PREPARE YOUR SURFACES
– IMPROVE ADHESION
PREPARE YOUR SURFACES – IMPROVE ADHESION
Surface treatment is a
preliminary phase before direct printing, applying paint or varnish or gluing together two naturally incompatible materials.
Our custom solutions improve the adherability of your substrates,
guaranteeing effective bonding and a permanent hold.
ADHESION ISSUES
- Printing: inkjet, screen printing, pad printing, digital, offset, heliography, flexography
- Collage : système de dosage industriel, robotisé, dans l’extrusion (par cylindre et racle, par coulée de PE ou de colle)
- Adhésion par moussage PU
- Application de peinture ou de vernis
TYPES OF PRODUCT
- Film, labels, paper
- Flexible (foam) or rigid sheets
- Thick or thin materials, solid or honeycomb
- 2D or 3D formed parts
- Wires and cables
- Profiles
- Conductive materials
MATERIALS AND SUBSTRATES
- Polypropylene, polyethylene and all types of thermoplastic or thermosetting polymers
- Elastomers and rubber
- Composite materials
- Metals, carbon, glass, leather, wood
- And any exotic or composite material not yet known to industry but which we can handle with total efficiency!
INDUSTRY SECTORS
- Automotive / Aeronautical
- Ship building / Armament
- Electronics / Electricity
- Medical / Pharmaceutical / Cosmetics
- Packing / Packaging
- Construction / Building / Decoration
- Home appliances
« CORONA, PLASMA, or FLAME treatment: we cover the whole spectrum of surface treatment. But our recommendations are not guided by technology; our analysis of your application issue determines which is the most suitable technical solution! »
ADHESION
INKS AND PAINTS
Offset
- Plastic sheets
- Food containers
- Tubes, lids
Flexography
- Plastic films: PE-PP-PET-PVC
- Labels
- Office supplies
Heliography
- Plastic films: PE-PP-PET-PVC
- Electric wires
- Tubes
- Labels
Pad printing
- Shaped objects
- Bottles, lids, caps
- Industrial parts
- Office supplies
- Cosmetic parts
- Tubes and lids
Screen printing
- Bottles
- Plastic pots or buckets
- Food containers
- Plastic sheets
- Labels
- Tubes and lids
- Cosmetic parts
- Technical parts
- Office supplies
Digital printing
- Shaped objects
- Bottles, lids, caps
- Industrial parts
- Food containers
- Plastic sheets
- Labels
- Tubes and lids
- Cosmetic parts
- Technical parts
- Office supplies
ADHESION GLUES
Gluing
- Automotive parts (brake pad sound insulation) and home appliance parts (coffee pot handles)
- Labels
- Thermoformed panels or blocks
- Foams, self-adhesive foam, honeycombs
- Double-sided adhesives (3M or Lohman) for the automotive industry or furniture manufacture
- Connectors, catheters, insulating material for doors
- Electric wires
By cylinder and scraper
- Food-grade films need to be laminated to another film
- Films and other surfaces need to be coated with a protective “barrier material” product
- Protective films (coated with an adhesive material with or without solvents))
- Adhesive tapes made of vinyl or PP, for coating the adhesive material and printing on the other side
By casting of PE (extrusion)
- PE coating on paper or aluminium
- Bond between two materials when the sandwiched PE forms the bond between these two materials
By casting of glue
- Depositing a glue joint on a technical part (silicone seal for lid tightness)
- Depositing a glue joint for the manufacture of car headlight inserts
- On base-cups of PET bottles
FOAM ADHESION
Adhesion by PU foaming
On technical parts or PP/PE honeycomb sheets, so that the foam adheres perfectly to the honeycomb walls. Adhesion by foaming gives extremely high mechanical strength to this lightweight material.
EFFLUVAGE INDIRECT® INNOVATION
Thanks to our Effluvage Indirect® (Indirect Discharge) technology, we can now treat both the outside AND the inside of honeycomb sheets (PP or PE) so that the injected PU foam can be bonded to both the inside of the honeycomb walls and the outside of the sheet.
Where does the innovation lie? As PU foam does not naturally adhere to polypropylene, it was previously impossible to make it stick to the inside honeycomb walls. But thanks to our Effluvage Indirect® treatment, the honeycomb sheet becomes ultra-rigid while remaining lightweight. What’s more, it also becomes a potential thermal or sound insulator, as well as being unsinkable. This opens up some very practical opportunities in terms of improving the cooling of refrigerated lorries, maintaining temperatures in cold rooms, manufacturing highly resistant yet lightweight boats, etc.
We are continuing to carry out other tests to explore other potential characteristics that we don’t even know about yet!
