Editorial Policy: Independence, Sources, Request Disclosure and Corrections

AdhesiveAdditives.com publishes adhesive chemistry pages under four rules: no company pays for a listing or a mention, every value comes from a named primary source, every request form names its destination, and every reported error is checked and corrected. The four commitments below apply to every page of the site.

1. Independence: no paid listing, mention, ranking or placement.
2. Sources: a named primary source for every value.
3. Disclosure: every form names where the request goes.
4. Corrections: every reported error checked against its source and corrected with a dated note.

The sections below cover the publisher, independence, sources, request disclosure and corrections. Last updated: 2026-11-03.

Who Publishes AdhesiveAdditives.com#

AdhesiveAdditives.com is published under its own name as an independent reference on the raw materials, additives and chemistries of industrial adhesives, and its pages carry the byline AdhesiveAdditives.com Editorial Team. The pages are written for formulators, R&D staff, purchasing teams and quality staff at adhesive makers and at manufacturers that bond. Who runs the site and why it exists is set out on the page about AdhesiveAdditives.com.

The editorial team answers for every page as one team and is reached at editorial@adhesiveadditives.com. No individual expert or reviewer is named as an author, because each claim carries its own source and readers check the source, not a person. The site names no holding company.

Editorial Independence: No Paid Listings, Rankings or Placements#

No company pays AdhesiveAdditives.com for a listing, a mention, a ranking or a position on any page, and no page contains sponsored content. No advertisement appears on the site.

Reader requests sent through the site's forms go to independent providers and suppliers, and that routing changes nothing on any page. The site has no commercial alliances: no company is described as allied with the site, as a supplier of the site, or as endorsed by it.

How Companies, Producers and Grades Are Named#

Companies, such as producers and distributors, appear as market facts with a date; grade families appear only as dated data-sheet examples of a value, never as a recommendation or a ranking.

Producer rankings appear only as a dated third-party ranking: the ASI Top 20 2026 of Adhesives & Sealants Industry, published 2026-07-07. The site publishes no ranking of its own. Market sizes are analyst estimates written with publisher, scope and year, and figures from different publishers are never merged into one number. Company ownership carries its date, as in "Kraton is owned by DL Chemical since March 2022".

Sources: Which Primary Sources the Pages Cite#

Every number, date, identifier and named rule on AdhesiveAdditives.com comes from a named primary source: the agency or official journal that issued a rule, the body that publishes a standard, a peer-reviewed paper, or a producer's dated data sheet. The pages cite 16 issuing bodies by name: ECHA, EUR-Lex, eCFR, FDA, EPA, OEHHA, SCAQMD, CARB, OSHA, NIOSH, ISO, CEN, ASTM, FINAT, PSTC and PubChem. Wikipedia is never a source, and unauthorized copies of standards are never cited. The five source groups are used in the order below.

1. Law and official registers: EUR-Lex, ECHA, eCFR, FDA, EPA, OEHHA, SCAQMD, CARB, OSHA and NIOSH.
2. Standards bodies: ISO, CEN, ASTM, FINAT and PSTC, read in their catalogues for edition and status.
3. Identity data: ECHA and PubChem for CAS number, EC number and structure.
4. Peer-reviewed literature and patents, named with authors or patent number and year.
5. Producer technical and safety data sheets, as dated sources of their own grade values only.

Fact-Checking: How Values Are Dated and Labeled#

Every value is written with its basis, edition or date, so that a standard requirement never reads like a typical grade value. The table below shows how seven kinds of value are written on the site.

SI units come first, with US customary units in brackets, such as °C (°F), mPa·s (cP) and MPa (psi). CAS numbers carry their hyphens, and an EC number is written only where ECHA lists one; otherwise the page writes "ECHA list number". Loadings always carry their basis, such as wt % of formulation or phr.

Sources and checks: identities and hazard classifications are read at ECHA and the issuing regulator, standards at the body that publishes them, and grade values at the data sheet named next to them; methodology and fact-checking explains each step.

Hazard, Food-Contact and Regulatory Wording#

Hazard statements follow one order: the CLP Annex VI entry with its index number where one exists, otherwise the majority ECHA C&L notified classification, otherwise the supplier SDS. Rosin (CAS 8050-09-7) carries CLP Annex VI 650-015-00-7 Skin Sens. 1 H317. A pending classification process is written as a dated process, never as a classification, and a minority self-classification is never presented as the classification of a substance.

Food-contact statements name the jurisdiction, the listing and the condition of use. Under 21 CFR 175.105, the container of a food-packaging adhesive carries the label "food-packaging adhesive"; with dry food the adhesive is used within good manufacturing practice, and with fatty and aqueous food only as a trace at seams and edge exposures. No page describes an adhesive as cleared as a whole by a regulator; it names the listed components and the conditions of use.

Facts That Cannot Be Confirmed Are Left Out#

A value that cannot be traced to its primary source is left out of the page, not hedged or attributed to an unnamed source. A newer official text replaces an older value, and a producer data sheet never overrides a standard or a regulation, because a data sheet describes only its own grade on its own date.

Request Disclosure: Where Supplier, Quote and Testing Requests Go#

Requests sent through AdhesiveAdditives.com go to independent providers and suppliers, and each form states its destination in the words quoted below. The site offers three request types.

1. Adhesive supplier match: "Describe the bond once: substrates, process and volume. Your request reaches independent adhesive suppliers and custom formulators." (custom adhesive formulation)
2. Raw-material quote request: "Send one raw-material specification; independent suppliers and distributors can quote against it." (request quotes for adhesive raw materials)
3. Testing-lab match: "Describe the test and the standard; your request reaches independent testing laboratories." (adhesive testing laboratories)

Every form carries the same disclosure line: "Each request is passed straight to independent companies of that trade, and no company pays AdhesiveAdditives.com to be named or to receive requests; the editorial policy explains how." The forms promise no response time and no number of quotes, and they accept no file upload.

Request and Newsletter Data: Privacy Terms#

The site runs no analytics or advertising vendors.

Request data serves only the routing of the request to the providers it names. Storage, deletion and reader rights are set out in the privacy policy.

Corrections: How to Report an Error and How Fixes Are Shown#

Report an error on AdhesiveAdditives.com by writing to editorial@adhesiveadditives.com with the page address, the value you question and the primary source that gives a different value. A useful report contains three items.

1. Name the page address.
2. Quote the value you question.
3. Give the primary source and its date or edition.

Each report is checked against the primary source it names and against the source the page cites. A confirmed error in a number, date, edition or classification is corrected on the page, the page's "Last updated" date changes, and a dated correction note at the end of the page says what changed. A page is also revised when a regulation or standard it cites is amended, replaced or withdrawn. No response time is promised for a report.

Editorial Scope: Industrial Adhesive Chemistry Only#

AdhesiveAdditives.com covers industrial and formulator adhesive chemistry: raw materials and additives, adhesive chemistries, industrial applications, adhesion science, test methods, classification standards and the regulation of adhesives. Consumer glue how-tos, product rankings and brand pages are not published.

Contact the Editorial Team#

Editorial questions, corrections and source suggestions go to editorial@adhesiveadditives.com. Other messages go through the contact page.