The way an adhesive composition peels depends on the competing influences of its physical and mechanical properties and the reduced acidity parameter of the polymer, which forms a continuous phase. In practice, this can mean that on the outside insulation of steel pipes "dilution" of the expensive adhesive, usually a double or triple ethylene copolymer, by the less expensive polyethylene is possible, in a ratio that provides a continuous phase of "adhesion active" components. Considering the large difference in price and the fact that, in Russia, all high-quality adhesive ethylene copolymers are imported, such dilution could be an economically attractive approach.