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Thermal Transfer Ribbon Additives

Product Overview

We supply waxes and wax emulsions for thermal transfer ribbons to thermal ribbon manufacturers both in Japan and overseas.

Advantage

  • A strong coating layer with durability against water and with water repellency can compete with one made from solvent based dispersion
  • An excellent stability against diluting with alcohol lets Trasol diluted with alcohol coated onto a hydrophobic substrate like PET film and make it easy to dry coated surface by Trasol diluted with alcohol
  • A finer and narrower distribution of particle of the emulsion product is able to provide a homogeneous and smooth coating layer
  • Due to a good compatibility to both anionic and nonionic resin emulsions or latexes Trasol improves durability against water and provides anti-blocking.

Applications

Field Application
film and plastics water-repellant agent, lubricant, glossing agent, anti-blocking agent
paint protective coating agent, water-repellant agent, water-proof agent, lubricant, glossing agent
printing anti-friction agent for flexographic printing
paper water-repellant agent, lubricant, glossing agent
engineering board water-repellant agent, water-proof agent
textiles and leather protective coating agent, water-repellant agent
ink additives for thermal transfer ribbon ink
ceramics lubricant, release agent
others modifier, additive for car wax

Product Details

Typical General Properties

  TRASOL CN TRASOL PF60
main ingredient carnauba wax paraffin wax
melting point of main ingredient (°C) 83 60
appearance pale brown liquid white liquid
non volatile rate (% by weight) 30 40
viscosity (mPa・s at 25°C) 10 20
PH (x10 times dilution) 8.0 9.0
average particle size (μm) 0.2 0.3
type of emulsifier anion anion

Performance

Durability Against Water

method
  • coating the sample diluted with 75% IPA onto PET film by bar coater (The reference sample was directly used without a dilution with alcohol in order to avoid coagulation by alcohol.)
  • drying the coated film in a room temperature and obtaining 10 μm thickness of coated layer on film
  • dipping the coated film in water for three day and then put it in an ultra-sonic vibration for one minute
  • evaluating the durability of coated layer against water by observing re-dispersing into water.
result
  Trasol CN Trasol PF60 referent emulsion
Durability against water good good no good
Observation Adhering on film Peeling off the coated layer from base film Peeling off the coated layer from base film
No re-dispersing No breaking down and no re-dispersing Re-dispersing into water
 

Lubricity

method
  • coating the sample diluted with 75% IPA onto PET film by bar coater
  • drying the coated film in a room temperature and obtaining 10μm thickness of coated layer on film
  • measuring co-efficient of friction of coated surface according to JIS K7125
result
between film and film
  Trasol CN Trasol PF60
static co-efficient of friction 0.35 0.46
kinetic co-efficient of friction 0.18 0.45
between film and metal
  Trasol CN Trasol PF60
static co-efficient of friction 0.24 0.28
kinetic co-efficient of friction 0.17 0.22

Water-Repellency

method
  • coating the sample diluted with 75% IPA onto PET film by bar coater
  • drying the coated film in a room temperature and obtaining 10μm thickness of coated layer on film
  • measuring water repellency of coated surface according to former JIS P8137
result
  Trasol CN Trasol PF60 Blank
water-repellency *1 R4 R9 R0

*1) lowest water-repellency : R0 → R10 : highest water-repellency

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