UV curing
UV curing is a relatively young but rapidly growing technology in the area of coatings, printing inks and adhesives, as well as numerous areas of application.
After this technology was used in the wood and furniture industry in the 60s,
Various new applications have opened up for UV technology in recent decades.
In addition to the wood and furniture industry, there are also areas of application such as printing inks, printing plates and adhesives as well as various
Applications in the coatings industry are increasingly using UV technology.
The reasons for this change include the advantages that this new technology offers!
Here are just a few of the many advantages:
- The curing of the UV coatings, UV printing inks and UV adhesives takes place in fractions of a second, so that a
Quality control and further processing of the coated substrates is possible immediately after curing.
This saves time and storage capacity! - Furthermore, UV paint, UV printing inks and UV adhesive systems are generally used on a solvent-free basis,
this means that there are usually no problems with the solvent directive! - UV-curing systems are very often 1-component systems; thus falls with appropriate
Working in the absence of UV radiation (daylight and neon tubes also contain a proportion of UV radiation!!)
due to the relatively long "pot life" of the systems very little waste.......
There are three different types of UV curing:
- radically curing UV systems
- cationically curing UV systems
- Dual cure systems (2 curing mechanisms in one system)
The information listed on this page only provides basic knowledge,
which you can deepen by participating in one of our UV seminars.
We would be pleased to welcome you as a seminar participant!
