UV Curing Hotmelt Adhesives Delivers Production and Performance Gains

Presented by Jennifer Heathcote, GEW Inc.

UV curable hotmelt adhesives are used in the production of tapes and labels, packaging, personal care products, industrial items, and other web converted goods. Ultraviolet curing is an environmentally friendly, broad purpose manufacturing tool used to rapidly polymerize adhesives and other coatings applied to diverse material substrates and constructions. UV curing offers converters numerous process, economic, and performance benefits that are simply not possible with alternative curing and drying technologies. This paper introduces the fundamentals of UV curable hotmelt technology and addresses benefits to converters.'