Henkel - Metallic UV Coating for Print Media and Product Packaging

Around the world, millions of customers and consumers opt for brands and technologies offering quality from Henkel. Wherever printed products are enhanced, laminated and bound, companies in the paper processing industry rely on the cost-efficiency and sustainability of Henkel's technologies. These include UV coatings and special finishing products with outstanding properties and exceptional processing characteristics suitable for a wide range of applications.

Henkel operates worldwide with leading brands and technologies in three business areas: laundry and home care, cosmetics and toiletries and adhesive technologies. Founded in 1876, Henkel holds globally leading market positions both in consumer and industrial businesses.

Recyclable metallic UV coating for consumer packaging

Within its tailored product ranges for industrial business, Henkel offers an exclusive fully recyclable metallic UV coating called MiraFoil. The product is unbeatable for creating brilliant metallic effects on almost any printed piece. It can be applied to very precise areas in a single printing pass.

For print media and product packaging, it is a case of the more exclusive the design of the print product, the better the chance of standing out from the crowd. For outstanding metallic finishing on consumer packaging, folding cartons, labels, and many other applications, Henkel recommends MiraFoil.

Colour selection guide for folding cartons, packaging and labels

MiraFoil Metallic Effect coating is designed to satisfy even the highest demands while meeting all the expectations of a modern effect lacquer in terms of both economics and ecology. Containing highly reflective, micro-fine aluminum flakes, the UV-curing lacquer gives paper and plastic substrates a radiant appearance similar to that of a silver foil.

Furthermore, MiraFoil is perfectly overprintable. Just by applying a layer of ink, it is possible to generate any metallic colour with a striking visual impact that shows off graphic products to best effect. A complimentary MiraFoil colour selector guide shows thousands of different examples designers can chose from to create attractive sustainable folding cartons, packaging, labels and many other applications, saving them time and allowing for a greater flexibility in the design process.

The conventional options to achieve metallic effects create a significant amount of processing waste or create waste that is difficult to recycle. In the wake of the sustainable packaging movement, UV-curable metallic coatings provide an alternative in-line foil solution with excellent metallic effects, minimum or no capital investment, and cost-effective economics. This unique product helps any printed piece to look glamorous and outstandingly shiny.

Environmentally friendly UV coating

MiraFoil Coating reduces in-use failures such as rub-off, cracking, peeling, warping and poor ink adhesion. Best of all, the recyclability, the smaller carbon footprint and runnability of MiraFoil Coating on multiple surfaces make it an environmentally responsible, process enhancing, eye-catching choice for brand managers, packaging designers, printers, and many more.

Whenever you look for style, sustainability and savings on your printed piece, go for MiraFoil Metallic Effect Coating from Henkel.