Applications

Swada Recommendations By Application

  • Plastics
    Plastics come in a variety of forms and both thermoset and thermoplastic types, formed in a wide-variety of ways can be pigmented with fluorescent pigments to give a brilliant effect.

  • PVC, PU, Silicone & Plastisol
    These are plastics systems which require more complex processing but these can also be pigmented with Swada daylight fluorescent pigments.

  • Paper Coating
    The coating of white paper with a fluorescent coating achieves the brightest possible result in this medium and provides a background for a variety of applications where high visual impact is required.

  • Water-borne Paints and Coatings
    Given the very wide range of coatings technology available to the paint formulator today, we can only provide a very simple overview of the best products we have to offer.

  • Solvent-borne Paints and Coatings
    Given the very wide range of coatings technology available to the paint formulator today, we can only provide a very simple overview of the best products we have to offer.

  • Aerosols
    Bright distinctive fluorescent colours provided in aerosol form have become an essential requirement of the construction and maintenance sector and are popular in graphic arts applications.

  • Textile Printing
    Fashion trends dictate that almost every other year fluorescent inks become very popular, particular for printed garments such as leisure and sportswear.

  • Offset Litho
    Offset lithography is a process used for printing on a flat surface, using printing plates. An image is transferred to a printing plate, which can be made of a variety of materials such as metal or paper.

  • Flexographic Inks
    Flexography is a printing process which uses a raised rubber or photopolymer plate with a rubber fountain roller or engraved chrome or ceramic anilox roller to carry ink to the plate.

  • Gravure Inks
    Gravure is a printing method in which an image is applied to a printing substrate by use of a metal plate mounted on a cylinder. Unlike other processes, gravure uses a depressed or sunken surface for the desired image.

  • Screen Inks
    The principle of screen printing or silk screening involves the technique of applying an ink blocking stencil to a screen (either constructed of silk, synthetic or metallic material).

  • Other
    Daylight fluorescent pigments can be used in a wide variety of other applications not covered here.