Paper lamination adhesive under Litho Lamination

The Litho Lamination Process

Litho Lamination is a type of printing that uses a lithograph – a printing system that works on the premise that water and oil don’t mix. The two plates used in lithography are called positive and negative plates.

The positive plate used in litho lamination printing is made receptive to oil-based inks and to repel water. The positive plate is also a smooth surface. The negative plate is made in an opposite fashion – a rough texture designed to absorb water and repel oils.

Rubber rollers then squeeze out water and lift ink from the plate. The rollers then apply the ink – and the image meant for transfer – to the printing paper. The paper is then laminated onto a backing board – such as corrugated cardboard.

The Popularity Of Litho Lamination

Litho lamination is most commonly used in the packaging industry to create custom printed corrugated packaging and shipping boxes. Corrugated is an excellent material for shipping as it offers excellent protection for the products at an economic price. Unfortunately, corrugated is a less than ideal material to directly print graphics to.

For this reason, packaging manufacturers use the litho lamination process to combine the versatile properties of corrugated with high-quality, custom graphic printing – which is especially important for products such as “buy-in-bulk” items that place the corrugated shipping box directly in front of the consumer.

Litho Lamination is also used for cardboard retail signs, point-of-purchase displays, and floor stand displays – making it a great investment for manufacturers for a variety of packaging and advertising solutions.

Luckily, litho lamination packaging is very cost-effective, no matter what volume, quality, or purpose it is ordered for.

This lamination approach therefore offers all the quality advantages of lithographic printing, including tight registrations and finely detailed screens and half-tones. When a high-graphic, photo-realistic and multi-color print is crucial to promote your brand, this is probably the way to go.

Advantages of Litho Laminated Box

The litho laminated box is a hybrid packaging featuring the structural strength of the combined with the high-graphics print of offset printed folding boxes. It is the most popular packaging boxes today.

1. Structural strength: with all the good points of the natural corrugated box, ideal for shipping and packaging of heavy, delicate products.
2. High-graphics print: eye-popping and impressive, make the packaging play a key role in the brand marketing of the seller's products.
3. Highly customizable about the size, print,diecut, thickness and material.

B, E, F Flute Litho Laminated Box

The B flute, E flute single face corrugates which has more flutes per linear foot are the most commonly used material for the litho laminated box. They are widely applied for the color printed box of kitchen appliance, like kettles, rice cookers, tea pot and etc.

For the surface linerboard, the CCNB, referred to Clay Coated News Back paperboard is mostly used. The grammage is 250gsm, 300gsm, 350gsm. The higher the grammage, the better visual effect for the final packaging box, because the higher grammage paperboard is thicker enough to avoid the visible flutes outside.

Finish for the Litho Laminated Box

Like the paperboard folding box, the litho laminated box can have the glossy or matt finish, either laminating or varnishing. UV varnishing are also used to increase the surface gloss and protect the print. For the cosmetics, electronics products, which demands a luxury visual effect, the foil are applied.

RUICO supplies exclusively water-based wet lamination adhesives for a wide variety of applications. They contain no solvents or volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and fulfill all requirements for indirect food contact under CFR 21 FDA § 175.105. Different viscosities are available depending on the requirements imposed on the machinability of the adhesives.

For more details, please contact:

Young Yao

Marketing development manager

Zhejiang Ruico Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. (Stock No.873233)

Add: No.188, Liangshan Road, Linghu Town, Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, China 313018

Phone: +86 (572) 2903236

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