Fluorination [ Return towards Automotive, Aeronautics & Transportation ]
Do you need to improve the adhesive properties of your plastic products for excellent lacquering, printing or bonding results? Do your plastic or rubber products require a low permeation rate of hydrocarbons or other chemicals? Would you like to provide your plastic products with excellent chemical resistance? Do you need to control emissions of your plastic containers? Would you like to make your plastic products hydrophilic or even more hydrophobic? Would you like to take advantage of rubber with reduced friction coefficient?
Fluorination is a technology that enables you to adjust the surface properties of your plastic and rubber products to meet your specific requirements. Gas phase fluorination provides permanent surface properties like permeation control, adhesion, wettability, paintability, bondability, chemical resistance and low friction. This technology modifies only a thin molecular layer at the surface and completely respects the basic properties of the plastic.
Fluorination can be applied as a blow moulding in-line process or as an off-line process to most types of plastic materials with all kinds of forms and geometries including thin-walled hollow materials.
Fluorination is already employed in many industries such as automotive, packaging, construction or white and brown goods that profit from its numerous advantages:
- Quality gains
Adjustable increase of surface energy
Improvement of adhesive properties
Excellent lacquering, bonding and printing
Adjustable friction properties
Applicable to most types of plastic materials with all types of forms and geometries
Permanent results
- Cost savings
No priming costs
Substitution of solvent based by water based or solventless UV/EB curable lacquers
- Easy Operation
Reproductible results
Fully automated equipment
"Turn key "solutions
- Environmentally gains
Elimination of solvent and VOC emissions
- Fluorination at a glance
The analysis of your requirements and our expertise together with that of our industrial and research partners allow us to provide you with the most cost and quality effective solutions for your business
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