 paper and polymer film labels
To increase overall profitability and deliver quality products, companies are searching for a cost effective alternative to laminate films. Ecology Coatings’ EcoQuik™ UV-curable coatings can provide a 40 percent savings, reduce waste, and are recyclable. Ecology’s coatings also have distinct performance advantages over competitive overprint coatings and finishes in the print and packaging market.
These performance advantages are enabled by optimum formulation chemistry and by EcoBloc™ (nanotechnology) additives that provide outstanding resistance to household chemicals, paint solvents and high moisture environments, along with thermal shock capability and excellent rub resistance and clarity.
These performance advantages have been demonstrated on paper and polymer film labels produced by a top-five U.S. label converter, and sold to its customers. This has provided a starting point for sales, industry recognition and new contacts in the narrow-web prime label market.
Plastic laminate films enjoy sales in much of this market, as alternatives have not existed—until now. The fact that EcoQuik™ high performance coatings are capable of replacing laminate films dramatically expands the company’s opportunity for coating sales well beyond the current coatings market.
High Performance Coatings To Replace Laminate Films
digital print
Coatings developed for the narrow-web market are now being offered to the digital print market. Digital presses, such as the HP Indigo® press, are capable of producing customized short label runs economically from digital information. Currently, most digital labels and graphics are laminated or coated off-line. Ecology Coatings has demonstrated compatibility with digital ink systems.
Ecology Coatings expects to leverage the high performance barrier properties of EcoQuik™ coatings in the flexible/rigid packaging market, where the print format is much wider than narrow-web presses.
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