8. Light-curing inks
8.1 Introduction
The coating, inks and adhesives industries are facing increasingly stringent constraints in terms of solvent emissions, drying times, energy consumption and final product properties.
The use of radiation (UV or electron beam) to polymerize and thus dry the ink film is a highly satisfactory response to these constraints.
The vehicle used in photopolymerizable inks is similar in structure to that used in conventional inks (a binder and a diluent), but its chemical nature is quite different. It contains prepolymers, monomers and a photoinitiator.
Under the action of suitably selected UV radiation, the photoinitiators decompose and a very rapid chain polymerization...
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Manufacturers
(non-exhaustive list)
A list of the main ink manufacturers located in France can be found on the AFEI (Association des fabricants d'encres d'imprimerie) website. http://www.fipec.org/afei
Brancher inks
...Professional organizations
• AFEI (Association des fabricants d'encres d'imprimerie) http://www.fipec.org/afei
• EuPIA (European Printing Ink Association), sous-groupe de CEPE(European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry) : http://www.cepe.org...
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