What is BS EN 15307 – Footwear adhesives about?
The footwear industry is related to adhesives as footwear manufacturing involves the transformation and assembly of various components made up of several materials where different adhesives play a key role. The proper choice of adhesive is crucial to ensure the bond strength required.
BS EN 15307 defines for four main types of footwear minimum strength requirements for their soleupper bonds produced with solvent-based or dispersion adhesives under specified conditions.
Note: BS EN 15307 does not purport to address all the safety problems, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user to establish appropriate safety and health practices and to ensure compliance with any regulatory conditions.
Who is BS EN 15307 - Footwear adhesives for?
BS EN 15307 on footwear adhesives is useful for:
- Manufacturers of footwear adhesives and footwear materials
- The footwear industry
- The rubber industry
- Laboratories for testing adhesives
- Adhesive manufacturing and supplying companies
- Research and development team
- Quality control/assurance authorities
Why should you use BS EN 15307 - Footwear adhesives?
In the footwear industry a large number of different solvent or dispersion adhesives are applied for sole-upper bonding offering a broad range of technical effects. The correct choice of the adhesive is fundamental to ensure the bond strength required by footwear manufacturers.
BS EN 15307 describes footwear classification regarding the mechanical stress on its sole-upper bonds in use. BS EN 15307 provides you with specifications such as peel resistance, creep resistance under constant load, and ageing test related to footwear materials. BS EN 15307 guides you with material identification, adhesive identification, preparation of test pieces, test procedures and evaluation.
BS EN 15307 helps you to ensure high-performance properties and durability of the adhesives and bonding processes in the footwear industry and offers good early strength and workability for fast and efficient production.
What’s changed since the last update?
BS EN 15307:2014 supersedes BS EN 15307:2007, which is withdrawn. BS EN 15307:2014 includes some technical changes with respect to BS EN 15307:2007. These include:
- In order to clarify, the test in clause 5.2.1 and in 6.5 has been reworded
- In order to clarify 5.2.3, the sentence “(separation distance of the bonding)” has been added before the comma
- In Annex A, the full name of the abbreviations NBR, SBR, SBSR and PVC have been added between parentheses in the test
