and

introduce innovative new concepts.

PRODUCTS

Adhesives & Primers: 100% Solid,

Water-Based, and Solvent-Based

Waterproofing: Seam Sealers and

Permaseal®

Ecobond® Films: Sole / Midsole

Attaching Films and Stitchless® Films

The Paper Converting and Packaging Adhesives Group

supplies adhesives and coatings to paper converters and

general packagers of industrial and consumer products.

We formulate and manufacture all types of adhesives

including: water based, hot melt, solvent based, reactive, and

extruded film adhesives.


09. PAPER CONVERTING AND PACKAGING ADHESIVES

We provide Natural Based Adhesives that are Starch, Dextrin,

and/or Casein based for glass labeling, paper laminating, box

forming/closing, and remoistenables market. Starch/Dextrin

based adhesives used in the glass bottle labeling, paper

laminating, box forming, and remoistenables for envelop gums.

Casein Pastes are also used in the labeling of glass bottles, which

provides excellent ice water resistance, but is easy to remove

during the recycling process.

Our extensive experience in the

industry and advanced capabilities

position us towork with customers’

unique applications to find an

adhesive that optimizes cost per part

and efficiency in labor. We provide

safe-to-use products to meet

ever-changing regulatory mandates.

PRODUCTS

Natural Based Adhesives

Foil Laminating

Paper Coatings

Case & Carton Sealing Adhesives

Book Binding Adhesives

Worthen Performance Coated Fabrics Group specializes in coating

fabrics with synthetic rubber and plastic coatings including

silicone, neoprene, vinyl, urethane, butyl, acrylic, olefins and

EPDM based TPR. Depending on the application or your custom

specification a wide range of base fabric selections are offered

including woven and nonwoven construction of polyester, polycotton,

nylon, glass, Kevlar or Nomex.


10. PERFORMANCE COATED FABRICS

Chemistry is the core of our business. Our fabric coating

development team starts with basic bench chemistry to build your

product from the ground up. We’ll optimize your textile coating

performance and cost to make you successful and profitable. At

Worthen Performance Coated Fabrics, our ability to fully integrate

material design, process engineering and proven production

capabilities produces a final coated fabric product designed to

give you a competitive edge in today’s marketplace.

We offer a wide range of physical,

environmental and decorative

properties to suit your needs. We meet

environmental-friendly regulations

with careful design and development

dedicated to your needs and the

needs of your customer.

PRODUCTS

Custom Coated Fabrics

Specialty Coatings & Compounds

Specialty Covers & Tarps

HVAC / Duct Work

Soft Wall / Tent Structure

Flexible Ducting

The Performance Coatings and Adhesives Group serves the

automotive, textile, and related industries by providing superior

coating and adhesive systems utilizing water- and solvent-borne

urethanes and acrylics for coating and laminating nylon and

polyester fabrics.


11. PERFORMANCE COATINGS AND ADHESIVES

We offer halogen-free alternatives to solvent-based flame

retardant urethanes for the textile industry. These

environmentally-friendly products are equally as effective as their

halogenated counterparts. All of our coatings can be

custom-formulated to meet your specific requirements. So

whether your markets are the military, aerospace or general

commercial applications, we can meet all your flame retardant

coatings needs.

Our products are valuable for a variety

of industrial, commercial, and apparel

applications. We possess extensive

compounding and polymerization

capabilities, and we offer toll and

contract manufacturing services to a

variety of industries.

PRODUCTS AND MARKETS

Textile applications

Automotive applications

PBDE-Free Fire Retardant Coating

Air Holding Devices

Product Care Label Coatings

The Printable Fabric Solutions Group provides coated and

laminated woven fabrics, nonwovens, and certain films for label

converters and commercial printers. Our products are used in a

broad range of applications; including apparel care tags, durable PSA

labels, and medical consumables. The Printable Fabric Solutions

group has been developing unique product solutions for the label

market for over 4 decades.


12. PRINTABLE FABRIC SOLUTIONS

The Worthen Printable Fabric Solutions Group provides a

series of unique synthetic products for the digital imaging

under their brand Fusion Digital Paper.

Learn more at

FusionDigitalPaper.com.

Our coated products are engineered to

be compatible with all modern printing

methods, ink chemistries, and

converting processes. Coated fabrics are

used in label and commercial print

applications that require sewing,

durability, flexibility and conformability,

or unique aesthetic attributes.

PRODUCTS

Tag & PSA Stock

Automotive Interior Labels

Apparel Labels

Military Labels

Medical & Bioconsumables Labels

Mattress & Furniture Labels

Product specification sheets available

upon request

If interested in finding out more, please

contact Bob Sampson at 603-821-5901 or [email protected]

The Sampson Rib Group supplies Insole Rib and Rib Attaching

Machinery to top manufacturers of Goodyear Welted Footwear

worldwide. Prime Manufacturing and Sampson are Worthen brands

that have been manufacturing Insole Rib in the U.S.A. since 1935. We

have over 100 variations of insole rib for all kinds of shoes. We

manufacture two of the most preferred Rib Attaching machinery in the

world, and our products are available worldwide, with distribution

centers on every continent.


13. SAMPSON RIB & MACHINERY

RIB LAYER BUY BACK PROGRAM

We buy back Sampson Rib Attaching Machines that you no

longer need as a part of our sustainability initiative. This helps

us maintain demands and low operating costs by reconditio-

ning machines and getting them back into circulation at a value

to the customer.

INSOLE RIB

The Sampson Rib Group offers a wide variety

of rib styles that vary in width, thickness,

adhesive, and base fabric construction to

meet the variety of footwear styles and

demands, including Berry compliance for

military applications. If we do not have exactly

what you are looking, we will work with you to

customize a solution.

INSOLE RIB MACHINERY

In addition to insole rib, we provide

rib-attaching machines, parts, and

servicing for both the Sampson and Prime

designs. We have machines available for

sale, but we also offer low lease options to

our Insole Rib customers. Our new

Sampson TM-14 model simplifies

operation, improves ergonomics, and

reduces maintenance cost.

The Specialty Adhesives and Coatings Group provides standard and

custom-made adhesives, sealants, and coatings for a wide variety of

applications. Some of the markets that utilize our products are:

automotive, building products, industrial, medical, and military. We

focus on developing environmentally-friendly solutions for our

customers’ applications.


14. SPECIALTY ADHESIVES AND COATINGS

At the Specialty Adhesives and Coatings Group, we take great

pride in our products and our ability to develop custom

adhesives, sealants, coatings, and processes to serve our

customers. We welcome the opportunity to work with you to

develop environmentally-friendly solutions to your adhesive and

coating needs.

We offer standard and custom PSAs.

They can be water based, hot-melts,

or solvent based. Our synthetic

rubber based (SIS, SBS) adhesives

exhibit high tack, peel and shear

properties as well as adhesion to low

energy surfaces. We also offer

urethane-based PSAs, which offer

removability with high peel force.

PRODUCTS

Pressure Sensitive Adhesives

Contact Adhesives

Heat Activated Adhesives

Synthetic Turf Products

Acoustical Panels & Soundproofing

Roofing Products

Polyurethane Technology

Primers

Worthen Industries’ Staple and Nail Product Group serves the

fastener industry with custom designed staple and nail adhesives,

coatings, and collating tape. We can custom design solutions to

solve individual problems.


15. STAPLE AND NAIL PRODUCT

CT-2775 is a cleaner/tape remover that is based on (>96%)

renewable, readily biodegradable and USP-grade raw materials

that allows customers to safely and effectively remove the

adhesive and paper from their scrapped nails, so that they can be

reclaimed and introduced back into the collating process.

If you need an adhesive, coating, or

heat-sealable tape for an unusual wire

application, contact our technical

group. We will review your request

and work with you to develop the

most effective and efficient solution

possible.

Our products include: staple and

staple wire band adhesive for all sizes

and applications, nail and staple

secondary coatings for performance

enhancement, and heat sealable

collating tapes for a wide range of

fastener sizes.

Worthen Performance Films produces high-performance

thermoplastic films. We are Innovation and Solution Driven to

Customer’s unique challenges in a wide range of markets. Our three

extrusion lines provides us the capability to produce adhesive and

barrier films that not only solve a variety of challenges, but add value

to our customer.

We specialize in co-extrusion with films up to 68” and up to 20 mil

thick. We also have the ability to extrude onto various substrates.


16. WORTHEN PERFORMANCE FILMS

WPF offers a specialized adhesive film for headliner lamination.

The film not only adds value with performance, but also simplifies

the process and reduces waste.

SOME OF THE MARKETS WE SERVE ARE:

Automotive

Medical

Decorative

Aerospace

Apparel

Footwear

Staple & Nail

Military

BASE CHARACTERISTICS

Thermoplastic Polyurethane

Nylon

Polyester

Polyolephins

APPLICATIONS

Laminations

Number & Letter (Die Cut)

Apparel Construction

Inflatables

Waterproofing

Banner Properties

Adhesive Properties

Printable

Moldable

Bladders

Water Bottle

Head Rest

Door Panel

Automotive Interiors

Tomark-Worthen LLC, a joint venture between Worthen Industries

and Tomark, produces industry-leading films for solar panels. These

high performance thermoplastic films are constantly being developed

to serve the ever changing renewable market. Learn more at

tomark-worthen.com


17. TOMARK-WORTHEN

Tomark-Worthen combines over 20 years of Tomark's PV

experience with Worthen's over 100 years of Manufacturing

Experience. We are experts in PV backsheets and

Fluoropolymers with the capability to make the products you

need to be competitive.

PHOTOMARK® REFLECTION PV

BACKSHEETS

Using backsheet to separate module

bus wire is costly and prone to poor

adhesion, but Tomark-Worthen

manufactures an EPE buss wire

insulation proven to be the most

reliable and cost-effective way to

handle buss wire insulation.

KYNAR PVDF TOPSHEETS

Designed with thin film modules in mind,

Tomark-Worthen’s Kynar® PVDF films are

the competitive alternative to ETFE or

FEP topsheets.

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