GC Adhesives Company provides excellent performance of hotmelt adhesives for book spine gluing, side gluing, with material of EVA and PUR basis. Our bookbinding adhesives deliver durable spines and superior side pages bonding.
We have a large range of hotmelt glue for bookbinding application, for textbooks, magazines, commercial printings as so on. Our hot-melt bookbinding adhesives feature high adhesive strength, fast drying, good fluidity, no drawing, non-hazardous, as well as high-temperature performance. Whether clients need to bind normal book paper, or gloss paper, and different paper weights, with full-automatic or semi-automatic machine, we can make suitable bookbinding glue accordingly.

EVA hot melt adhesive for bookbinding
Recommended EVA spine glue pellet

Item No.: EVA Hot Melt Adhesive Pellet 1101
Processing temperature [°C]: 150 – 165
Appearance: ivory
Softening range [°C]: approx. 79 ± 5
Open time at 160 °C**: medium (GC test method)
Viscosity at 160 °C [mPas]: 4,000 ± 500


Item No.: EVA Hot Melt Adhesive Pellet 1102
Processing temperature [°C]: 150 – 160
Appearance: Semi-transparent white
Softening range [°C]: approx. 75 ± 5
Open time at 160 °C**: medium (GC test method)
Viscosity at 175 °C [mPas]: 4,500 ± 500

Recommended EVA side glue pellet

Item No.: EVA Hot Melt Adhesive Pellet 1103
Processing temperature [°C]: 130 – 150
Appearance: Yellowish
Softening range [°C]: approx. 75 ± 5
Open time at 160 °C**: medium (GC test method)
Viscosity at 175 °C [mPas]: 2,300 ± 300

Recommended PUR hot melt adhesive

Item No.: PUR Hot Melt Adhesive 5701
Processing temperature [°C]: 130 – 150
Appearance: Cream color
Open time at 130 °C**: long (GC test method)
Viscosity at 120 °C [mPas]: 3,000

For different bookbinding machine and processing methods, open time and bonding strength requirement will differ. Feel free to contact us, for our bookbinding hot melt adhesives suggestions!
