UV/EB Coatings & Inks: Optimizing Curing in Practice

Upgrading your UV/EB coatings & inks curing process is significant to ensure better performance and to stand out from the competition. Often, you may end up focusing only on a few formulation parameters such as initiator, polymer type, viscosity, etc. You also need to consider other factors and impact of components (light spectrum, oxygen inhibition, cationic initiators...) within the entire process otherwise you will have poor final performance in UV Curing!

Join this course and:

1. Tailor the curing speed of your coatings & inks by reviewing all the factors affecting curing performance & cost.


2. Avoid unwanted interference with UV stabilizers, scratch / mar resistance… by understanding the impact of formulation components on curing process.


3. Solve your UV curing issues (incomplete, too slow, too fast) by better analysing the root cause and knowing the right parameters to adjust (chemistry, curing temperature, humidity….).


4. Get the key to step-by-step creation of new UV coating formulation.


5. Understand how the combination of coatings raw materials, UV equipment and ambient conditions affect UV curing and thus your final coating function.

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This course is ideally suited for UV/EB coatings & inks formulators with at least 1 or more years of experience. In addition, it is also beneficial for people considering switching to rad-cure technology .

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This course will take an all-encompassing approach to the development and commercialization of a radiation cured coating.

The following points will be discussed:

1. Formulation components & their effect on curing performance & cost
        • Binders
        • Photoinitiators
        • Catalysts
        • Successful combinations to best suit UV equipment


2. Radiation cure methods / sources & factors that impact cost
        • EB Vs. UV irradiation methods
        • Traditional UV Arc Lamps vs. LEDs
        • Key factors impacting curing process (wavelength, peak intensity, exposure time…)


3. Impact of ambient conditions on curing performance
        • Temperature
        • Humidity
        • Line speed
4. Creating step-by-step a new UV Coating Formulation


5. Troubleshooting poor curing performance
        • Identifying the origin of the problem
        • Solving strategies depending on the problem root cause
          (chemistry, equipment or ambient conditions)


6. 30 mins Q&A- Interact live/ ask questions directly from the expert!

After the components have been discussed, they will be wrapped together using a recently completed project as an example. The example case was the development of a flexible UV cured coating/sealant development for food packaging*.
*3 patents: US20110210163 | US20110211778 | EP2361761A1

About the Expert

Mike Clingerman (Senior Research Scientist) has over 30 years’ experience in a range of polymer, coatings, adhesives and sealants arenas. He worked on a projection that involved the invention of a polymer, largely bio-based, for low temperature powder coatings (a 2008 R&D 100 award winner); security coatings; and a recently patented* “smart” UV cured adhesive/sealant for packaging. It was this last radiation-cure project and observations from years of commercializing a wide range of products that lead to development of this course.

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