Using Kollagora's adhesives and sealants selection website to increase your sales of adhesives and/or sealants.

This website is a free service to members of the general public, handymen or handywomen and professionals alike searching for the most adequate products to do the job.

1. Retailers

Have you ever observed the puzzled look of customers in front of the bewildering array of products displayed in most DIY stores? Informed help is  exceptionally available. The customer is therefore at the mercy of trial and error, with sometimes costly results and disappointment about brands.
Alternatively, their choice can be dictated by price only with sometimes disastrous results.
In addition, stores usually carry the products they sell faster. Customers may not be aware that some products may only be available by ordering online because the store usually does not provide information about the full product line of any manufacturer's brand.
This website provides to customers a free solution for retailers to both of these issues. The site will guide them to the store where they will find the product they need, and if it is not in stock, they can still order it online. However, they will need to prepare themselves by visiting the site at home or by using a smartphone in the store.

1. What is the need addressed by this website?

There is such a variety of adhesives and sealants on the market that do-it-yourself consumers, artisans and professionals alike are sometimes lost when looking for advice: nowadays most hardware stores have lost the competence to offer technical advice, or those that still exist are difficult to find. Many adhesives and sealants are advertised as multi-purpose, which is great if the job does not require the highest performance and if the product is to be used for different ends. For the most demanding jobs, however, it is generally preferable to use specialized adhesives or sealants (adhesive strength, resistance to humidity, rapid curing, etc.). It is hard to compare advice given by manufacturers. In addition, once a potentially suitable adhesive is identified, where can it be sourced?

The goal of this website is to provide to do-it-yourself consumers, artisans and professionals a convenient and fast way to identify a product that will fulfil their need for an adhesion solution.

This site does not contain information that may be directly relevant for industrial uses which are often protected by know-how and by customer/supplier confidentiality.

2. Why do you think this website is more attractive than other web-based glue guides?

This website’s owners have reviewed existing glue and sealant guides and have concluded that none meet the following criteria:

• Independent from manufacturers and retailers
• Query results (hardware stores) are tailored to a specific country
• For other countries links to online resellers can be used
• Multilingual (English and French initially)
• Includes sealants as well as adhesives
• Easy to use and fast

3. Do you claim listing all adhesives and sealants available in a given market?

For reasons of practicality and usefulness, the adhesives and sealants listed here are sold by the major country do-it-yourself retailers. While every effort will be made to be accurate by regularly checking the retailers’ current offering, it is always possible that a given adhesive or sealant will be temporarily out of stock, or that it is no longer carried. For this reason, when possible, the website query engine will list alternative brands and/or retailers.

4. Can retailers and manufacturers submit their adhesives/sealants listings to this website?

Listings from retailers and manufacturers will be gladly accepted and included in the website’s database. To be acceptable, a product technical data sheet and a (material) safety data sheet should be sent for each adhesive brand together with an Excel listing of the data entered in the respective columns:

• Manufacturer
• Brand Name
• Retailer Name
• Retailer Website URL
• Adhesive Category
  • Based on Natural Polymers,
  • Polymer Dispersion/Emulsion,
  • Hot Melt, Solvent Based,
  • Reactive Systems
    • Epoxies (EP), 
    • Polyurethanes (including moisture-curing liquid and foaming types),
    • Polyester, unsaturated (UP),
    • Acrylates (including cyanoacrylate, dimethacrylate/anaerobics; methacrylate, SGA – second generation acrylics/structural acrylics),
    • Silicones (1- and 2-part curing systems), 
    • Formaldehyde Condensates (phenolic, urea, melamine, resorcinol),
    • Silane-Modified Polymers (1- and 2-part curing systems)],
    • Adhesives Based on Water-Soluble Polymers,
  • Other*.
• Sealant Category
  • Oil-Base Caulks (includes polymer-modified versions), 
  • Acrylic (water-latex and solvent based, including “siliconized” versions), 
  • Vinyl Acetate (homo- and copolymers),
  • Butyls (Polyisobutene),
  • Solvent based PIB sealants,
  • Preformed PIB strips
  • Hot Applied PIB sealants,
  • Gun-Dispensable and pumpable sealants,
  • Reactive PIB sealants,
  • Polysulfides (1- and 2-part systems),
  • Polyurethanes (1- and 2-part systems, sealants and foams),
  • Silicones (1- and 2-part systems)*.
• Packaging
• Price range (EUR/mL or USD/oz)
• Main Advertised Use

      (* from the ASC-CATIA-FEICA Adhesives and Sealants Classification Manual, 2012 Ed.)
      Similarly, the website owners will happily consider any additional information or corrections and updates submitted by manufacturers and/or retailers.

5. Do you plan to include self-adhesive tapes in your website?

Inclusion of self-adhesive tapes may be a later enhancement of this website.

The site owners make no representation as to the accuracy and correctness of the information, statements and technical information provided, which is solely based on their personal interpretation of the information publicly provided by the manufacturers or retailers on their respective websites or otherwise freely distributed in any form (paper or electronically), or by other publications.

This means that they will accept no liability or warrantee for any consequential or inconsequential damage as a result of the advice provided herein. It is the responsibility of the user to obtain, understand and apply the complete information provided by the manufacturer. The user should perform all necessary tests prior to undertaking a job which may or may not lead to irreversible damage or loss of materials or process.

Nothing contained herein constitutes a license to practice under any patent and it should not be construed as an inducement to infringe any patent and the user is advised to take appropriate steps to be sure that any proposed use of the product will not result in patent infringement.

The safety, health and environmental information presented in this site are a summary of the main precautions that should be taken during use and disposal of the products. They are not intended to replace the information provided in the manufacturer's safety data sheet, which should preferably be consulted and understood prior to any use, especially but not exclusively when a potential risk is identified.

This website contains links to websites which are not maintained by this website's owners and over which the owners have no control. Such links to third party websites are provided for convenience and information use only and use of third party websites is entirely at the user's own risk. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the creators of any website or that the creators are affiliated with the third party's website owners.

Except where otherwise specified, this website's text and graphics are copyrighted. They can be viewed by anyone but cannot be used without the website's owners' written permission except for personal use. Permission is granted to link to pages of this site. Framing of any content of this site by another site is prohibited.

Any claims concerning copyrighted material should be promptly brought the attention of the website owners using the contact form

This website aims to be the leading source of information in English, French and Dutch speaking countries on adhesives and sealants to help with the selection of the proper products to do the job.

The name "Kollagora" is derived from the Greek "kolla" = gum, glue and "agora" = place of assembly or market.

While adhesive and sealant manufacturers make great effort at bringing to the market safe and effective products tailored to consumer and industrial needs, their bewildering variety can be confusing both to the layman and to the professional alike. Hopefully this website will help them find the product they need.

This site is a private initiative by several experienced chemists who have decided that there is a need for a comprehensive and easy-to-use source of information on the selection of adhesives and sealants for the general public and for professionals.

These chemists have acquired extensive experience during their respective careers working with large international chemical and consumer products producers in technical support and managerial functions, and in chemical industry trade associations. They strongly believe in the benefits that chemicals bring to modern society, whether they come from nature and have been used for thousands of years, or from the most recent technologies. As chemists and technologists, they are bridging the gap between molecular scale properties of adhesion and the performance expected from the user.

To support the time and cost of maintaining this website, the financial assistance of sponsors is welcome. Visit the "Advertising" section to learn how your company can take advantage of the visibility of this website by displaying its advertisements.

The owners and managers of this website can be contacted by clicking on "Contact Us" at the bottom of each page.