In recent years, the adhesive market in China has grown rapidly. At present, adhesive manufacturers are looking for innovative solutions that meet high standards in terms of quality, durability and sustainability, so as to maintain a dominant position in the increasingly competitive adhesive market.
Since 2010, under the guidance of relevant national laws and regulations, solvent-free composite process has developed rapidly in the domestic flexible packaging industry with its advantages of safety, health, environmental protection, energy saving, high efficiency and low cost. Especially in the past two years, whether it is solvent-free composite production line or the adhesive used, are growing at a multiple rate.
The application of solvent-free polyurethane adhesive will not only drive the development of adhesive industry, but also drive the rapid development of machinery manufacturing industry. This paper briefly analyzes the production and use characteristics of solvent-free polyurethane adhesive, hoping to help the industry.
Production and application characteristics of solvent free polyurethane adhesive
1. Good usability
At the operating temperature, the mixed viscosity of solvent-free polyurethane adhesive is below 1000MPa · s, and the actual operation time is more than 30min, which makes up for the shortage of solvent-free adhesive which needs high temperature coating. It has a certain strength bonding force to a variety of composite materials, such as PE, BOPP, CPP, pet, NY, PVDC, etc; It has good resistance to 100 ℃ water boiling (121 ℃), acid resistance, salt resistance and oil resistance, and can be cured by heat or normal temperature. It is easy to operate and has good application performance.
2. Safety and hygiene
Solvent based adhesive is used for dry lamination. Generally, 80 ℃ drying channel is used to quickly dry the coating layer, and then composite. In the drying process, a large number of organic solvents will volatilize into the environment, causing environmental pollution. The residual nonvolatile organic solvents will be trapped in the composite film, on the one hand, it will reduce the adhesive strength of the composite film, on the other hand, it will slowly migrate to the inner surface of the composite film, polluting the inner packaging food.
The use of solvent-free polyurethane adhesive has no organic solvent volatilization and no irritating smell. There is no residual solvent problem in the composite products. There is no odor and toxicity problem. Moreover, the corrosion of organic solvent on printing ink is eliminated. At the same time, the use of solvent-free polyurethane adhesive to achieve clean production, conducive to environmental protection. In addition, because the solvent-free polyurethane adhesive does not contain organic solvent, there is no risk of fire and explosion, no explosion-proof measures are needed, and the equipment and warehouse for storing solvent are also omitted.
It is worth mentioning that the raw materials used in solvent-free polyurethane adhesive must comply with the provisions of fda175.105 and GB 9685-2003 "Hygienic standard for the use of additives for food containers and packaging materials" stipulates that there are no toxic and harmful additives or additives to human body, and each batch of raw materials must be strictly tested before use to ensure that all properties are fully up to standard before production.
3. Saving energy and reducing cost
Solvent free polyurethane adhesive can significantly reduce the production cost of the composite film
(1) Compared with dry-type composite membrane equipment, solvent-free composite equipment has the advantages of simple equipment, small occupied area, low raw materials, low maintenance cost and low investment cost.
(2) In the process of compounding, there is no need to remove the organic solvent in the adhesive through the drying channel, so the energy saving is remarkable.
(3) The amount of glue per unit area is less (only 1.5-2.0 g / m2) and the cost of adhesive is low. The amount of adhesive per unit area of solvent-free composite is about two fifths of that of dry composite. Therefore, although the price of solvent-free composite adhesive may be 70% higher than that of dry composite adhesive, the cost of solvent-free composite adhesive per unit area is about 30% lower than that of dry composite adhesive.
(4) The speed of production line has been improved obviously. The highest speed of solvent-free composite can reach 480 M / min, which is also more than 200m / min.
Based on the above reasons, the production and processing cost of solvent-free composite process is much lower than that of dry composite process, about 50% or less.
If the proportion of solvent-free composite technology in the composite market in China can reach 80% - 90% as that in foreign countries in the next 10-20 years, the economic and social benefits brought by solvent-free adhesives will be huge.
Dongguan Beite packaging materials Co., Ltd. - located in Dongguan City, the world's manufacturing city, is a subsidiary of Beite packaging (China) Co., Ltd., with a plant area of 6000 square meters. It is a flexible packaging enterprise integrating R & D, production and sales. It has a complete set of domestic advanced production equipment, a scientific and humanized management system and a group of experienced technical personnel For backing, to provide customers with quality products and first-class service.
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