Consumables
FESPA retrospective: HEXIS goes green
Thursday 01. July 2010 - At this year's FESPA show in Munich, the French vinyl manufacturer Hexis launched an all-new cast Latex digital printing film and gloss laminate destined for vehicle wrapping applications.
Both films are PVC-free and do not contain any solvents, plasticisers or heavy metals. The compound is flexible and conformable enough to be suitable for car wraps and in general applications that demand a conformable film.
At FESPA Hexis used a TESLA all-electric roadster to demo the new films and emphasise their environment-friendly qualities.
The latex film – made of an aqueous emulsion of a plastic material – is free of all those materials with certain environmental issues such as PVC, solvents, plasticisers and heavy metals.
The HXL300WG2 has a thickness of 100µm and boasts a printed and laminated vertical outdoor exposure of 3 years. It can be printed with all types of solvent and eco-solvent inks including Mutoh bio inks and HP latex ink.
The HXL300WG2 is for dry application and it carries the proven HEXPress structured PE-liner to make the film repositionable during application and ease egress of any trapped air bubbles.