Foil aluminium Laminating lines
Among all its properties, foil Laminating with other materials enhances the product integrity thanks to its water and heat resistance, opacity for light sensitive products and vapor barrier characteristics.
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Laminated foil is a thin ferrous and non-ferrous metal laminated to a variety of materials including Plastics films such as Polyester (PET), Polypropylene (PP) and Polyethylene (PE) but also papers and boards, other special materials and fabrics such as nonwoven, rock wool, etc.
The applications for laminated foil include food flexible packaging, medical and pharmaceutical, automotive, construction and technical and technology applications for manufacture from satellites to solar panels.
Laminated foils with paper and boards are also used for premium consumer goods packaging such as fine spirits, tobacco, confectionary or beauty products.
Besides Laminating, our lines can be equipped with other coating process or in-line processes such as Embossing, Printing, Perforation, etc.
Foil aluminium Laminating lines processes
At ILAMCO, we have developed important engineering and process know-how in aluminium foil coating and laminating and we manufacture customized lines adapted to specific requirements.
Winding
- Single or turret with flying splice at max. production speed.
- Shaftless (mostly used) or shafted.
- Roll diameters up to 1600 mm.
- Perfect winding accuracy according to material thickness.
- Flying splicing systems for automatic turret unwinders and rewinder.
- Programmable tensions adapted to specific materials and web path.
Web Treatment
- Embossing with customized patterns:
- Steel/steel rollers.
- Steel/paper.
- Rubber for foil aluminium applications.
- Vacuum rollers or belts.
- Primer on one or both sides of the web.
- Corona treatment.
- Specific tension control in multiple points of the web path (with tension handling elements such as dancer rolls or additional nips for tension isolation of line sections).
Coating
- Multiple coating materials depending on desired properties:
- Different kind of adhesives including for example: hot melt, PBA or any other thermoplastic adhesive as a tie layer.
- Primers for lamination and printing.
- Coating widths of a few millimeters up to 2200mm.
- Coating weights of 0.5 g/m² to 50 g/m².
- Coating media with a wide range of viscosities and different solvents:
- Water based.
- Solvent based.
- Solid 100% (hotmelt).
- Coating speeds of 0.1 m/min to 400 m/min.
- Pre or self-metered coating methods.
- Coating systems:
- Mayer bar.
- Roll over roll.
- Rotogravure.
- Kiss coating.
- Direct gravure.
- Offset roll.
- Curtain.
- Slot die.
- Comma bar.
- Others variations.
Laminating
- Wet or dry laminating-
- Single and multiple layer laminations for many applications (packaging, construction…)
Drying
- Flotation drying modules:
- Contactless transport of the substrate through a sinusoidal effect generated by the arrangement of the air blowing nozzles.
- Special nozzles design ensure efficient energy transfer on both sides of the substrate.
- Drying modules with roller transportation:
- Driven or not driven guide rollers.
- Laminar air flow.
- High speed air nozzles.
- Water or solvent based coatings.
- Independent and sectorized regulation for air speed, temperature and recirculation in each drying hood and section to optimize drying performance and energy consumption.
- IR/UV hood systems.
- Heat generation systems:
- Gas
- Steam
- Thermal oil
Calander
- High gloss motorized and temperature regulated calanders.
- Pressure and adjustable gap system to ensure perfect result and material differential handling depending on thickness, substrates and contact angles.
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