Transparent laser plastic marking
With INCA®, laser marking no longer relies on carbonization of the polymer matrix and is therefore matrix-independent. This makes INCA® ideal for marking anything from circuit breakers to appliances, medical products, computer housings, cable coatings, bottles, closures and all manner of security cards at higher marking speeds, without adverse effect on other properties.
Laser welding of clear plastics thanks to our patent
Find details of our unique proprietary marking and welding solution here:
- United States Patent: US 10,604,637 B2
- Europe Patent EP: 3478 754 A1
- China: Pending
- India: Pending
- Hong Kong: Pending
How it works
The principle form of INCA® is a master batch granulate for compounding or dry blending in an extrusion or injection molding machine. Upon laser irradiation, the laser active particles absorb the laser energy and transform from light to dark to yield photo quality, dark images on light backgrounds and even on transparent.
For your convenience, a color laser combibatch can be supplied such that color laser additives are tuned resulting in optimized laser marking performance. This can be used on products like caps & closures, wire & cable, packaging and serves as an antimony free solution for animal tags.
Advantages of our antimony free INCA:
- Absorber content can be varied allowing improved dispersion compared to industrial standards
- Customized carrier possible
- Carrier selection can allow addition without (negatively) influencing any other properties such as CTI, FR (blooming)
- Suitable for transparent applications
- Combination of carefully selected absorbers
- Performance optimized to be comparable to or better than the industry standard
- Same or higher marking speed
- Same or higher contrast
- Allows direct replacement of current solutions at lower cost