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IST METZ - Model EXIcure -Excimer Technology for Surface Finishing in Wood and Flooring Industry
The Excimer technology provided by IST METZ is a revolutionary method for surface finishing, specifically tailored for the wood and flooring industry. This technology utilizes UV rays at a short wavelength of 172 nm, allowing for precision in texture transformation without relying on traditional matting agents. With a working width capability of up to 4 meters, it addresses the need for large-scale applications, enhancing productivity and quality. The excimer process facilitates the creation of surfaces with gloss levels under 5, delivering an anti-fingerprint soft touch finish that is also abrasion resistant. This innovative approach includes scalability in its application, seamlessly integrating into existing production systems to extend irradiation areas and optimize performance. Furthermore, the excimer treatment process is designed to enhance material surface properties, improving wettability without causing structural damage, making it ideal for delicate materials and metals. This opens up further avenues for efficiency in surface modification, particularly for sensitive materials like functional films and thin wafers.Discover the future of surface technology with Excimer, covering a working width of up to 4 meters! This groundbreaking innovation sets new standards in the wood and flooring industry by using Excimer technology with an impressive width of up to 4 meters.
As before, the 4 meter working width Excimer uses UV rays with a wavelength of 172 nm to transform surface textures - all without the use of matting agents in the paint. Experience matt surfaces with a gloss level of less than 5 gloss, achieved by polymerization using short-wave excimer beams. This process results in a hardened surface that is not only abrasion resistant, but also provides an anti-fingerprint coating with a soft touch.
Through intensive research and development, it has been possible to achieve seamless integration, which enables an extended irradiation area without edge and streak effects. This allows existing production systems to be optimally utilised and productivity to be significantly increased, leading to a considerable increase in matt surfaces with existing equipment. IST METZ offers these extended working widths.
The development of excimer technology with a working width of up to 4 metres by IST METZ opens up new possibilities for the flooring industry. It enables efficient and even surface finishing and sets new standards in the processing of large-area floor coverings.
Users of high-quality materials such as functional films, wafers or thin films know how important gentle surface treatment is. Conventional methods such as corona, atmospheric plasma and flame treatment can damage sensitive materials materials and lead to delamination or failure.
UV cleaning processes play an important role in the display and semiconductor industry. UV light with a very short wavelength (maximum value at 172 nm) is used to break up the compounds the compounds of organic substances. In addition, excimer treatment is a non-damaging process that can improve the wettability and chemical affinity of materials without damaging them. materials without damaging them. It is particularly effective on metal surfaces surfaces and allows chemical-free removal of filmic contaminants without damaging them. filmic impurities without generating electrical fields that could lead to damage. can lead to damage. The result is a clean surface.
The modification of surfaces serves to improve the surface tension for better wettability. better wettability. Wettability is measured via the contact angle.