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Like roller coating, surface finishings protect your anilox rollers from external effects because – unfortunately – you just can’t avoid all of them. If you want your prints to have prolonged, reliable quality, then get your printing rollers sealed with a protective shield. That’s why our researchers have developed both our protection shield Zechercor and our engraving optimization Zecher C.P.T.:
Increasing demand for optimized anti-corrosion systems in the past prompted us to do some intensive research. The result is our innovative surface finishing that will arm your anilox rollers against avoidable corrosion damage.
We equip corrosion-risk sections of the anilox rollers using a 2-component coating system with a defined layering thickness that is highly resistant to chemicals and abrasions. In addition, a lightly repellent coating surface develops thanks to its adjusted coating matrix with special filler particles. This means the coated component areas are less adhesive, therefore allowing for easier cleaning.
The Expoxy Resin Hardener System, which we are promoting here, is a temperature and chemical-resistant surface finishing that will give your anilox rollers a high level of protection against corrosion and abrasion on diverse substrates, even in aggressive environments. Alongside our Zechercor Corrosion Protection, we provide further surface finishings for your anilox rollers such as hard chrome Plating and I.T.S® roller finishing. Get advice from our experts on the right roller finishing for you!
Our engraving optimization Zecher C.P.T. offers great advantages:
Zecher C.P.T. (Cell Polish Treatment) technology is an innovative solution for improving ceramic anilox rollers. This new method revolutionizes surface treatment after laser engraving and ensures noticeably improved print quality.
Zecher C.P.T. is a thermal finishing process that effectively smoothes out sub-microscopic imperfections such as pores and nano-cracks in the roller surface. This precise thermal intervention “polishes” the cell structure of the anilox roller, which significantly increases the mechanical stability and service life of the rollers.
Zecher C.P.T. is suitable for all ceramic anilox rollers and sleeves and can be seamlessly integrated into existing production processes.
Our surface treatment I.T.S.® offers great advantages:
Our I.T.S.® treatment (Invisible Treatment System) ensures an optimized emptying process, allowing you to significantly improve the performance of your pressure rollers.
The patented surface finish changes the molecular structure of the ceramic material to make it denser. This is not a coating or sealing process, but a special vacuum process based on plasma technology that affects the structure of the chrome or ceramic layer to achieve specific surface properties.
The surface treatment reduces ink contamination from the very beginning by affecting the absorbency of the ceramic layer. Rollers treated with I.T.S.® therefore have a longer service life, improved emptying performance, and are much easier to clean. This particularly applies to ceramic rollers used in conjunction with water-based and 2K ink units. The treatment, which is invisible to the light microscope, does not wear off, does not peel off, and cannot be removed by external influences.
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Nowadays, more and more complex features are required for surfaces. With a trendsetting, hard-chrome plated surface you’ll be able to combine a wide range of mechanical and technical characteristics in one anilox roller coating. With its extreme hardness and high wear and corrosion protection, you’ll be able to use your workpieces for a range of purposes.
Unlike the decorative polished chrome, as used in motorbike parts for example, hard chrome can be applied in considerably thicker layers to allow for several millimeters’ thickness regardless of use. Polished chrome plating has a thickness of only a few thousandths of a millimeter per layer. Depending on how much the chrome-plated workpiece is used mechanically or chemically, the thickness of the chrome layer is usually only between 5 and 500µm. We can even adjust the hardness of the chrome plating to your area of application’s needs and vary it between 900 and 1100HV.
Depending on the workpiece’s use, we apply different chrome plating methods. With our dimensional hard chrome plating, we achieve fitting precision in narrow tolerances without needing to rework the workpieces. Dimensional hard chrome plating also offers many economic advantages as no grinding is required. In contrast, with oversize hard chrome plating we apply a thicker layer of up to 1mm and grind it into dimension. We usually apply this process to workpieces with especially high wear and tear requirements.
Hard chrome plated surfaces can be applied in a diverse range of areas: From the foil industry’s engraved rollers to the food industry’s cooling cylinders and the automotive industry’s shock absorbers, they bring many advantages to many different fields. Hard chrome plating’s anti-adhesive nature is of particular advantage in coating and printing technology. Our hard chrome plating is specially designed to act as a surface finishing for highly complex geometric component shapes and is able to take on the challenge of even the most complicated shapes. Want to know how getting hard chrome plating for your workpieces could benefit your industry? We will be happy to help.
We will be happy to help you find the right surface finish for your anilox roller. Extend the service life of your anilox roller with a protective shield applied by us and rely on the experience of our developers. Contact us to learn more about the possible process optimizations through our surface finishing.
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