Techsil acquires Essex-based adhesives distributor

Adhesive and sealant supplier Techsil has acquired Essex-based adhesive stockist and distributor Glueline.

Talking about the acquisition, Techsil chairman Paul Hughes said: “Glueline Limited has been servicing the UK manufacturing sector with structural adhesives for over twenty years. I’m delighted to be adding this successful adhesives business into our group.

"Glueline’s product range dovetails nicely with Techsil’s current adhesives portfolio. Glueline has some excellent customer and supplier partnerships, and as a part of a bigger entity, we will be able to provide all of our group customers a wider portfolio of products and all our supply partners with a broader range of customers." 

The new ranges joining the Techsil portfolio include structural adhesives from Permabond, Araldite and SCIGRIP such as:

• Toughened acrylics
• Anaerobics
• Cyanoacrylates
• Single part and two part epoxies
• Methyl methacrylates
• MS polymers

This is the third acquisition in the last ten years for Techsil, with Hughes describing the company as going from, "strength to strength.”