What coating is right for your product?

What coating is right for your product?

          Coatings can be used in many industries, such as packaging, automotive, electronics and appliances. The role of the coating is mainly to gas barrier, ultraviolet light, water barrier, rust and protect the surface of the product. We are a packaging coating company, we will introduce the coating through the physical properties, safety performance and environmental protection from three perspectives.

        Frist of all,We need to ask ourselves a question, does my product need a coating?.  If the answer is YES that we need to ask ourselves the second question,Why does my product need a coating?

        Now, your inner answer must be this:

        My product is coated to protect my product and to bring a better product experience to our customers.

        But do you know what coatings is right for your product?

        We will analyze the coating from three angles as abelow, which are like a pyramid, hoping that it can be helpful to your product.

         1.PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

          Product is like a pyramid, and the physical properties is a basic of pyramid.  We have listed the following physical properties, you can determine your physical propertie requirements according to the characteristics of the product.

          ●Liquid barrier

          ●Gas barrier

          ●Improve material toughness

          ●Improve surface brightness

          ●Heat sealing

          ●Wear resistance

          ●Weather resistance

          ●No static electricity

          ●Laser puncture resistance

          .............

          You can choose more than two phycixal properties as your standard.

          In addition, each product has different levels of physical properties requirements, and higher physical properties indicators may bring higher costs at the same time, so for selecting the appropriate coating to meet the physical indicators of the product, it is necessary to test according to the standards required by the product.

          2.SAFETY PERFORMANCE

          Safety performance is a link basic and top. Because the coating to achieve very good physical properties or contain a variety of physical properties, it may need to add one or more substances, and the substance may produce a certain type or types of harm to nature or human body.

         If your product needs to come into contact with food or human skin, the coating needs to have qualified safety properties. Developing coatings with both safety and physical properties is challenging for coating research and development.

        How to confirm whether the coating has safety performance, it is necessary to give the coating raw materials to an internationally recognized professional laboratory for testing and issue a specific test report.

        3.ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

         Environmentally friendly is a top of the pyramid. Without taking into account physical properties and safety properties, the coating can easily achieve environmentally friendly standards. However, if both physical properties and safety performance need to be taken into account, the difficulty of coating needs to meet environmental friendly standards is quite high.

        Because environmentally friendly means that the product can be easily decomposed into substances such as carbon dioxide and water in nature like leaves, while the decomposition process does not release substances harmful to the environment and organisms.

       For example, at present, coating applied to paper packaging is a new development, it is to replace plastic so that paper packaging can have good physical properties and safety performance, but also need not damage the earth's environment and organisms. 

      Although the development direction of coating application in paper packaging is very good, this product on the market is mixed, and there is no unified standard, which increases the difficulty of product developers to purchase.

      How to choose an environmentally friendly coating, we can only give the raw materials of the coating to an internationally recognized professional laboratory for testing and issuing an authoritative test report.However, if the coated finished product is tested, its experimental results will be improved, so the test of the coating raw material alone can truly reflect the proportion of harmful substances released by the coating during the simulated natural decomposition process in the experimental environment.

      I hope this article will be helpful to readers.