Label Release Liner: Looking to the Future

Silicone status
Silicones are as central to label release liner today as release base, as Hardi Döhler, Innovation Manager at Evonik-Goldschmidt, showed. “Silicone release coatings provide very low surface tension, a highly-flexible backbone, and extreme freedom of rotation,” he said; and described how current radiation-cured silicones are meeting the market’s needs for good laminate aging properties and the influence of silicone transfer on adhesive properties—especially in terms of peel and loop tack.