Laser Special Shaping
When All Packing talked with laser manufacturers many years ago, they talked about the application of lasers in distance measurement, metal cutting, medical treatment and designated locations to have power output, etc. We were curious about whether these can be applied to flexible packaging materials?
We gained knowledge during our questions and answers. Our company is willing to spend millions to purchase a machine to practice. With this invaluable experience, we wish to break-through the bottleneck. Domestic manufacturers are no longer able to meet our ideals. We switched to searching internationally and found top manufacturers specializing in lasers in Europe. After contacts and discussions, we got what we want. Because of this, we have applied for patent rights in Taiwan and mainland China a few years earlier, and our application in other countries in the world are in progress.
Laser can do the followings:
Engraving
Flexible packaging materials can present a variety of styles and characteristics. Maintenance is its biggest need, but not its biggest satisfaction. Printing carrier bags with brand names are the biggest advertisements, but they often require platemaking or inkjet to spray directly without making plates, but these are all expensive and damage the environment and cannot be considered as green packaging materials. Now with a light source with energy, it is easy to engrave texts and patterns, without the harm caused by VOC.
Half cutting
The laser light source can accurately cut to the designated position, and it will not damage other composite materials. In other words, it will not damage the material that protects the food. Therefore, the food can always be kept fresh. Large-area sweeping graphics are even more fancy, rustic and cute.
Cut off
Laser cutting is widely used in the open windows of paper. Paper has always been an important element of human life, bringing us simplicity and stability. Of course, packaging materials cannot be without it. Fancy ideas are used to attract consumers' attention. Paper opens a window with vague beauty. Those who are curious will look at what is inside. In the past, everyone used knife molds to make it. Now it is different, and you can use lasers to overcome the limitation of changing the knife mold. Thus, lasers allow many patterns, which is really amazing technology.
Cutting
The art of "paper-cutting" in ancient civilizations takes years to learn. No good products can be produced unless you spend years of time. Nowadays, laser application is really fast and convenient. You can directly cut the desired cardboard, text and graphics with a light beam, and then stick it on the packaging material bag, to form a 3D pattern bag with unique floating characters. This can be a very nice pattern.
Continuous Multi-color Hot Stamping (Embossing)
The quickest way to make things elegant, gorgeous, valuable, and as a status quote is to make the packaging exquisite. That is what people call "decorate with gold". An inconspicuous plastic bag, after hot stamping its value will rise. Touch to feel its texture. Therefore, this leaves a trace almost everywhere in the world. At present, the gift industry uses it most (carton, paper box, cardboard), but as soft packaging materials it is rarely used. More often we see after a bag is made, it undergoes hot-stamping. But the hot-stamping mold is very sharp, there is a risk that the layer of high barrier material that protects the food will become broken, causing the packaging material to completely lose water and oxygen resistance. This is why it is not used as soft packaging materials.
Our company adopts semi-finished product processing operations, which can register multiple colors at one time. It is unprecedented. At present, there is only one-color manual ironing in the market, but there is a risk that the hot film may break the materials and cause food to turn bad. The newly developed machine took eight years to finish. It has written a glorious page in the history of hot-stamping, and also obtained multinational patent licenses to protect its intellectual property rights. It significantly reduces the cost of hot stamping. It is earth-friendly and does not have the harmful effects of VOC.
Making hot-stamping materials is an advanced technology. At present, only a few manufacturers in Taiwan can produce them, and some of them still have to be imported from abroad.
First of all, we must first understand the structure and composition of the hot-stamping material, as described below:
Structural composition of common hot-stamping materials:
- PET film should be coated with a release agent first.
(Too little can not be transfer, too much can not be processed at a later stage) - Coated with anti-scratch and wear-resistant coating
- Printing various colors
- Vacuum plating
- Coated with heat seal adhesive
Structural composition of laser hot-stamping material:
- PET film should be coated with a release agent first.
(Too little can not be transfer, too much can not be processed at a later stage) - Coated with anti-scratch and wear-resistant coating
- Soft pressure laser pattern
- Printing various colors
- Vacuum plating
- Coated with heat seal adhesive
Because the process of making a laser hot stamping material is cumbersome, the cost is also 2-3 times that of a general hot stamping material. In addition, there are many factors to consider when choosing a hot-stamping material, such as: the type of heat-sealing adhesive, the type of material to be hot-stamped, and the method of machining (each having a different speed, influencing the outcome), etc.. To sum up, hot stamping technique is very important, various factors have to be identified to produce a good product.
Business Card Bag
At present, when marketing products, everyone hands over products and business cards to customers separately, so why not combine them? This can eliminate the difficulty in handing over business cards. How to open a pocket on flexible packaging materials? During conception, food preservation was the highest priority, so an extra layer of film should be added to the structure to overcome this problem; Moreover, how to limit the width of the pocket? When making bags, mold heating can be used to frame the customer's desired pockets.
Flat Bottom Seamless Compound Carrier Bag
Flat-bottomed (pocket zipper) bags are the most popular bags in the past 5 years. Yet, the manufacturing process is very cumbersome. In addition, the length of the machine can reach 36M and the bags should be made accurately. This is a very difficult task. However, All Packing can perfectly make a variety of materials, and innovate this bag type into a flat-bottom seamless composite carrier bag (close to the carrier bag on the market). This not only removes the disadvantages often encountered in carrier bags (easy to break due to water, cannot carry heavy items, and handles are easy to break, etc.). If a pocket zipper is added, the packaging can even carry food, customers can bring food directly home, without the need to provide additional carrier bags. This saves costs as well as contributes to the global environment
However, there are some problems in the production of this bag type, such as: how to thicken the handles on the top edge? We have tried our best to overcome it. All Packing hopes to present to customers a different feeling.