NEW: Orange™ Direct Emulsion

At January’s ISS Show in Long Beach, California, we introduced Ulano Orange, a pre-sensitized (ready-to-use), pure photopolymer (SBQ) textile emulsion for imprinted sportswear printing.  Orange is formulated with a “masking color” that reduces halation—the reflection and scattering of light in screen mesh during exposure—a major cause of loss of resolution, the closing up of fine lines and details.  One would expect a “masking color” to slow the exposure speed of an emulsion drastically, but that does not happen with Orange!  It is ultra-fast-exposing!  It is perfect for shops with high stencil making throughput, as well as shops with fluorescent tubes or other low-intensity light sources. 

Orange has high viscosity (6,000 – 8,000 centipoise) that improves control when coating screens by hand and makes Orange a good choice for coarse mesh.  Its high solids content (44 - 46%) results in better mesh bridging, especially on coarse mesh, good edge definition, and fast drying. 

Orange is resistant to plastisol inks, most washup solvents, and some come commonly-used water-based textile inks.  It is easy to reclaim in automatic stencil removal equipment or by hand.  Stencils made with Orange are extremely durable, will not become tacky under high humidity conditions, and have excellent wet strength and exposure latitude.  Orange is formulated to reduce stencil-making time--in coating (because of its high viscosity), drying (due to its high solids), and exposure (its high photo-sensitivity despite its “masking color”).

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NEW: Film Conversion Clean Room Up and Running

We’re proud to share with you photographs of our new Film Conversion Clean Room and its crew.  The new facility, which is located in our main factory and lab complex, supersedes a filtered air, positive vacuum conversion facility that had been located in a separate building about 1 ½ miles (≈ 2 ½ km.) distant.  For years, master film rolls coated in our factory had been transported to the conversion facility, then returned, as finished rolls or sheets, to the factory complex where our warehouse is also located.

By placing the new Film Conversion Clean Room literally a few meters from the coating machines, we have been able to minimize the handling of work-in-progress master film rolls and reduce intra-city transportation.  Our objective is to produce film products that meet the needs of our most demanding and technically sophisticated customers.  We want Ulano film products to continue to be the first choice of industrial producers of printing for PCB work, flexible circuitry, RFID devices, solar panels, membrane and touch panels, ceramic decals, etc.  Our new Film Conversion Clean Room is the newest marker of our commitment to continual improvement of product quality and manufacturing efficiency.

We continually try to find ways to improve our in-process quality monitoring to insure that each intermediate production step meets specific tolerances before continuing on to the next step.  In addition, in recent years we have placed increased reliance for monitoring quality in the hands of our production managers and operators—our Film Conversion Clean Room Crew among them.  They take pride in their work.  Moreover, they are closest to the production processes and, during their many years of production experience, have developed a “sixth sense” for quality.  Their empowerment results in more rapid correction of any in-process deviations. 

You can read more about our commitment to quality in our Corporate Mission Statement, posted in the “About Us” section of this Web site.