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Eco-Friendly Glues: Part One

Eco-Friendly Adhesive Products

L.D. Davis Industries manufactures a wide variety of protein-based glues and liquid water-based glues, which are all eco-friendly, completely non-toxic, and easily recyclable. Today, we’d like to feature our eco-friendly protein adhesive products, which are also commonly called animal glue or hide glue.

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Book Binding Glue by LD Davis Industries

LD Davis Industries: The Book Binding Glue Standard

In the beginning, LD Davis Industries manufactured an adhesive product for the stenciling industry. However, as a smart and innovative company must, we adapted to the changing business climate when necessary and altered our product to serve the box making and book binding industries. Book binding glue became, and is to this day, one of LD Davis’ premier adhesive products.

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A Collection of LD Davis' Eco-Friendly Work

LD Davis Green Advantage

LD Davis has been manufacturing eco-friendly adhesives for over eight decades. All of the adhesive products we manufacture are completely non-toxic, recyclable, and biodegradable. We like to do our part to help the environment. In fact, we like to call it the LD Davis Green Advantage:

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Recycled Gelatin and Adhesives

One raw material that LD Davis uses in its animal glue products is pharmaceutical scrap gelatin. Before the 1970’s, most gelatin used in animal glue, or protein adhesive, was extracted from the bones and hides of pigs and cattle. Today, a significant portion of the gelatin used in protein adhesives is from pharmaceutical and nutritional scrap gelatin, either in soft gel netting or hard capsule form.

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