VCML Pilot Coater – Installations & News Tokyo Cellolabel Ltd are RK’s most recent customer to order the reel to reel VCML Pilot Coater, in conjunction with their Japanese distributor, Matsuo Sangyo. Cellolabel will utilise the unit for R&D for optical film coating, pressure sensitive adhesive coating among other applications. Having seen an increase in

Sample preparation system and coating technology specialist RK PrintCoat Instruments sponsor Brobygrafiska educational facility in Sweden and supply various proofing devices including their innovative FlexiProof 100/UV.   Brobygrafiska is a graphical school specializing in education in the fields of technics and design for both print and web. Attracting more than 170 students every year, Brobygrafiska

RK PrintCoat Instruments, UK announce their collaboration with with National Centre of Flexible Electronics (FlexE Centre) at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) to design, manufacture and supply a bespoke roll-to-roll (R-2-R) pilot line for their latest R&D and prototyping projects in the field of printed and flexible electronics. About RK Print RK Print was

DSM Resins & Coatings install a VCM from RK Print, at their site in the Netherlands. André Goos, Global Technical Application Manager at DSM “RK Print Coat Instruments Ltd offered great flexibility for the custom made design of our new coating machine. We are very delighted to have the new VCM pilot coating line commissioned.

LED UV FLEXIPROOF DEVELOPMENT The concept of UV curing involves using an energy source to bring about a physical-stage shift of ink from a liquid to a solid and opaque form. Or to put it another way, to manipulate light (energy) to penetrate a thick pigment ink film, which is actually designed to prevent the

RK PRINT COAT INSTRUMENTS SPONSORS A WINNER AT LE MANS Around 250,000 spectators including, sponsors’ RK Print Coat Instruments watched as Ben Barker of the Parr Motorsport team took the lead during the final lap of this 62 car race to win the Porsche Carrera Cup GB/Carrera Cup France at Le Mans on Sunday June

The IPEX show in Birmingham served as the launch pad for the introduction of the latest generation colour communication system from RK Print Coat Instruments – the quality control, product development and print/coat/ laminating technology specialist. The K Gravure Proofer is a compact bench top device that enables users of press viscosity gravure ink to

To the uninitiated or those with only a minor knowledge of coating, the aims of a coating practitioner seem relatively easy to define: one must deposit a specially formulated fluid substance onto a high-speed (usually) web (substrate) and then dry it or cure it. If asked if that was all there was to coating, they

According to Tom Kerchiss, Managing Director of RK Print Coat Instruments, the colour communication and print/coat/laminate technology specialist: coating is a fast moving and more often than not a situation specific field, which can make it difficult for product manufacturers, their research and development personnel and for their suppliers – to be knowledgeable across the

RK Print Coat Instruments Ltd, the colour communication and print/coat monitoring and product development technology specialist will show the NEW Paste Ink Proofer (PIP) with integrated UV curing capability at Labelexpo, Brussels – September 23rd -26th. The Paste Ink Proofer (PIP) with UV curing provides for quick, repeatable and highly accurate proofing of UV litho