Since its founding, UV Curable Materials has been a core-technology and growth platform for PhiChem. Over the years, PhiChem has established itself as a key global player in the world of radiation curable materials, including UV (ultraviolet) and ebeam (electron beam) materials. While early years were mainly focused on UV curable formulations, PhiChem has also steadily established in-house manufacturing capability for key components of the UV curable formulations, including the all-important base resin. Our manufacturing complex in Anqing is a state-of-the-art facility for these materials with >10,000MT/year capability. The main application area for PhiChem resins is in the area of optic fiber and cable coatings. Other region-specific growth areas for this product platform includes Release liner coatings, Plastic surface finishing coatings and Resins for 3D Printing.
UV Curable Optical Fiber Coatings
Since its founding, UV Curable Materials has been a core-technology and growth platform for PhiChem. Over the years, PhiChem has established itself as a key global player in the world of radiation curable materials, including UV (ultraviolet) and ebeam (electron beam) materials. While early years were mainly focused on UV curable formulations, PhiChem has also steadily established in-house manufacturing capability for key components of the UV curable formulations, including the all-important base resin. Our manufacturing complex in Anqing is a state-of-the-art facility for these materials with >10,000MT/year capability. The main application area for PhiChem resins is in the area of optic fiber and cable coatings. Other region-specific growth areas for this product platform includes Release liner coatings, Plastic surface finishing coatings and Resins for 3D Printing.
Primary Fiber Coating: KG100
Product Properties: Fast curing speed, low modulus, superior elongation characteristics
KG100-1D (view Technical Data Sheet)
KG190-4 (view Technical Data Sheet)
Secondary Fiber Coating: KG200
Product Properties: Fast curing speed, high modulus, high glass transition temperatures
KG200-2 (view Technical Data Sheet)
KG290-2 (view Technical Data Sheet)
Low Refractive Index Coating: KG300
Product Properties: Low refractive index, good adhesion to glass, excellent thermal stability
KG300 (view Technical Data Sheet)
Ribbon/Matrix Resin: KG400
Product Properties: Fast curing speed, high modulus
KG400 (view Technical Data Sheet)
Buffered Fiber Matrix: KG500
Product Properties：Fast curing speed, low modulus, easy stripping characteristics, fire retarding
KG500 (view Technical Data Sheet)
Multimode Fiber Coating: KG800
Product Properties：Fast curing speed, low modulus in primary fiber coating, intermediate modulus in secondary fiber coating
K800-1 (view Technical Data Sheet)
These proprietary UV-curable products are manufactured using PhiChem’s state-of-the-art production processes. Rigorous quality control and testing protocols are implemented throughout the process to maintain highest quality.
KI series optical fiber inks are available in the following twelve colors:
KI001(Blue); KI002(Orange); KI003(Green); KI004(Brown); KI005(Slate); KI006(White);
KI007(Red); KI008(Black); KI009(Yellow); KI010(Violet); KI011(Pink); KI012(Aqua)
Optical Fiber Coloring Inks
All twelve colors are in accordance with the Munsell color-order system. We also offer inks with customized colors according to customer’s requirements.
Release Liners
PhiChem leverages its core expertise of developing radiation curing coating materials to manufacture essential materials for several consumer applications. Our acrylic urethane and silicone coating resin and formulation expertise has been used to develop innovative solutions for release-liners on paper and plastic film and decorative coatings on paper. Silicone diacrylates and multi-functional acrylate resins can either be used as a major component or as an additives, for UV and ebeam curable coating formulations in applications such as pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) tape & label release-liners and decorative furniture paper with a considerable reduction in surface tension. These resins enable remarkable tape release properties and increase surface slip and levelling performance.
An overview of PhiChem’s Silicone-acrylate materials can be found here:
PhiChem Silicone Acrylate Resins for Release-liner Applications (View Technical Data Sheet)
Technical datasheets (TDS) for representative products can be found here:
Product code MA6330C (View Technical Data Sheet)
Product code MA6340B (View Technical Data Sheet)
Product code MA6310 (View Technical Data Sheet)
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Other UV Applications
PhiChem has also leveraged its capabilities for making high performance UV curable materials to develop solutions for the plastic surface finishing and 3D Printing industries. While the surface finishing products include complete formulations, for 3D Printing we are primarily focused on developing the resins that can be used in formulations that are utilized in 3D Printers.
UV Coatings for Plastics Surface Finishing
For Plastics Surface Finishing Applications, PhiChem has several series of materials tailored to fit a wide variety of customer needs, including:
- Matt coatings series
- High-gloss coatings series
- Metal-effect coatings series
- Electroplated silver-effect coatings series
- UV vacuum coatings series
- High performance coatings series
- Film products
These products are used in a wide-range of applications, including automotive, appliance, cosmetic and consumer electronics.