PURERAD™ Adhesives & Coatings
PURERAD Adhesives & Coatings Overview
PURERAD Compatibility & Application Methods
PURERAD products are primarily used for narrow web label applications and work well for the mid web and wide web market that involve food packaging* and other specialty applications. Additionally, they are compatible with various inks, including water-based, UV/EB, solvent and digital. PURERAD products can be applied via many web-based or sheet-fed methods, including:
- Flexographic
- Gravure
- Lithographic
- Roll coater
*Subject to migration testing
Bostik's PURERAD Adhesives & Coatings Benefits & Featured Products
PURERAD Benefits
Unlike competitive thermal technologies, PURERAD products do not require heat to cure. Rather, they are based on an energy-curable technology and offer:
- Streamlined production efficiencies: They are instant curing, which means no heat is needed, and no components need to evaporate first before moving onto the next production stage.
- Reduced environmental impact: PURERAD products are formulated with nearly 100% solids. This makes product shipments more effective and fuel efficient compared to lower solids products. Additionally, more product is viable per package, which reduces waste. Further, because our products cure via mercury, LED and EB lamps, less energy is used compared to technologies that require thermal drying processes.
- Improved aesthetics: Our coatings are formulated to offer high gloss and scratch resistance to help maintain overall product quality.
Why Choose PURERAD from Bostik?
- Custom formulation capabilities: Bostik offers a wide range of raw materials and the flexibility to quickly custom tailor PURERAD products when applicable to address specific performance and processing requirements. In addition to meeting customers’ many custom use cases, this process allows us to acquire a broad range of products. As a result, we have many PURERAD products that meet varied run speeds, equipment requirements and applications on-hand. However, if we don’t, we can work with you to help meet your needs.
- One-stop-shop: As the global adhesives segment of Arkema, Bostik offers the market’s most complete pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) portfolio worldwide. These PSAs can be used alongside PURERAD products for the same applications, helping reduce supplier and logistics complexities and making it easy to get the adhesives and coatings customers want when and where they need them.
- Technical excellence: In addition to our extensive analytical capabilities and manufacturing redundancies, Bostik has a toxicologist on staff for food safety vetting on all UV/EB PURERAD products, among others.
PURERAD Product Categories
Our PURERAD products are categorized as follows:
Permanent Bond Laminating Adhesives
Primary uses: wet nip laminating of clear substrates
Pressure Sensitive Adhesives
Primary uses: dry nip laminating of opaque substrates
Overprint Varnishes
Primary uses: ink protection in gloss or matte format
Functional Coatings
Primary uses: various functional applications, such as direct thermal, thermal transfer, release-modified, multi-wall bag and high-scuff/chemical resistance.
Primers
Primary uses: print and substrate priming
Haptics and Specialty
Primary uses: embellishment and specialty applications
Release coatings
Primary uses: linerless labels, business forms and extended content labels
Dry Peel Laminating Adhesives
Primary uses: breakaway coupon constructions
Ready to learn more about how our PURERAD products can help your application needs?