Assembtek is an Engineering & Testing Lab consulting platform specializing in adhesive process design, automation integration, and supply-chain support for modern manufacturing.
In plain terms: one team for the material, for the machine that applies it, and for getting both to your factory — instead of three suppliers who each solve a third of the problem.
• ABT_01 // WHAT WE COVER
Most factories buy the adhesive from one supplier, the dispensing equipment from another, the engineering advice from a third, and hope the shipping takes care of itself. We are built to be all four — which is the only reason the four answers agree with each other.
Working out which product actually suits your parts, your line and the conditions the product will live in — then supplying it. Recommending and supplying are one conversation here, not two.
Where the adhesive goes, how much, how it cures, and how the joint behaves once real customers are using the product the way real customers do.
Matching the material to the equipment that applies it. Something that works beautifully by hand does not automatically work in a machine, and that gap is where most yield problems begin.
Getting the approved material to your factory and keeping it coming — including the documents, customs and handling that industrial chemicals need and ordinary freight does not provide.
Why these belong together. The answer to a bonding problem is almost never just a material. It is a particular material, applied a particular way, by particular equipment, that then has to keep arriving on time. Split across four suppliers, that is exactly where it stops working. See the full engineering services or the industry solutions.
• ABT_02 // HOW WE GOT HERE
Assembtek did not start as an engineering company. It started on factory floors, supplying what those floors used every day. Everything since has been added because customers kept asking for the next piece.
ST_01 — Supply
We began as an industrial hardware and materials supplier, working through the daily consumption list of factories. It is an unglamorous starting point, and it is why everything after it holds up: we learned what real production conditions look like by standing in them.
ST_02 — Distribution
We became an authorized distributor for Henkel, Loctite and 3M. Supplying the right product answered about half of what customers were asking. The other half was where it goes, how much, how quickly it sets, and what to do when a part comes back from the line looking wrong — and none of that is a distribution question.
ST_03 — Engineering
Joint design, application method, curing conditions, early testing. This is where Assembtek stopped being somewhere you buy from and became somewhere you ask. Most of what now sits under our engineering services — including the failure-mode work and the material substitution work — was figured out on somebody's production line first.
ST_04 — Platform
Material, process, automation and delivery under one roof — including the customs and documentation work that industrial chemicals need, and the ability to consolidate several brands into one shipment.
In 2025 we also established a joint venture for industrial epoxy research, which puts us upstream of the formulation rather than only downstream of the invoice.
No stage replaced the one before it. We still supply, and we still spend time on production floors — which is the only reason the engineering advice is worth listening to.
• ABT_03 // WHERE WE ARE, AND WHERE IT GOES
Hong Kong holds the company. Dongguan and Xiamen hold operations and technical work. Everything on the right of this diagram is somewhere our customers' second and third plants have gone — and a plant that cannot buy the approved material is a plant that starts improvising.
Hong Kong holds the company and the contracting entity. Dongguan and Xiamen hold operations and technical work — the order, the consolidation, and the records that travel with a shipment.
Consumer electronics and acoustics assembly moved here earliest and in the largest volume — usually with a design and a material list that were signed off somewhere else.
Programmes here tend to be older and more locked down. The material is part of an approved build, so “use something similar” is rarely a usable answer.
Often the same customers and the same products, arriving under a different set of rules. The material does not change; the paperwork that has to travel with it does.
Automotive and appliance production placed near the North American market. Long supply legs from Asia, and very little patience for a line standing still.
More often service, maintenance and low-volume build than a full assembly line — which makes minimum quantities and shelf life the real constraint rather than freight.
What we deliver does not change by destination. DDP to your plant as standard, with clearance, local labelling and a destination-language safety data sheet prepared before the goods move rather than discovered at the border. How a second plant gets supplied →
• ABT_04 // HOW WE ARE SET UP
Rather than operating as individual specialists, these functions work together on the same enquiry from the start. That is why the material advice, the equipment advice and the delivery plan arrive agreeing with each other instead of contradicting each other three weeks apart.
What the two surfaces are, what the joint has to survive, and which chemistry suits both. The chemistry follows the application — never the other way round.
The machine side: valves, nozzles, robots and fixtures. Whether the material you chose can actually be applied at the speed and repeatability the line needs.
Taking a process from first prototypes through to full production — EVT, DVT, PVT and MP — so what worked on ten units still works on the hundred-thousandth.
Proving the joint holds up under heat, humidity, vibration and age. Some testing runs in our own lab and some with external labs — the report always states which.
One team, one thread. Material choice, process design and production reality get lined up from the first conversation, so you are not left reconciling three suppliers' opinions yourself. If you would rather start from your own industry, the industry pages come at the same four disciplines from the other direction.
Send the parts, the process step, and where it has to be made. You will get an engineer's answer — and, when it comes to it, the material to go with it.
Vendor-neutral · Engineer-led · No compliance certificates issued