Articles

Cationic UV Curable Coatings: Aspects of Consumer Safety in Food Packaging

Helmut G. Gaube & Juergen Ohlemacher

Exterior clear coatings based on cationically UV cured epoxy formulations offer product advantages over UV acrylate systems in food packaging applications including low residual odor.

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Content: 13 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

On-Demand Curing of 2K-PUR with Photo-Latent Catalysts

A. Carroy

Energy savings by the introduction of more efficient curing processes that use less energy is a constant theme for the coatings industry, and has high emphasis in automotive applications. Taking the case of two-component polyurethane (2K-PUR) coatings, the use of conventional catalysts, e.g.

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Content: 9 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

Electron Beam Curable Flexographic Printing Inks for Flexible Packaging

M. Laksin, V. Linzer, T. Best, J. Modi and S. Chatterjee

Electron beam curable flexographic inks have recently been introduced to the flexible packaging market. The new EB ink system offers the benefits of UV curable inks—like good print quality, high gloss and product resistance—while eliminating needs in interstation curing.

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Costs: € 10,00
Content: 10 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

FDA Complaint Testing for Energy Curable Materials Used in Flexible Packaging

Dr. A. Lin

EB/UV curable technology has been known for many benefits including zero-VOC, production speed enhancement, overall cost reduction, and processing enabling capability.

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Costs: € 10,00
Content: 14 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

EB Laminating Adhesives

B. Ramalingam and A. Guilleux

Laminating Adhesives can be generally classified in to three broad types depending on the demands the packages are expected to meet. They can be grouped as high, medium and standard performance systems.

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Content: 8 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

An Innovative Technology For UV Laminating Adhesives

G. Macor, S. Villeneuve, S. Jig, R. Telesca and E. Ruiz

Prime IT technology allows lamination of films on virtually any kind of plastic material, including critical cases of chemically incompatible polymers, which have to be sandwiched together and where conventional laminating adhesives fail.

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Content: 6 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

Safety Aspects In The Use Of Uv-Radiation

K. Honle

Since about 200 years, UV-radiation is known as a part of the sun radiation and
nearly exactly one hundred years ago, systemcatical experiences with UVradiation
in medical research began (Finsen, 1896). The first remarks about skin

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Content: 6 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

Cationic UV Ink Migration and Safety Assessment

J.W. Carter and M.J. Jupina

Manufacturers want improved, lowercost
processes for decorating food packaging.
UV curing has been demonstrated
to provide improved performance and
lower costs for many food container ap-
plications. (1.2) UV flexo has been widely

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Content: 9 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

The Value Of Responsible Care And Its Relation To Radiation Cure

P.H. Chatton

Many survey indicate that the majority of people perceive the chemical industry as a
threat to the environment. Despite the efforts made to improve our environmental
performance, many people continue to distrust the industry. Although one can find a

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Content: 6 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

Safety Aspects and Facts Concerning Electron Beam Processors

P.M. Fletcher

In the early days of radiation curing, it was discovered
that the monomers or reactive diluents have irritant
properties. This sometimes resulted in severe skin- and
eye irritation for workers, V especially printers, working

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Content: 9 pages
Industry: Health, Safety & Environment

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