LINTEC Corporation Announces Four New Adhesive Materials for Labels
September 20, 2017 at 06:45 am EDT
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LINTEC Corporation announced that it will launch four newly developed label adhesive materials sequentially from October 2017. The new products will be on display prior to launch at Labelexpo Europe 2017, the world's large trade show in the label field. Characterized by very strong adhesiveness that enables not only firm affixing to surfaces to which labels are difficult to affix such as rough surfaces, polypropylene, and polycarbonates, making it suitable for uses such as warning labels for electrical devices and security labels. In addition, strong adhesion between two adhesive surfaces makes this labelstock suitable for baggage tags. With an extremely low content of low molecular weight components that can permeate low-barrier plastics and result in contamination of contained liquids, this adhesive is ideal for use with medical and pharmaceutical products. Demand for low-migration labelstocks is expected to increase as medical and pharmaceutical industries increasingly use light and durable plastic containers instead of high-barrier glass containers that break more easily. These labelstocks are extremely thin, with a total thickness of 45 µm for the facestock and adhesive, and adhere firmly to surfaces with complex curves or other irregular features. The facestock is a specialized, non-PVC film, while the label is transparent and weather-resistant, suitable even for outdoor use. The labelstocks are ideal for decorations on racing cars and motorcycles as well as labels on scale models, soft packages and more. These labelstocks consist of a transparent film facestock and a white adhesive that goes black when irradiated with an yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser. As a result, lettering can be produced with laser irradiation on the undersurface of the label. The lettering surface, a part of the adhesive rather than the facestock, is not exposed, which makes it highly resistant to chemicals and abrasion and prevents tampering. This makes the labelstocks ideal for name plates, warning labels, in-process control labels, vehicle identification number (VIN) labels and more.
LINTEC Corporation is a Japan-based company mainly involved in the manufacture and sale of printing material and industrial engineering material related products. The Company operates in three business segments. The Printing and Industrial Material-related segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of adhesive products for seals and labels, label printing machinery, barcode printers, film used for outdoor signages and advertisement, window film, automobile adhesive products and industrial adhesive tape, among others. The Electronic and Optic-related segment provides semiconductor-related adhesive products, semiconductor-related machinery, coating film for laminated ceramic capacitors and optical-related products. The Western Paper and Processing Material-related segment manufactures and sells paper of colorful envelopes, special functional paper, released paper, released film, as well as casting paper for carbon fiber composite materials and synthetic leather.