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| | Decorating, Printing and Embossing Plastics | £250.00 | | Rapra Polymer Bulletin |  | | This Polymer Bulletin is a current awareness service from the Polymer Library, the world's largest database dedicated to polymer literature. Each time the abstracts database is updated with new records (approx. every two weeks) you will be sent a bulletin alerting you to any items that relate to decorating, printing or embossing plastics. Please see the sample issue below (request further samples)
The decorating, printing and embossing of plastics is a priority topic and widely used manufacturing process in the plastics industry since competition to sell plastic products which are aesthetically pleasing to the eye are constantly accelerating. Plastics can be decorated in a number of ways including painting, electroplating, spraying, vacuum metallizing, hot stamping, embossing and printing. Automobile parts, appliances, furniture, building products, packaging and containers all depend on attractive decorating for the "point of purchase" sales. Plastic body cars are painted to achieve show room finishes, plastic food packaging and containers have designs, logos and information printed onto them and vinyl floor and wall coverings are embossed with attractive patterns to increase the desirability and therefore sales.
Choosing the correct way of decorating a particular plastic is an important part of the production process. Although decorating plastics can have desired positive effects, there can be problems associated with decorating techniques. For example when painting a plastic a familiarity with terminology, tests, processes, techniques and regulations is required. Because plastic paint films are polymers, and therefore quite similar to the plastic materials themselves, physical, chemical and thermal interactions are likely to cause problems. Cracking, peeling or dulling of the paint may occur. These are effects that need to be avoided. Environmental effects and costs are also important issues that need to be addressed.
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Decorating, Printing and Embossing Plastics |
Record 1: Copyquest order no.
949387
Polymers Paint Colour Journal 195, No.4491, Aug.2005, p.46-8 ISSN: 1357-731X CODEN: PPCJA3
WIDE FORMAT INKJET GROWS.
Schneider S (Clariant GmbH)
An overview is presented of the world inkjet market followed by discussion on the technology and trends in the rapidly growing wide-format inkjet ink market. Important requirements for ink ingredients and colourants and choice and combinations of solvents for inkjet inks are considered and the manufacture of inkjet inks, incorporation of colourants and formulation of UV inks are briefly covered. 8 refs.
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Record 2: Copyquest order no.
948768
Popular Plastics and Packaging 50, No.8, Aug.2005, p.22 ISSN: 0971-0078
FILM BUFF.
It is briefly reported that Autotype has launched a new line of high performance films, called SIGMAGraF Uvjet, which enable printers to purchase one film type for a wide range of indoor and outdoor uses. The new polyester-based films utilise the company's hard surface, textured coating and ink primer technologies to produce high clarity products. Applications include signage, POS materials, in-store decoration and cladding, fascias and floor graphics. In addition, the new films incorporate an anti-graffiti coating on the outer surface making them scratch, chemical and solvent resistant.
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Record 3: Copyquest order no.
948762
Plastics News(USA) 17, No.25, 22nd Aug.2005, p.3 ISSN: 1042-802X
BANKRUPT PAIL MOLDER BACK IN BUSINESS.
It is briefly reported that U.S. Specialty Container has resumed operations about a year after its assets were bought out of bankruptcy in a sealed-bid auction. The company is operating in Leominster, Mass., under the same roof as the company that bought its assets, injection moulder First Plastics. It is moulding 5-gallon pails and lids on two 750-ton injection presses and decorating the containers with a pad printer.
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Record 4: Copyquest order no.
948760
Plastics News(USA) 17, No.25, 22nd Aug.2005, p.1 ISSN: 1042-802X
CAPTIVE PLASTICS PURCHASING SPENTECH.
Bregar B
Packaging maker Captive Plastics's acquisition of Spentech Plastic Containers gives Captive a presence in the Southeastern US. Captive says it will continue to look for strategic acquisitions in the market categories that it is in. Spentech generates sales of about 30m US dollars/year from blow moulded bottles and jars for cosmetics, personal-care items, pharmaceuticals, automotive products and household chemicals, using PE, PP, PVC and PETP. The company does mainly extrusion blow moulding and decorating and some stretch blow moulding. Captive says the combined companies should generate around 150m US dollars in sales from nine plants. Captive does blow moulding and injection moulding. Its markets are personal care, healthcare, food and beverage.
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Record 5: Copyquest order no.
948753
Injection Molding 13, No.6-7, June 2005, p.39-42 ISSN: 1071-362X
APPEAL THAT'S SKIN DEEP.
Maniscalco M
E-Go laptop computers are reportedly the world's first mass-produced leather- and fabric-covered models from Tulip Distribution International Holding. Underlying the success is a multi moulding process that enables electronics enclosures to combine plastics and organic materials. The Exo Overmolding System from Inclosia Solutions enables decorative materials such as wood, metal and designer fabrics to be fused with rigid plastic substrates. The decorative insert is placed inside the mould cavity prior to injection. The Exo technology aims to marry fashion and functionality for applications such as mobile phones, handheld electronics, cosmetics and automotive. In addition to the Tulip E-Go, commercial applications include a Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer that incorporates leather and a polycarbonate/TPU rugged case for the HP Tablet PC.
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Record 6: Copyquest order no.
948749
Plastics and Rubber Asia 20, No.136, Sept.2005, p.40-5 ISSN: 1360-1245
FIRST PAST THE FINISHING LINE.
Ever since the use of plastics in the sports industry started nearly 30 years ago, they have become an indispensable part of sport today, from clothing, shoes to sports equipment itself. This article discusses some of the latest applications of plastics, including stadium roofing, protective clothing, footwear, mouth guards, headgear, roller blades, surfboards, snowboards, skis, bicycle saddles, hockey pucks, archery cable guides and golf tees.
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Record 7: Copyquest order no.
948643
European Plastics News 32, No.8, Sept.2005, p.27 ISSN: 0306-3534 CODEN: EUPNBT
OUTSIDE CLASS.
Vink D
Long glass fibre-reinforced thermoplastics (LFTs) have long been considered out of bounds for external automotive applications, due to their inability to be used for high gloss painted Class A surfaces. This could change in future with the use of film clad back compression moulding on an LFT substrate, which has been demonstrated by Dieffenbacher. The panels were developed with Fraunhofer ICT, using BASF's ABS and SAN materials, which enables a reduction in glass fibre content from 40% to 30%, to the benefit of surface quality. The fibres do not read through to the decorative film due to improved fibre dispersion and by cutting the fibre rovings to lengths of 10-40mm. Another LFT exterior application claims to be the first high-volume use of natural fibre-reinforced LFT for an automotive exterior part, the spare wheel pan cover of a Mercedes-Benz coupe. The Rieter Automotive process incorporates abaca fibre into PP at 180C.
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Record 8: Copyquest order no.
948641
European Plastics News 32, No.8, Sept.2005, p.23 ISSN: 0306-3534 CODEN: EUPNBT
PANEL GAME.
Reade L
Opel recently unveiled the latest version of the Zafira people carrier. Among its new features was a large glass roof, which is produced as a module. The support frame for the glass, made by long fibre injection of PU, is covered with a glossy black polycarbonate film, dispensing with paint. The film, Lexan SLX from GE Plastics, is gaining acceptance as a colouring method for roof panels. The PU support frame has a fibre content of 22%. The film surface has a gloss rating of 110, far higher than painted steel.
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Record 9: Copyquest order no.
948637
European Plastics News 32, No.8, Sept.2005, p.8 ISSN: 0306-3534 CODEN: EUPNBT
PVC REPLACEMENT.
According to a study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, replacing PVC with other materials often leads to poorer products. The study evaluated the use of additives, compounding and a range of processing methods, as well as post-moulding operations such as metallisation, printing and embossing. It concluded that substituting PVC with other materials leads, in many cases, to sub-optimum solutions. The study was commissioned by PlasticsEurope Deutschland and the AgPU association for PVC and the environment. This abstract includes all the information contained in the original article.
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Record 10: Copyquest order no.
948595
Adhasion Kleben und Dichten 48, No.6, 2004, p.34-5 ISSN: 0943-1454
ECONOMIC TEXTILE LAMINATION THANKS TO A SLOTTED NOZZLE EXTRUSION TECHNIQUE.
Brune M (Inatec GmbH)
German
Back-spraying of textiles with PP or ABS for interiors in cars not only places great demands on the adhesive but also on the methods to be used in the task. This article describes a solution with technical emphasis on the equipment. It looks at the non-contact hot-melt task as a film as well as granulate-processing with an extruder, fibrous web lamination and curtain coating.
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Record 11: Copyquest order no.
948594
Adhasion Kleben und Dichten 48, No.6, 2004, p.31-2 ISSN: 0943-1454
USING HOT-MELTS IN THE CAR INTERIOR.
Mallens M (Ems-Griltech)
German
Back-spraying of textiles with PP or ABS for interior panelling in cars is gaining ever more importance. In order to avoid penetration of plastic by a decorative material, a barrier fibrous web is laminated onto the rear side with the help of hot-melt-type adhesives. This article shows how adhesives used for this purpose have to meet special requirements, in order to guarantee desired separating force and optical effect.
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