Helios Quartz Group SA products

The Mercury Medium Pressure UV Lamps are appreciated mainly for two applications: For UV curing and drying, For UV disinfection and oxidation.

The name Wood Lamp (named after the American scientist Robert Williams Wood), or Black Light, refers to a light source that emits electromagnetic radiation predominantly in the range of ultraviolet and in the visible light range. A Wood Lamp produces light which is not directly visible to the human eye; however, it can be used to illuminate materials on which an ultraviolet radiation causes fluorescent and phosphorescent effects.

Quartz is a unique material, due to its high purity level of SiO2 and to its mechanical, electrical, thermal, chemical and optical properties.

The photochemical apparatus PHOTOCHEMICAL MULTIRAYS REACTOR, has been developed thanks to the close cooperation between Helios Quartz R&D dept. and research centers, universities and laboratories for some important scientific tests like:

The IR and UV radiation present in sunlight is responsible for almost all processes of photo-degradation of durable materials exposed to the external environment. The types of damage include color change, loss of gloss, chalking, cracking, crazing, hazing, blistering, weakness, loss of strength, oxidation, etc.

In the glass industry, glass sheets are commonly used in the mirroring, lamination and screen printing processes and for the production of artistic glass products, such as tables, chairs, sinks, etc. The glass plates obtained from the “float” process usually have a “clean” face, otherwise called the “air side”, on which are carried out all the processes mentioned above, and a face covered with a thin tin film called “tin side”. Helios Quartz thanks to its strong experience in the glass industry, has developed the best quality control solution for all operators in the glass industry, usually large glassmakers with in-line processes, who want the certainty that the whole processing is made on the “air side”.

Helios Quartz has been manufacturing for 70 years UV polymerization equipment which is particularly useful for general photo-polymerization process such as drying films of UV reactive inks, lacquers and paints, bonding glass to glass, glass to metal or electronic components set with UV reactive adhesives.