Excimer UV Curable Coatings
Your premier supplier of Excimer ultraviolet (UV) curable zero gloss, burnish-free, soft touch coatings.
Set your product apart with a high-quality Excimer UV coating from RDC Coatings.
Now offered in the U.S. by RDC Coatings, Excimer UV coatings produce a zero gloss, anti-glare, soft touch surface when exposed to an Excimer lamp. In addition to delivering superior chemical resistance, Excimer UV curable coatings are also highly resistant to burnishes, marks, or fingerprints. This makes them ideal for electronics, such as cell phones and other haptic-responsive technologies. All RDC Coatings formulations, including your Excimer UV curable coating, are environmentally friendly and comply with globally accepted safety and sustainability standards.
How does Excimer UV curing work?
First, the coating is applied to your product — including those made of vinyl, wood, metal, plastic, or any specialty material — in a high-speed production line via roll coating, spray coating, curtain coating, vacuum coating, or other process processes. Next, the product passes through the curing process. Excimer lamps typically generate 172 nanometer wavelengths which trigger a chemical reaction that initially cures the surface of the coating. A second and/or third UV lamp within the curing station initiates subsequent chemical reactions that completely cure the surface finish. The result is a highly durable, solid, zero gloss finish with a soft touch feel.
Benefits of your RDC Coatings’ Excimer UV coating formulation.
As your partner for Excimer UV curable coatings, RDC Coatings will engineer a formulation that meets the unique specifications and requirements of your production process, application and curing equipment, environment, and product.
Whether you’re looking to upgrade your current UV coating formula or designing a new manufacturing line, your Excimer UV finish is backed by RDC’s comprehensive, customer-focused expertise. These include initial, on-site process audits to gain a complete understanding of your production line and product. Those findings inform the development of your custom Excimer UV coating formulation, and thorough proof-of-concept validation in state-of-the-art testing labs. Additionally, RDC provides ongoing process management and technical support.
RDC Coatings’ Excimer UV curable formulations are custom created to optimize your application equipment. Each coating’s viscosity is engineered specifically to flow smoothly and evenly through your roll, spray, curtain, or vacuum coating equipment. Further, your Excimer UV coating solution is supplied pre-mixed; no additives or on-site blending required.
The chemistries used to produce your Excimer UV curable coating are activated by photons from Excimer UV lamps in combination with a second or third UV lamp to produce the final finish. These include microwave, gallium, mercury, and iron-based, LED, ARC or others.
RDC Coatings understands that not every manufacturing facility is climate controlled. Therefore, your Excimer UV curable coating’s chemistry is engineered to perform consistently across a broad range of temperatures and humidities — from high to low. Additionally, RDC’s Excimer UV formulations are designed to accommodate variable UV lamp performances and energy outputs, whether the bulbs are brand new or at the end of their usable lifespan.
Every Excimer UV curable coating RDC creates will match your unique requirements, whether your product is flat or three-dimensional, continuous or discrete. This includes excellent adhesion and even coating, as well as high durability and resistance to chemicals, abrasions, scuffs, and scratches. Excimer UV coatings can also be developed specifically to match your product’s material, including vinyl, wood, metal, plastic, or specialty substrates.
Your partner for sustainable, compliant energy-cured finishes
All RDC UV curable finishes are environmentally friendly and comply with globally accepted safety and sustainability standards, including…
- Low or No Volatile Organic Compounds (Low-VOC/Zero-VOC)
- California Air Resources Board (CARB) Compliant
- American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act Compliant
- Meets or exceeds American National Standards Institute (ANSI), Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA), and Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA) Testing Requirements
How can RDC Coatings help you?
Manufacturers in multiple industries apply RDC Coatings’ custom formulations to a wide variety of materials and products. Leverage RDC Coatings’ 35-plus years of experience in engineering, developing, and manufacturing custom, energy-cured coatings to address your unique needs.