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UV Curing Labels and Stickers
UV-cured silicone release coatings provide a crucial non-stick layer on release liners, ensuring that labels and stickers peel off smoothly and efficiently without damaging the adhesive or the substrate.
Labels and stickers are used across countless industries, from retail and packaging to industrial settings, and their reliability depends on how well they adhere and release.
The Role of UV-Cured Silicone Release Coatings
Silicone coatings can be cured quickly and uniformly using UV light, providing a seamless, non-stick surface. The result is an adhesive product that:
Maintains substrate integrity: Prevents damage to the underlying surface during label application or removal.
Peels off cleanly: Ensures no tearing, bubbling, or adhesive residue remains on the release liner.
Preserves adhesive properties: Keeps the adhesive intact, ensuring labels and stickers stick firmly to their final destination.
Why UV Curing?
- Faster Production: UV curing completes in seconds, speeding up the manufacturing process for labels and stickers.
- Energy Efficient: It consumes far less energy than traditional thermal curing methods.
- Consistent Quality: UV curing provides even curing across the surface, ensuring uniform performance every time.
UV-cured silicone release coatings deliver reliability, efficiency, and superior product performance for packaging or industrial labeling.
Xtrema Plus
Featuring a 10-inch electrodeless lamp powered by a 6000 Watt power supply, this system incorporates a user-friendly design for ease of installation, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Manufacturers trust Xtrema to cure even the most optically dense inks and coatings—all while using less lamps and consuming less energy than other systems.
- The form factor that allows for multiple lamps to be mounted for 360-degree coverage.
- Serviceability: Miltec designed the system (lamp module and power supply) for self-service by our customers. There is no need to send a unit to a depot. Eliminate the need to send power supplies oversees for costly and time-consuming repairs.
- Highest levels of UV power (600 Watts-Per-Inch).
- Innovative advances in the technology, such a Miltec UV’s ADV (honeycomb pattern) RF Screens.
- Cost of spare parts: since Miltec UV manufactures the consumable parts, we are the lowest cost of ownership supplier in North America.
- Bulbs are 100% tested.
- 24-hour support from Miltec UV associates in the US.
Systems & Technology
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Spare Parts for Existing Systems
We provide UV replacement parts including bulbs, screens, reflectors, and magnetrons for microwave UV systems. In most cases, your order ships the day it is received.
APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT & TESTING LAB
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Work alongside our Ph.D. chemists, engineers, and UV experts in our fully equipped UV Curing Applications Laboratory to develop new processes, achieve cost reduction, and improve production workflows for your application.
