Are you looking for a plastic coating to protect your surface from scratches or enhance the functionality of your product? Alfa Chemistry is an expert in surface modification. We have the ability to functionalize the surface of various plastic substrates. We can build a variety of functional coatings on your plastic substrate to improve the optical, physical, and/or chemical properties of the plastic surface. Let us help you improve the surface!
What Can We Offer?
Typical functions that we can embed in the coating on the plastic substrate include: anti-scratch; anti-static; anti-fouling/hydrophobic; anti-reflection; anti-glare; near-infrared absorption; high refractive index; low refractive index; and so on. One or more of the above functions can be combined in one layer. Characteristics such as high light transmittance and low haze are standard.
Our coating technology is developed for applications on plastics such as TAC, PET, PMMA, and PC, but other plastics such as PP, ABS, TPU, TPI, etc. are not excluded. Our products can be adjusted and fine-tuned to obtain the required set of functions and characteristics of your substrate.
The following are some examples of our functionalization on plastic metal surfaces. What we can create includes not limited to nanocoatings with the following characteristics:
Semi-Permanent Reversible Coating
Alfa Chemistry can construct a one-component, transparent, water-based acrylic coating, which is specially developed for applications with non-porous surfaces, such as plastics. It can provide long-term protection, gloss, and color retention for plastic surfaces. The coating is dustproof and waterproof, giving the surface an original appearance.
Silica-Based Protective Nanocoating
Alfa Chemistry can build an innovative nano-coating based on silicon dioxide (SiO2) on the plastic surface to form a permanent protective layer without changing the appearance of the surface.
- The coating protects the surface from paint, oil, water, and staining.
- The protective layer ensures that the adhesion of dirt is reduced and the treated surface is easy to clean.
- The protective layer is very resistant to wear and high temperature (450°C).
- The protective layer can be applied to all smooth and hard surfaces.
The protective nano-coating based on silica is very suitable for plastics such as PVC, plexiglass, polycarbonate, ABS, and AMMA.
Non-Stick and Super-Hydrophobic Coating Based on SiO2
The coating is suitable for smooth surfaces of plastics, precious metals, or painted surfaces due to its specific formulation. Hydrophobic and oleophobic effects make pollutant particles such as grease and greasy dirt, scale, and environmental pollution materials less adhere to the substrate, or make it easy to remove from the nanocoating.
Compared with competing products, the advantages of this coating are:
- UV stability allows the function to be used for several years
- Permanent chemical bond to the substrate for excellent wear resistance
- The product can resist almost all standard household and industrial cleaners (except concentrated lye)
Customized Solutions
Since all plastics and your coating lines and applications are different, we believe that customer-specific products are required. Therefore, we have developed a product suitable for your processing and requirements. In this way, the work and time of trial and error are reduced. The result is a plug-and-play product designed to achieve the best performance at the lowest total system cost. Contact us to learn more about our customer methods and products, or submit our intake form for a more detailed discussion.
Why Choose Alfa Chemistry Custom Coatings Service on Plastic Substrates?
Since our establishment, we have focused on surface modification and have been committed to the research and production of various surface chemical technologies that change the surface properties of plastic materials. Our diverse coatings are thin, easy to apply, safe, non-toxic, and environmentally friendly. If you encounter a problem, you can solve the problem by functionalizing the surface. We will work with you to develop a solution suitable for your product. Please contact us to find out how we can help!
