Cures for Wider Webs?

Mitchell also sees application requests as a catalyst for UV’s expansion. “We have converters calling every week with new applications that their customers and designers have proposed,” he says. Mitchell sees more sophisticated graphics; new substrates with different properties; security printing; low odor inks for packaging and cosmetic applications; and the use of UV to apply adhesive during the converting process as hot growth that bode well for wider-web UV adoption.