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POWERCOAT® PAPER FROM ARJOWIGGINS CREATIVE PAPERS RETURNS TO PRINTED ELECTRONICS
USA 2013 WITH FOUR MAJOR INDUSTRY AWARDS AND TWO GROUND-BREAKING NEW RANGES
Arjowiggins Creative Papers extends the market for POWERCOAT®,
its flexible, ultra smooth, 100% recyclable paper for printed electronics,
with new weights and definitions for premium and high volume applications
*November 2013* – Just one year after Arjowiggins Creative Papers’ ultra smooth, 100% recyclable paperPowerCoat® stormed the printed electronics market with its seamless integration of electronic functionality and printed graphics, this remarkable paper returns to Printed Electronics USA 2013 (20 – 21 November) with two exciting ranges and four major prizes.
The two new ranges are:PowerCoat® HD PowerCoat® XD
The ranges offer new opportunities for the original PowerCoat® paper launched at Printed Electronics USA 2012. The first is a range based on the original premium product, while the new XD range offers exciting possibilities for high volume markets, offering an affordable and environmentally sustainable alternative to PET. Both ranges continue to deliver superb print quality with reduced consumption of expensive inks.
PowerCoat® HDThis is the original patented PowerCoat® product, now available in two standard paper weights: 95µm and 230µm. Additionally, Arjowiggins Creative Papers can develop customised products, adapted to the needs of the customer. This continues to be the perfect partner for those applications requiring excellent definition with superb electronic functionality and graphics quality.
The products in this range are ultra-smooth and yield outstanding results in inkjet and vacuum deposited techniques where ink/material coating thickness is below 1µm and pattern details can go below 5µm.
Its assets include:• Extremely low usage of expensive materials/inks• High sintering capabilities in air, photonic and thermal processes• High thermal stability in colour and dimension• Excellent mechanical strength across a wide range of temperatures• Available in sheet and reel formats, compatible across all printing techniques
It is ideal for items that require high resolution patterning for sensors, complex circuitry and capacitors, for example, and for applications that include micro-electronics and electro-plating. It is compatible across a full range of printing techniques, delivering superb performances with Inkjet, Flexo, Gravure, Screen Printing and Laser Ablation processes.
PowerCoat® XDThis is a valuable newcomer in the printed electronics market. It offers a completely new range of interactive papers designed for printing techniques that require lower definition and material deposition, such as labelling, ticketing and other high volume items. This paper is again available in sheet and reel formats and shares with the HD range a number of valuable characteristics including:
• High thermal stability in colour and dimension• High sintering capabilities in air, photonic and thermal processes• 100% recyclable
This is an ideal substrate for Screen Printing, Roll-to-Roll Flexo, Gravure and Offset printing techniques.
Four Times a WinnerPowerCoat® arrives at Printed Electronics USA with a new accolade: winner of a prestigious World Technology Award. This is the fourth prize awarded to the paper in just 12 months. It is also the proud recipient of an award for Innovative Excellence from the InterTech Awards of The Printing Industries of America, a “Product Development Award” from the IDTechEx Printed Electronics Europe/Graphene LIVE 2013 Awards and the title “Paper and Board Innovation of the Year” from Packaging and Converting Intelligence. PowerCoat® has been inducted into the Material Connexion® international Library, reserved for highly innovative and sustainable materials.
Partners at Printed Electronics USA 2013At Printed Electronics USA, Arjowiggins Creative Papers will be co-hosting a booth with CERADROP. Here, PowerCoat® HD will be demonstrated using copper ink coupled with sintering, using NOVACENTRIX technology.
PowerCoat® will also be the substrate of choice on the following partner stands: • the ADPHOS stand ( B04) – live demonstrations are expected to take place• the AGFA stand (F09) – HD and XD samples printed with AGFA Orgacon nanosilver ink using screen printing
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About PowerCoat®
PowerCoat® is a revolutionary resource that supports the rapidly expanding printed electronics sector, which is expected to grow exponentially over the next 20 years. The paper facilitates the integration of a whole range of electronic functions into graphics, from embedded RFID tags to more complex intelligent functionalities, and offers unlimited potential in the medical, food, pharmaceutical, electronics, education, science, packaging, design and communications industries, amongst others.
The paper has a sustainable substrate with polymer-like smoothness (as low as 10 nanometers) that offers excellent printability and ink adhesion properties without any plastic content. Its fine surface allows high-resolution fine patterning (down to 5µm) of any solution-based electronic layer. Thanks to its natural roll-to-roll capability, it is also possible to produce large area flexible products in a continuous printing process.
Using existing pressroom environments and processes, the remarkable thermal stability of the paper allows for precision control during sintering (the process which fuses conductive inks to the substrate). Its structure can withstand the high temperatures required for low-resistance silver ink without the discolouration experienced by other papers on the market, and significantly reduces the consumption of these expensive inks.
With its natural properties and incredible smoothness, PowerCoat® makes way for more efficient use of expensive chemicals and inks and is 100% recyclable, biodegradable and FSC certified1, allowing not only tremendous saving on the cost of production but also a significant reduction in environmental impact.
PowerCoat® is the ideal solution for:• Resistors, capacitors, self-inductance and other passive components• More efficient creation of RFID antennae where less ink can be used• Sensing technology such as walls and handheld devices• Electrodes for batteries, circuitry for display, lighting etc• Integration of intelligent functionality in disposable labelling, tickets and packaging
The intrinsic characteristics of PowerCoat®, including its ultra-smoothness, tearability (depending on the weight) and its amazing capabilities of quick photonic sintering, enable a wide range of applications in any sector with a potential cross-over between the real and the virtual, from advertising, communication/media, design and packaging to the medical, textile, food and pharmaceutical industries. These can range from high volume applications to very demanding applications.
For more information please visit www.powercoatpaper.com
Jose-Anne d’[email protected]
or Gael Depres [email protected]
1: © 1996 Forest Stewardship Council A.C.The mark of responsible forestry.
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About Arjowiggins Creative PapersArjowiggins Creative Papers is a leading fi ne papers manufacturer. It has 1,300 employees and its products are distributed in 82 countries. Products in the Arjowiggins Creative Papers portfolio continually achieve best-in-category performance for paper capability and print performance and are globally available. Each range offers a high quality fi nish for a wide variety of applications. All of Arjowiggins Creative Papers’ brands have been FSC certifi ed since June 2008, and the company is constantly expanding its recycled paper ranges. Arjowiggins Creative Papers has an unwavering commitment to work alongside both customers and suppliers to continue to innovate through their range of inspiring papers and in the way they do business. This is supported by The Blank Sheet Project, an inspirational platform that challenges us all to think creatively about how we will leave our mark in a way that is socially, economically and environmentally responsible. Details can be found at www.arjowigginscreativepapers.com and www.theblanksheetproject.com.Arjowiggins Creative Papers is a member of AFELIM (French Association of Printed Electronics) as well as a member of the OE-A, the leading international industry association for organic and printed electronics which brings together more than 200 companies from Europe, North America, Asia and Australia to promote the establishment of a competitive production infrastructure for organic and printed electronics. The OE-A was founded in December 2004 and is a working group within the VDMA (German Engineering Federation). Details can be found at: www.oe-a.org
About CERADROPCERADROP designs and markets inkjet printers exclusively for the Printed Electronics Industry. Embedding all types of print heads as well as the latest generation of curing modules, CeraPrinter Series models present new opportunities for feasibility study and launch of new products onto the Printed Electronics market in fi elds such as: fl exible solar cells (OPV), OLED Displays, Smart Cards, Antennas, Smart Systems, Passive Components etc. Based on its bottom-up approach, CERADROP offers inkjet printing equipment which adapts to electronic materials to be deposited as well as to complex components designed to be printed thanks to its exclusive software, CeraSlice.Achieving more than 40% of its turnover from exports and providing a unique process support to its customers, CERADROP makes easier and more effi cient use of inkjet printing technology for printed electronics worldwide.
Contact: [email protected]
About AgfaThe Agfa-Gevaert Group develops, manufactures and distributes an extensive range of analogue and digital imaging systems and IT solutions, mainly for the printing industry and the healthcare sector, as well as for specifi c industrial applications.Agfa’s headquarters and parent company are located in Mortsel, Belgium.The Group’s operational activities are divided into three independent business groups, Agfa Graphics, Agfa HealthCare and Agfa Specialty Products. All business groups have strong market positions, well-defi ned strategies and full responsibilities, authority and accountability.Agfa-Gevaert has production facilities around the world, with the largest production and research centres in Belgium, the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and China.Agfa is commercially active worldwide through wholly owned sales organizations in more than 40 countries. In countries where Agfa does not have its own sales organization, the market is served by a network of agents and representatives.The Agfa-Gevaert Group achieved a turnover of 3,091 million Euro in 2012.
Contact: [email protected]/orgacon
About adphosadphos’ proprietary and widely patented adphosNIR® systems technology allows compact optimum drying, curing and sintering solutions for almost all thermal liquid and solid coatings. This includes both sheet and continuous web, even for molded and other 3D-components and for different kind of substrates. The adphosNIR® systems technology is successfully proven in a wide range of applications by more than 2,000 production systems and can be easily adapted to production scale by analytical scale up of laboratory based and verifi ed thermal process confi gurations.
www.adphos.de
