What does it mean to be a 3M Preferred Converter?
3M Converter Solutions is a global engagement platform targeting markets like electronics assembly, appliance assembly and beyond. They are known for their unwavering honesty and integrity when dealing with customers, always striving to fulfill user needs with innovative and superior solutions.
Given their impressive track record, it’s understandable why being recognized as a Preferred Converter is highly coveted and why the company is very selective when awarding this status to its partners. It is the highest designation a partner can attain and is only given to the highest caliber partners – a title which PAX has held for years.
Material Expertise
Our knowledge over our selection of materials and the unique partnership we have with 3M gives us access to their latest and greatest product developments- allowing us to better serve our customers and find solutions tailored to their specific needs.
Customization
With over 38 years of experience in material conversion, our staff at PAX are experts in helping you think outside the box and apply solutions that take a variety of formats and offer benefits beyond what you might expect.
Product Development
Why choose 3M tapes, labels and adhesives?
3M tape adhesives can help you overcome your product design challenges and achieve your product goals.
Protect, bond, hold, shield and seal
Why use mechanical fasteners like screws when a custom-converted 3M bonding tape could provide a sleeker look, a stronger hold and other product-enhancing characteristics?
Short lead times
PAX Industries stocks a substantial amount of 3M products, which means there’s a good chance we’ve got what you need in stock. Faster access to inventory means you can get your parts delivered more quickly.
Sustainability
3M offers bio-based adhesive solutions that can be converted to your specific needs and help you deliver a product that’s better for your customers and the world.
Manufacturability
Converted 3M bonding tapes give you a manufacturing advantage: instant handling, the ability to die-cut to your specific shape or converted format, development of process aids and so much more.
Find the right product for your application
PAX Industries and 3M Capabilities
Customers with bonding and assembly challenges can rely on PAX to help improve the appearance, manufacturing process and performance of their products with customized solutions for virtually any substrate, assembly process, end use or cost requirement.
Automotive Manufacturing Solutions
3M has Bonding and Assembly solutions specifically engineered with the automotive industry in mind.
Maximize the efficiency of manufacturing, whether you’re an OEM, Tier supplier, or 3rd party product developer.
3M tapes and adhesives are designed to help you achieve your production goals quickly and cost-effectively. From interior trim mounting to exteriors that are exposed to the elements, we’ll work with you to understand your challenges and help find solutions.
Noise, Vibration, and Harshness Reduction
If your product features moving parts, converted 3M bonding tapes can help you not only hold it together, but more importantly, manage the inevitable acoustic and long-term durability challenges as well.
Sealing & Gasketing
Converted 3M tapes can be used to help seal your product against environmental hazards or as a custom-cut foam layer gasket that’s a perfect fit for your design.
Experience the versatility of 3M adhesives with PAX’s wide selection of materials to create seals and gaskets resistant to fluids, as well as adhesion to difficult to bond surfaces, and fast and easy application.
Heat Management and Shielding
If your product creates heat or is subjected to it during manufacture or use, converted 3M bonding tapes can be used to help deflect and protect against it to help maintain its integrity over time.
Assembly and Panel Bonding
For products large and small, converted 3M bonding tapes can be used to help streamline your assembly and panel attachment process while delivering a strong, long-lasting hold.
Work together with PAX to create prototypes tailored to your specific needs.
Badges, Labels and Brand nameplates
Whether it’s safety information, instructions or your logo, ensuring that badges, labels and nameplates stay firmly in place is important to the quality perception of your finished product.
Ensure a long-lasting, permanent hold for important instructional and warning information with 3M converted adhesive labels.
Mounting and Decorative Trim Attachment
Every detail of your product is a reflection of your brand, so it’s important to mount and attach trim and other decorative elements with a tape that’s designed specifically for the task.
Give your appliances a sharp, modern look that lasts with graphics or branding applied with converted 3M adhesives customized for your application.
3M Transfer Tape
These tapes have adhesive on both sides of a carrier layer – the two sides can be the same, or use different adhesives to bond different substrates.
Rubber, silicone, metals, gaskets, die cuts—any substrate, material, application or shape can be achieved with the products of 3M through PAX.
We can apply this to your product allowing you and your customers to just peel, stick, and go.
Foam Lamination
Getting the perfect seal, the right amount of acoustic insulation or the impact damping you need for your product is all possible with the right converted 3M foam lamination tape.
Foam and Fabric Bonding
Quickly achieve an aggressive, permanent industrial-strength hold on demanding foam materials and fabric textures with converted solutions from 3M.