LD Davis Gelatin Products as Ballistic Gel

LD Davis has been manufacturing protein gelatin-based products for many decades. These gelatin products are used in many different industries, such as packaging, book binding, and even used in birdseed molds as a base for seeds, or suet.

Military agencies and medical testing labs also use our gelatin products as ballistic gel, to simulate tissue when testing firearms, other weapons, and hypodermic/implant testing. Research has shown that our gelatin product, when used as ballistic gel, reacts comparably to tissue during firearms testing.

Sample Board and Cases

LD Davis has manufactured a wide variety of adhesives for over 85 years, including animal glue, protein adhesives, hide glue and liquid glue. Our adhesives are used in a large variety of industries and for many different applications. One common use of L.D. Davis adhesives is in the manufacturing of sample boards and cases, for example, for displays in retail stores and at trade shows for certain companies.

 Gelatin is a very important part of the manufacturing process at LD Davis. Since we started manufacturing protein glue (hide glue), gelatin has been a major raw material aiding in our glue manufacturing process.

Building Life-Long Bonds

L.D. Davis Industries invited back our retired COO, Norb Kroeger, retired VP of Sales, Ken Moye, and retired National Accounts Manager, Dave McCalla, to our animal glue manufacturing facility in Monroe, NC to celebrate their seventieth birthdays with their former colleagues and life-long friends from L.D. Davis. Norb, Ken, and Dave each spent over 20 years working for L.D. Davis starting in 1985 and ending in 2008. They helped L.D. Davis more than double in annual revenue during their working careers at the company.