Paper coating

Special solvent pastes designed for use with specific formulations are available for use in gravure, flexo and screen printing inks. Selection is based on the printing process and drying speed requirements, as well as on the substrate limitations.

PP aluminium powders are brilliant leafing aluminium powders for gravure, flexo and screen printing applications.

For improved processing safety, pastes that contain solvents or water-based pastes are also available.

The Aquador® series includes stabilized water-based pastes in a fineness range of 5–50 µm. They are successfully used in water-based gravure, flexo and screen printing inks.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request) Form of delivery: Water pastes

Stabilized, non-leafing aluminium water pastes with various particle morphology (both "cornflakes" and "silver dollars") for water-based gravure, flexo and screen printing inks.

Stabilized, leafing aluminium water pastes for water-based gravure, flexo and screen printing inks with gassing stability.

Inorganic coated gold bronze pigments that have a significantly higher resistance to temperature and chemicals than the basic pigments in the Luminor® series. They are primarily used in screen printing inks with aggressive formulation components and for high resistance requirements.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request) Form of delivery: Powders

Decomet® is the product name for vacuum metalized pigments (VMPs) by SCHLENK. The manufacturing process makes these pigments extremely thin, and in appearance they are extremely smooth and highly reflective when being applied on foils.

Decomet pigments can be used in sheetfed offset, gravure, flexo and screen printing inks. They can achieve effects similar to those produced with metalized substrates and foils, and because they are non-leafing, the effects can also be tinted with color pigments. Special compositions for water-based and UV curable inks complete the range of this highly attractive product range.

Special solvent pastes designed for use with specific formulations are available for use in gravure, flexo and screen printing inks. Selection is based on the printing process and drying speed requirements, as well as on the substrate limitations.

Grandal® W are aluminium granules for water borne systems based on non-leafing aluminium pigments.

Grandal® products are aluminium pellets offered by SCHLENK and typically consist of approx. 95% pigment and 5% binder. They allow dust-free processing, are easy to dose and disperse, and can be used in a variety of formulations because unlike pastes they do not contain specific solvents.

Both leafing and non-leafing aluminium pigments are available in this delivery form, along with Grandal W versions for water-based printing inks and in the Grandal 170 for energy curable systems.

The Grandor® types are pigment preparations in pellet form consisting of approx. 95% pigment and 5% binder for solvent based gravure, flexo and screen printing inks. The Grandor W series (with a water soluble carrier resin) are available for water-based systems.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request) Form of delivery: Dust-free pellets that are easy to dose.

The relatively coarse types in the Luminor® series (d50 from 20 – 50 µm) are primarily used in the screen printing process and, due to their particle sizes, they produce highly brilliant metallic effects.

Form of delivery: Powder and water-based Aquador compositions in paste form (conventional solvents by request).

Metaface® aluminium powders that provide high brilliance, good coverage and excellent printability. They are available as powders, water-based pastes or UV pastes.

Metaprint® FlexoCare Aqua Gold & Silver is an innovative press ready metallic ink series that delivers state of the art printing performance. The new inks are suitable for low migration food packaging printing applications on paper and cardboard.

The pigments in the Multiprint® series are in a fineness range from 4 to 10 µm and correspond with the optical requirements, the desired coverage and the process parameters on the printing machine.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request) Form of delivery: Powder, pastes in ethyl acetate (or other solvents), as water-based Aquador® pastes, as UV pastes and as Grandor® granules for solvent based printing inks and Grandor® W for water-based printing inks. Use in gravure and flexo printing inks and in screen printing.

The Offset® series includes aluminium pigments with an average particle size from 4 to 10 µm and gold bronze pigments with an average particle size from 2 to 3.5 µm.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request) Form of delivery: Powder or paste in mineral oil for conventional offset printing or in polymerizable monomers for UV curable systems.

The Unicoat® series a fineness range > 10 µm is primarily used in screen printing.

Colors: Rich gold, rich pale gold and pale gold (other colors by request). Form of delivery: Powder and water-based Aquador compositions in paste form (typical ink solvents by request).