History
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Dymax Corporation is a leading manufacturer of advanced light-curable adhesives, coatings, UV and LED light-curing equipment, and fluid dispense systems. Dymax solutions enable our customers to be more capable and efficient by increasing throughput, enhancing quality and performance, conserving energy, improving safety, and reducing environmental impact.
Founders, Andy and Clai Bachmann committed to developing an adhesive technology that would reduce the environmental impact and increase productivity in industrial manufacturing environments. What started as a three-person operation has grown into a global corporation with nine facilities and approximately 400 employees worldwide. Over the last four decades, Dymax has expanded its portfolio beyond light-curable adhesives and equipment. Today, we offer customers complete solutions including light-curable materials, dual-cure adhesives, dispensing equipment, and UV and LED curing systems.
Our in-house technical expertise and innovative spirit allow us to serve the needs of the medical device assembly, aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, and automotive electronics and assembly markets.
2019
- Patent: Dual Cure Acrylic Formulations and Methods to Cure Thereof
2018
- Very low viscosity conformal coating 9452-FC released
2017
- Patent: Tack-Free, Form-In-Place Gaskets and Sunlight Curable Coating Compositions
- Patent: High-Temperature Resistance, Radiation Curable Maskant
- Shanghai facility opens a R&D center
2016
- Dymax Asia Pacific receives Singapore SME 1000 Companies award
- Patent: Actinic Radiation and Moisture Dual-Cure
2015
- Patent: Polyurethane Acrylates Using Modified Hydroxythiols
2014
- Dymax Europe relocated to a large location in Wiesbaden, Germany to accommodate R&D lab
- Encompass® Technology which combined benefits of See-Cure and Ultra-Red® technology in one
- First Dymax LED Flood released
- Dymax North America receives award from the Connecticut Economic Resource Center
2013
- Dymax Korea Becomes a wholly owned subsidiary
2012
- Patent: Exposure Device with LED Array
2011
- Dymax Europe Moves to Larger Facility in Wiesbaden, Germany
- Patent: Photopolymerizable Compositions Containing an Oxonol Dye
- Patent: Radiation-Curable Fluorescing Compositions
2010
- Expanded global footprint to Dymax Korea Joint Venture
- Patent: Lightguide Exposure Devic
- Patent: Light Exposure Control Device
- Patent: Color Change Cure Indicator