Top 10 Adhesive Brands in India (2026)

Walk into any hardware store in India and you will find a shelf crowded with adhesive tubes, tins and cartridges, each one promising to fix, bond, seal or build. For someone who just wants to repair a broken toy or reattach a loose laminate sheet, that shelf can be confusing. The right choice depends less on the brand printed on the label and more on what you are actually trying to bond: wood to wood, metal to concrete, a torn shoe sole, or a leaking pipe joint.

This guide looks at ten adhesive brands that carpenters, plumbers, contractors and households across India rely on regularly. Some are decades-old household names, others are specialists that professionals reach for on job sites rather than off a supermarket shelf. The list moves through general purpose wood glues, instant adhesives, epoxies, industrial bonding systems, construction sealants and adhesives built for engineered wood panels, so you can match the brand to the job rather than the other way round.

Quick Comparison

1. Fevicol

Fevicol needs almost no introduction in Indian households. Owned by Pidilite Industries, it was launched in 1959 as a ready-to-use alternative to the animal fat glues carpenters relied on until then, and it has stayed the default wood adhesive in the country ever since. Pidilite is widely reported to hold a dominant share of the Indian adhesive market on the strength of this one brand.

Its core product is a white, PVA-based synthetic resin adhesive, sold under variants tuned for different needs such as impact resistance, sag resistance and fire resistance. Pidilite has widened the range over the years with spray-applied versions and formulations built for specific carpentry jobs. The adhesive is commonly used for bonding wood, plywood, particle board, hardboard, laminate, plastic, glass and MDF, apart from general household repairs.

Best suited for: carpentry, furniture assembly, plywood and laminate bonding, general household fixes.

2. Fevikwik

Fevikwik is Pidilite's entry in the instant glue segment, and the brand markets it as the country's largest selling instant adhesive. It is a cyanoacrylate formulation, meaning it sets in seconds rather than minutes, which makes it popular for jewellery, toy, footwear and small household repairs where clamping a joint for hours simply isn't practical.

The range spans low viscosity formulations designed for close-fitting parts, as well as thicker gel variants for more controlled, non-drip application. Because cyanoacrylates bond almost on contact, the trade-off is that they leave little room for repositioning and are generally not the right choice for structural or load-bearing joints.

Best suited for: quick fixes on small items, jewellery and craft repair, situations where speed matters more than working time.

3. Araldite

Araldite sits at the heavy duty end of the household adhesive shelf. Owned globally by Huntsman, it is marketed as a do-it-yourself adhesive built for strength and durability. Unlike Fevicol's PVA base or Fevikwik's cyanoacrylate, Araldite's household range is epoxy: a two-part system of resin and hardener that cures into a rigid, high-strength bond.

The range is built to cover repairs across glass, ceramic, leather, wood, metal, masonry, hard plastics and rubber, and cured joints can typically be sanded or painted afterward. Because it is a two-part mix, Araldite needs more patience to apply than an instant glue, but the resulting bond is considerably tougher and more resistant to heat and water.

Best suited for: structural repairs, bonding dissimilar materials such as metal to ceramic or glass to wood, jobs that need a genuinely permanent fix.

4. M-Seal

M-Seal, also from Pidilite, solves a different problem from Fevicol: sealing and gap filling rather than pure bonding. It is best known as a multi-purpose sealant used across households and industry to repair broken items, fill gaps and cracks, and stop leaks in pipes and joints.

The product comes as a two-part epoxy putty, resin and hardener in roughly equal parts that get kneaded together by hand before use. Once mixed, it stays workable for the first few minutes before curing into a hard mass that can later be drilled, filed, sanded or painted. Variants exist for faster curing and for hygienic white finishes suited to bathroom fittings.

Best suited for: plumbing leaks, sealing cracks in tanks and walls, quick structural patch-ups where a putty is easier to apply than a liquid adhesive.

5. Loctite

Loctite belongs to Henkel, and in India it shows up far more often on factory floors and in workshops than on kitchen shelves. Henkel's adhesive technologies business supplies adhesives, sealants and functional coatings to industrial customers as well as consumers and craftsmen, and the Loctite range spans acrylics, anaerobics, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, hot melts, silicones and UV curing chemistries, a wider technical spread than most household brands offer.

Its threadlockers, retaining compounds and gasketing products are staples in automotive and machinery maintenance, used to stop bolts from loosening under vibration or to seal mating metal parts. On the consumer side, Loctite also sells cyanoacrylate super glues, which puts it in direct competition with Fevikwik for quick household fixes.

Best suited for: industrial assembly, automotive maintenance, threadlocking and retaining applications, engineering-grade bonding.

6. Nitobond

Nitobond is not a standalone consumer brand the way Fevicol or Araldite are. It is a product line from Fosroc, a construction chemicals specialist, built specifically for connecting new concrete or plaster to existing surfaces. On a construction site this matters more than it sounds: fresh concrete or mortar does not bond well to old, cured concrete on its own, and a weak bond between layers is a common cause of delamination and cracking later on.

The range includes different chemistries for different jobs, including a two-part epoxy-based version for bonding old concrete to new concrete or steel to concrete, and acrylic-based versions used as bonding agents and cement modifiers for plastering, tiling and waterproofing work.

Best suited for: concrete repair and rehabilitation, plastering and tiling adhesion, civil engineering and structural bonding work.

7. Bondtite

Bondtite is Astral Adhesives' flagship brand and one that has expanded considerably in recent years. It has built more than two decades of presence in India around strength and multi-substrate bonding, and its original strength was epoxy adhesives, a category where Astral positions it as carrying one of the widest ranges in the country. The brand has since added cyanoacrylates and, more recently, a full wood adhesive portfolio.

Astral folded its existing wood adhesive lines under the Bondtite name, phasing out its older Resiwood and Resigrip brands in the process, and now offers PVA-based white adhesives alongside its epoxy and instant glue ranges. This makes Bondtite one of the more diversified adhesive portfolios on this list, spanning household DIY, woodworking and general industrial repair.

Best suited for: multi-surface epoxy repairs, general woodworking, and households wanting one brand across several adhesive types.

8. Bostik

Bostik operates on a different scale from most names on this list. It is the adhesive solutions business line of Arkema, a large French specialty chemicals group, and its India business is built almost entirely around industrial supply rather than retail shelves. Bostik has been active in India since 2001 and has since added manufacturing capacity in Bangalore and Gujarat to produce hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives for sectors such as flexible lamination, transportation and footwear.

Its India business also serves the stationery and craft, DIY and trade, construction, industrial, automotive and packaging segments, though most of that reaches consumers indirectly, built into finished products rather than sold as a standalone tube off a shelf.

Best suited for: industrial lamination and packaging, hygiene product manufacturing, large-scale construction adhesive supply.

9. Sikaflex

Sikaflex belongs to Sika, the Swiss construction chemicals major, and is arguably the most specialised product on this list. It is positioned as a leading brand for elastic, one-component adhesives and sealants built on polyurethane or silane-terminated polymer chemistry. Unlike rigid adhesives such as Araldite or epoxy putties like M-Seal, Sikaflex stays flexible after curing, which matters for joints that need to move rather than lock rigid.

Building joints exist between different structural elements mainly to allow for thermal expansion, and they need to stay sealed against water and air over the life of a structure, which is the job Sikaflex is built around. It is used in facade joints, expansion joints in flooring, and in automotive and marine bonding where materials expand, contract or vibrate over time.

Best suited for: construction expansion joints, facade sealing, automotive and marine bonding where flexibility matters as much as strength.

10. Stick-Onn

Stick-Onn is a newer entrant focused specifically on wood and engineered panel adhesives, an area where India's furniture and interiors industry has grown quickly on the back of rising plywood, MDF and WPC board consumption. Rather than covering every adhesive category, the brand has built its range around the substrates carpenters and panel fabricators actually work with day to day.

The lineup includes Aqua+, a waterproof wood adhesive; Clout D3, a D3-grade wood adhesive suited to higher moisture exposure; AeroFix, a spray adhesive for laminate and veneer work; HeatFix, a heat-resistant formulation; WPCFix, developed specifically for WPC board bonding; and a 1K PUR adhesive, a single-component moisture-curing polyurethane used where a stronger structural bond is needed. This spread reflects a pattern showing up more often in the Indian adhesive market: formulations built for panel materials rather than plain wood alone, as WPC and PVC laminate use has grown in furniture and interior work.

Best suited for: wood and plywood bonding, WPC and PVC panel work, edge banding and laminate applications where moisture or heat resistance matters.

How to Choose the Right Adhesive Brand?

The honest answer is that no single brand on this list wins across every category, because they are not all solving the same problem. A few questions help narrow it down:

• What are you bonding? Wood-to-wood work calls for a PVA or PUR wood adhesive, such as Fevicol, Bondtite or Stick-Onn. Dissimilar materials, metal to ceramic or glass to plastic, usually need an epoxy, such as Araldite, M-Seal or Bondtite.
• Do you need speed or strength? Cyanoacrylates like Fevikwik and Loctite's instant range set in seconds but are not built for load-bearing joints. Epoxies take longer to cure but bond far more permanently.
• Will the joint move? If yes, look at an elastic sealant like Sikaflex rather than a rigid adhesive.
• Is this a construction or civil job? Concrete-to-concrete bonding needs a specialised agent like Nitobond, not a household glue.
• Will the bond face water or heat? Waterproof and heat-resistant variants exist across most of these brands, so check the pack for the specific rating rather than assuming.

Final Takeaways

Each brand on this list built its reputation solving a specific bonding problem: Fevicol for wood, Fevikwik for instant fixes, Araldite and M-Seal for heavy duty repair and sealing, Loctite for industrial assembly, Nitobond and Sikaflex for construction, Bostik for industrial-scale manufacturing, Bondtite for a broad household range, and Stick-Onn for wood and engineered panel work. There isn't a single best adhesive brand in India. There is a best adhesive for the job in front of you, and that's really the question worth answering before picking up any tube.