Innovative, Sustainable Coatings Deliver Top Functionality with Environmentally Friendly Production

Preparing a substrate for further manufacturing processes or enhancing its functionalities often involves specialized coatings as part of production. Discover how Follmann develops high-performance and innovative coatings for various applications and what benefits you, as a customer, can expect. What makes Follmann coatings stand out: they are water-based, environmentally friendly, and designed with top functionality.

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Water-Based Ink Receiving Layers for Digital Printing Media 

Our ready-to-use water-based ink receiving layers are specially designed for digital printing media. These coatings can be applied to a wide variety of substrates (e.g., papers, films, wallpapers, nonwovens, textiles, or canvases), enabling them to be digitally printed in the next processing step. The combination possibilities of substrates, ink systems, and custom-developed coatings are highly diverse. Our environmentally friendly formulated coatings allow for high-quality print design and rich, vibrant colors.

Thanks to high drying speeds, you can quickly continue processing the media.

Whether it’s roll-ups, advertising banners, labels, packaging, wallpapers, textiles, or napkins – we have the right solution for every application!

Your Benefits

  • High color brilliance and edge sharpness
  • Excellent adhesion
  • Suitable for various ink and color systems
  • Applicable on a wide range of substrates
  • Compatible with different application systems
  • Enhanced UV stability
  • Flame retardant
  • Scratch-resistant
  • Fast further processing due to high drying speeds

 

Our Range of Water-Based Ink Receiving Layers

The FOLCO DIGITAL products meet even higher requirements such as UV stability, flame retardancy, and scratch resistance.

Substrates / Applications 

Ink Systems Film(PVC, PP, PE, PET...) Paper Non-woven Wallpaper Textiles Canvas Labels Corrugated board
Water-based pigment inks + + +   + + + +
Water-based dye inks (e.g. Memjet) + + +   + + +  
Latex inks + + + + + + + +
Solvent-based inks + + + + + + +  
Eco-solvent-based inks + + + + + + +  
UV-curabke inks + + + + + + + +
DyeSub inks     +   +      
HP-Indigo inks + + +       +  
Laser printing inks + +         +  

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Barrier Coatings for Packaging

The packaging and food industry is undergoing a transformation: the demand for sustainable, recyclable packaging solutions is increasing. However, effective barrier protection against oils, fats, or water remains essential, especially for packaging papers and cartons. These are often laminated with film, which can significantly complicate or even prevent recycling.

Follmann has the solution: Our water-based barrier coatings for gravure and flexographic printing are specially designed for paper and cardboard packaging.

End products can be comprehensively and easily recycled, while still offering excellent protection against oils, fats, and water. They not only meet regulatory requirements but also meet the highest standards for premium print results. This makes a vital contribution to sustainability.
 

Our barrier coatings are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic coatings.

Our Range of Barrier Coatings for Packaging

*COBB values on request / **KIT values on request
Remarks FOLCO LAC 98002
Water Barrier* +
Grease Barrier** +
Oil Barrier +
Direct Food Contact +
Easy Recycling +
Heat Sealability +
Printing Processes: Gravure / Flexo +

Your Benefits from Barrier Coatings

  • Enables easy recycling
  • Suitable for direct, short-term food contact
  • Comprehensive protection against oils, fats, or water
  • Heat-sealable

Water-Based Textured Printing Inks 

Our water-based textured printing inks can be printed using rotary screen printing and gravure printing on paper, nonwovens, and films. They create attractive, visible, and tactile 3D effects on wallpapers, decorative films, gift wraps, and many other applications. These inks are lightfast, temperature-stable, washable, and abrasion-resistant.

The foam height can be individually adjusted with our foam concentrates. Benefit from our services: we offer analytics, colorimetrics, and on-site process optimization, as well as solutions and cost-saving opportunities for reusing leftover inks.

Your Benefits:

  • Visible and tactile 3D effects
  • Lightfast and temperature-stable
  • Washable and abrasion-resistant
  • Suitable for rotary screen printing and gravure printing
  • High environmental compatibility
  • Thermally foaming or compact ink systems
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Our thermally foaming textured printing inks are environmentally friendly and have excellent resilience.

Our Product Range

Foamable textured printing inks

Name Application area
FOLCO FOAMCOAT FQ 3909 matt For paper and nonwoven with finely structured surfaces
FOLCO FOAMCOAT FQ 3510 transparent For paper and nonwoven with structured effect surfaces
FOLCO FOAMCOAT FQ 3611 softtouch For paper and nonwoven with structured surfaces

Non-foamable textured printing inks

Name Application area
FOLCO DIMENSION DFP 526/15 white For the printing and coating of papers, for visible and tactile structures and 3D effects
FOLCO DIMENSION DFP 526/9000 clear For paper and nonwoven wallpaper as well as decorative paper with structured surfaces
FOLCO DIMENSION DFP 526/36 matt For paper and non-woven wallpaper and decorative papers with structured surfaces

Foam concentrate

Name Description
FOLCO FOAMCOAT FQ 8400 Booster to adjust the foaming level

Pigment concentrates

FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 is a water-based pigment concentrate designed for coloring white and transparent products. It offers brilliant colors and high color intensity, making it suitable for various applications, including paper, non-woven, and vinyl wallpapers.

Name Description
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 104 yellow reddish
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 120 yellow greenish
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 214 magenta
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 218 red bluish
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 229 red yellowish
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 239 carmin
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 301 violet
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 303 blue greenish
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 401 green
FOLCO AQUASCREEN FS 10 - 802 black

Applications for Our Water-Based Coating Compounds

Wallpaper

From water-based printing inks and textured printing inks for wallpaper to water-based colour receiving coatings for digital printing media, Follmann offers a wide range of products and applications for your products.

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Technical Textiles

Whether avalanche fences in signal colours, robust and durable grid structures to reinforce the ground, e.g. for dykes or in road construction, reinforced roofing membranes with textile inserts to improve dimensional stability and hail impact resistance, among other things - we at Follmann have long developed expertise in the coating of textile substrates.

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Gift Wraps and Foils

For gift packaging, we provide vibrant, eco-friendly printing inks that elevate the visual appeal of your products while showcasing sustainability, transforming them into true highlights.

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