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What are the advantages and benefits of UV coating?
There are two primary advantages to UV coating: 1. UV coating offers a beautiful glossy sheen that makes your marketing tools stand out. A UV coating on business cards, for example, will make them more attractive than uncoated business cards. UV coating is also smooth to...Read more -
The Marine Coating Market in Asia
Asia accounts for the bulk of global marine coating market due to the concentration of ship building industry in Japan, South Korea and China. The marine coating market in Asian countries has been dominated by established ship-building powerhouses such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and China...Read more -
UV Coating: High Gloss Print Coating Explained
Your printed marketing materials may be your best opportunity to get your customer’s attention in today’s increasingly competitive arena. Why not make them really shine, and catch their attention? You may want to check out the advantages and benefits of UV coating. What is UV or Ultra Violet Coat...Read more -
Radiation curing by LED technology for industrial wood flooring coatings
LED technology for UV curing of wood flooring coatings has a high potential to replace the conventional mercury vapour lamp in the future. It offers the possibility of making a product more sustainable over its entire life cycle. In a recently published paper, the applic...Read more -
20 classic problems with UV curing inks, essential tips for use!
1. What happens when the ink is over-cured? There is a theory that when the ink surface is exposed to too much ultraviolet light, it will become harder and harder. When people print another ink on this hardened ink film and dry it for the second time, the adhesion between the upper and lower ink ...Read more -
Exhibitors, Attendees Gather for PRINTING United 2024
his year’s show drew 24,969 registered attendees and 800 exhibitors, who showcased their latest technologies. The registration desks were busy during the first day of PRINTING UNITED 2024. PRINTING United 2024 returned to Las Vegas for...Read more -
Energy Curable Technologies are Enjoying Growth in Europe
Sustainability and performance benefits are helping to drive interest in UV, UV LED and EB technologies. Energy curable technologies – UV, UV LED and EB – are a growth area in numerous applications worldwide. This is certainly the case in Europe as well, as RadTech Euro...Read more -
3D printing expandable resin
The first phase of the study was focused on selecting a monomer that would act as the building block for the polymer resin. The monomer had to be UV-curable, have a relatively short cure time, and display desirable mechanical properties suitable for higher-stress applica...Read more -
The UV curable coatings market is expected to exceed USD 12.2 billion by 2032, driven by trends, growth factors, and future outlook.
The UV curable coatings market is projected to reach a staggering USD 12.2 billion by 2032, driven by increasing demand for eco-friendly, durable, and efficient coating solutions. Ultraviolet (UV) curable coatings are a type of protective coating that cures or dries upon exposure to UV light, off...Read more -
What is excimer?
The term excimer refers to a temporary atomic state in which high-energy atoms form short-lived molecular pairs, or dimers, when electronically excited. These pairs are called excited dimers. As the excited dimers return to their original state, the residual energy is re...Read more -
Water-borne coatings: A steady stream of developments
The increasing adoption of water-borne coatings in some market segments will be supported by technological advances. By Sarah Silva, contributing editor. How is the situation at the water-borne coatings market? Market predictions are ...Read more -
‘Dual Cure’ smoothens switch to UV LED
Nearly a decade after their introduction, UV LED curable inks are being adopted at an accelerated pace by label converters. The ink’s benefits over ‘conventional’ mercury UV inks – better and faster curing, improved sustainability and lower running costs – are becoming more widely understood. Add...Read more
