Polymer structure, mist control, tailored release all key factors in high-speed silicone coating for p-s label converting & use

Alex Nevels

Silicone suppliers must continue to focus on the new trends and drivers that challenge our current technologies. There is a strong market need for higher production effi ciency to improve cost and sustainability, and these advancements in coating and converting processes require silicones to evolve to address new requirements. Mist control and flat release force are the key technical performance hurdles for silicones to perform well under these more-demanding processing conditions. Silicone-release coating suppliers must create silicone-release coatings specifi cally for performance at high coater and converter speeds.

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