en.Wedoany.com Reported - Evonik has completed an upgrade of its UV curing coating equipment at the Shanghai Innovation Park, adding a new five-roll coating platform specifically designed for label and release paper applications.

The upgraded system replaces the original three-roll coater, bringing laboratory testing conditions closer to modern industrial production environments. The platform is primarily used for formulation testing, process optimization, and scale-up studies from early development to commercial production validation.

Evonik stated that the five-roll configuration offers greater flexibility for customer-specific projects and more accurately simulates the coating line configurations actually used by label and release paper manufacturers.

The platform is also equipped with a UV/LED inert curing unit, allowing users to switch between UV and LED curing modes. Evonik noted that the new feature responds to the growing industry demand for LED curing technology, which reduces energy consumption and improves operational efficiency compared to traditional systems.

Jared Bender, Head of Agriculture and Specialty Products at Evonik's Interface & Polyurethane Additives Business Line, stated that this investment aims to strengthen support for customer projects from feasibility studies to production validation.

The Shanghai Innovation Park is part of Evonik's global release coating innovation network, which also includes pilot lines and laboratory facilities in Germany's Essen and Richmond, Virginia, USA. The company has been continuously developing UV-curable release coating technology for over 40 years, with products covering its TEGO® RC silicone series.

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