Paint with nanotechnology promises to revolutionize packaging industry

With the experience gained in the development of nanopigmentos for leather industries, textile and automotive, among others, in 2012 the Water Revolution, 100% national company, returned his gaze to the segment of flexography. What your technical staff found is that 100% of the packaging printing on plastic films, aluminum and other substrates work based on organic solvents.
This is because the water-based inks offered adherence and resistance are necessary. As a result, the costs of the manufacturers of this type of packaging rise due to factors such as payment of hazard pay to employees, high fire insurance value and necessity of lamination to isolate the end product-especially food-packaging printed.
With this scenario, the Marketing Director Kátia Coelho opened the presentation of Water Revolution in programming technique of Flexo Latino America 2014-5th International flexography trade fair, corrugated paper and Digital conversion, which took place at the Transamerica Expo Center. According to her, the nanotinta-water-based, released worldwide during the fair, eliminates these environmental and economic problems due to the high adhesion, resistance and gloss compatible with solvent-based inks.
The technical director Paul Hashimoto explained that these characteristics were obtained thanks to the small scale of the particles of the nanopigmentos (dye) and nanopolímeros (resin) of the composition. While conventional paint particles measuring around 5 microns (5 thousandths of a millimeter), the nanotinta arrive only to 300 nanometers (0.3 thousandths of a millimetre). The smaller the particle, the greater the distribution, interaction and contact with the surface, which ensures greater adherence.
From there, manufacturers of packaging can replace printing with solvent-based paint by water-based nanotinta in plastic film and aluminium. Even corrugated packaging-accepting water-based printing-get with the new technology in terms of resistance to abrasion, humidity and temperature-the nanotinta withstands 200 cycles before fade and withstands temperatures ranging from minus 30 C to 300 C.
To make the migration of the current system for the nanotinta, the converters practically do not need additional investment: the cost of adaptation and adjustment of the equipment is virtually zero, and the Water Revolution provides training to employees.
Another advantage for manufacturers is the possibility of benefit with the law of right, federal scope, you slaughter the income tax of enterprises that seek to improve the effectiveness of its products and processes with the use of new technologies, with a view to increasing their competitiveness in domestic and international markets.