Valued Partners: Engineering Solutions Together
At Halco, we believe that exceptional solutions are born from strategic partnerships. Our network of valued partners represents the pinnacle of innovation, enabling us to deliver custom fastening and attachment solutions that meet the most challenging industrial and medical requirements.
Our strategic material partners
Halco transforms the best of 3M adhesive tapes and fastening materials
We’re a fast growth 3M Preferred Converter with a close partnership and rapidly developing business relationship with 3M. We’re a very unique 3M converter in that our focus is on specialty fastening materials and their application in industry. Working closely with 3M, we help our engineering and manufacturing customers improve their product design by customizing and supplying the highest quality selection of fastening materials, pressure-sensitive adhesives and related performance materials from both Halco and 3M.
specified Medical grade Solutions from Solventum
Solventum is the Health Care spinoff of 3M that has medical grade double-sided adhesive tapes and hook and loop for low profile, on-skin applications. Halco is a Choice Converter for Solventum and has a unique master converter relationship for its medical hook and loop technologies. This combined with Halco’s portfolio of specialty hook and loop materials and converting capabilities, including clean room manufacturing, provides a unbeatable range of solutions for Halco’s medical customers.
Performance tapes from Avery Dennison
Halco has an emerging relationship with Avery for both its medical and industrial grade adhesive tapes. These tapes meet many industry and OEM specifications and work well with Halco’s specialty engineered hook and loop materials. Halco frequently specifies Avery’s fire retardant adhesive tapes for aerospace and aviation applications.
Other Partners
Halco works with a variety of other partners to provide a complete solution to its customers. This includes hardware manufacturers’ items like grommets, hooks and buckles. We also partner with complementary material manufacturers for specified foam, webbings and backings. Whatever solution you need, Halco knows how to make it happen.
Do You have a Unique Solution? Let Us Know!
Halco specializes in product closure and attachment systems and has deep expertise in specialty hook & loop and fastening materials, pressure sensitive adhesives, complementary materials (like foam, webbing and backings) and hardware. If you have a solution that you think would benefit Halco and its customers, we invite you to fill out the form and make contact with our sourcing professionals.
Halco’s Value-Added Services
In partnership, Halco and its partners, bring many services and benefits to manufacturing customers:
Materials Expertise
Plastics, metals, foam and fabric —virtually any combination of substrates can be bonded or attached together with the right combination of Halco and strategic partner materials
Engineering Consulting
Halco can respond very quickly with a drawing or prototype. Our partners often provide additional support to Halco and its customers through their own application experience, materials test data and testing capabilities.
Value-Added Converting
Many converters focus on larger projects with wider width adhesive tapes, release liners, films and foam. But hook and loop projects are typically smaller, shorter run with much narrower web widths and heavier mil thicknesses. All of Halco’s converting lines are already set up to convert hook and loop and an adhesive tape from one of its partners. This combination often then goes to die-cutting or another converting station. The combination of Halco and adhesive tape from its partners provides the fastest possible response to the customer who need a hook and loop solution for their project.
Prototyping
We’re able to quickly create engineering drawings and manufacture prototypes. Because we have a broad selection of Halco fastening materials and 3M, Solventum and Avery bonding tapes in stock, we frequently turn around a prototype that meets very specific quality and performance requirements for our customers in a day or two.
Case studies involving Halco and its partners
GOVERNMENT PPE MANUFACTURING
Halco was contracted to rapidly produce 12 million neck closure fastening parts for isolation gowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their requirement was that the fastening system be Berry Compliant, withstand gamma ray sterilization and meet AAMI PB70 requirements. Halco identified 3M’s 7336 and 7337 medical hook and loop fasteners. Both Halco and 3M responded rapidly, securing large volumes of material with Halco providing all the converting and die-cutting services to meet the application, volume and timeline requirements of the government.
ELECTRIC VEHICLE MANUFACTURING
Halco has a close relationship with Tesla and provides many custom converted hook and loop components for its carpet systems and insulation attachment. Electric vehicles are unique in that they require specialty insulative materials and specialty fasteners to help mitigate Noise Vibration Harshness (NVH).