Honeycomb Facing Glue: Floor Mixing for the Two Routes

This sheet is only for honeycomb facing glue on /products/honeycomb-line-glue. Read the bag name before the water goes in. If the bag is core-strip glue, paper-tube glue, corrugator glue, or an all-purpose alkali-free concentrate, stop. Those products have their own water figures. Copying this sheet onto them is how a trial gets blamed on the paper.

Facing glue has two routes. Confirm which one was ordered before anyone weighs a kilo. The routes are not interchangeable, and neither is the 1:2 concentrate method used for some corrugator powders.

Route A — water only, no extra starch or filler

Use the complete low-temperature facing powder.

Water first: 30–40 kg, room temperature, per 25 kg bag. That is about 1:1.2 to 1:1.6.

Then the powder. Stir about 30 minutes.

One bag yields about 55–65 kg of glue.

Inside that band, less water dries faster and raises viscosity. More water dries slower.

The coat still has to lay evenly on the facing machine. If it will not, the batch is too heavy. Add a little water inside the band and write down what you added.

A quantified formula below 30 kg of water has not been confirmed. Do not drop under that floor on the shop floor.

Route B — the plant adds starch and filler

Use the premium low-temperature facing powder. Charge 25 kg of powder with 40–60 kg of room-temperature water, split across two tanks.

Tank 1: water, then the powder. Stir about 20 minutes until there are no lumps.

Tank 2: a separate water charge, then the starch and the filler. Stir until there are no lumps.

Pump tank 1 into tank 2. Stir again until the mix is smooth, then use it.

Starch type, filler type, and the kilos of each are agreed before the trial. They are not guessed at the mixer.

This is not the corrugator premium-concentrate process at a 1:2 dry ratio.

Shared rules for both routes

Room-temperature water. Do not start from a boil-up procedure copied off a corrugator kitchen.

One route per batch. Do not top up a water-only batch with a scoop of starch because the last shift did it that way.

Core-strip glue is a different grade. Its mixing note comes with the order. It does not use 30–40 kg or 40–60 kg from this page.

If the liner is white-top or must not yellow, that is a grade question for /products/neutral-adhesive, not a reason to change the water on this sheet.

Before the batch is released to the facing machine, write the route, the kilos of water, the stir time, and whether the coat laid evenly. That note is the trial record. A later shift cannot reconstruct it from memory.

Face laminating on this grade is specified around 4–30 m/min. Core making, around 10–200 m/min, is the other grade. Heat can stay off when the facing line is slow, and it can be turned on when the plant wants speed. The mixing sheet does not change when the heater is switched.

The video center has “Alkali-Free Honeycomb Board Facing Adhesive” at /cases#videos. The numbers on this page still govern the batch. The video does not replace the bag name or the route.