With a solution from Kustom Koatings, customers can control friction for smoother application
A Coating Cure for Shrink Sleeve Complications
Mastering slip in shrink sleeves can be a sticky situation. Sending customers converted shrink sleeves that slow down their application line make matters even worse.
Avoid the hassles with our Kustom Koatings solutions, our line of performance coatings. Kustom Koatings boost operational efficiency and cost-effective production. Let’s explore how these custom solutions keep projects flowing in high-speed application lines.
Shrink sleeves are reverse printed, so the ink is on the inside of the plastic packaging film and wraps around the bottle causing it to get sticky. What can happen next? Plastic packaging films won’t slide properly over the bottle in high speed shrink application lines. The answer: Our best coatings for shrink sleeves.
Kustom Koatings KK390 Shrink Sleeve Low COF Gloss UV Coating and KK350W Shrink Sleeve Low COF White are applied after printing to add slip to shrink sleeves, which make them easier to slide over bottles in high-speed applications.
Here are more benefits. KK390 maintains superior gloss and clarity after shrink sleeve processing. KK350W offers exceptional opacity and is a cost-effective alternative to printing additional hits of digital white ink. Additionally, our white coating improves the look of graphics and text while allowing easy application of the finished sleeve.
Kustom Koatings Benefits
- Custom designs and applications
- Quick turnaround times
- Collaborative approach with our technical sales experts
- Low MOQs
- Reliable combination of flexibility with sufficient cure response
- Benzophenone (BZP) free for safety
- Good adhesion to a variety of foils and plastics
Kustom Koatings Control Friction for Smoother Application
Shrink label converters use their existing equipment to produce visually, stunning labels with a 360-degree surface area. However, there can be challenges.
Controlling coefficient of friction (COF) is one obstacle for shrink sleeve applications. COF is the measure of slip, or how one surface moves across another. High COF means it’s less likely to slip or move over a surface. Low COF is what shrink sleeve converters are aiming for to get their printed sleeves to glide over fast-moving bottles on an application line. Some machines run as fast as 700 containers per minute, so in order for the shrink sleeve to quickly cover the bottle or tube, it has to have a low enough COF.
We offer Kustom Koatings solutions that control the amount of friction on a shrink sleeve and avoid logjams. KK390 in clear gloss and KK350W in white, have a lower COF than the competition. In field testing with our customers using HP Indigo inks, these coatings had a COF of below 0.2, below the target COF for most brand owners.
Need more information or a quote? Please contact us for assistance.
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