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SILTECH LIMITED
SPECIALTY INK AND LACQUER TECHNOLOGY
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Siltech Limited is a privately owned company that develops and manufactures smart inks, lacquers and labels for sale into the printing, packaging, security (brand protection, traceability, tamper-evidence), medical sterilisation, heat and radiation curing, food retorting, coding & marking, etc, sectors.
From our laboratories in Nottingham, we specialise in developing chemical systems which can be stimulated with energy to produce a change in colour, opacity, volume or surface texture. We have products which respond to the following sources of stimulation: Laser, LED, steam, heat, gamma radiation, UV/ IR radiation, and ethylene oxide.
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SILTECH LIMITED
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Laser Reactive Inks & Lacquers
Siltech are the original inventors of laser coding inks – developed specifically for high speed, high throughput packaging lines, allowing the customer to write grade A machine readable code at 3000 characters per second
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Thermally Reactive Inks & Lacquers
heat reactive ink available in a number of colours that gives a permanent colour change on heating, optimised for the print industry, tamper proofing and temporature indicators
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Surface Modification Inks & Laquers
inks and lacquers that swell to produce either a velvety, furry or hard raised tactile surface. Perfect for making your brand stand out or for distinguishing certain parts of a label, available in a full range of colours and feels.
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Security Inks & Lacquers
Our range of products includes inks and labels that can be used to securely identify genuine product and surface modification lacquers that ensure that labels cannot be removed or altered.
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UV Inks & Lacquers
Ideal for protection of bottled or packaged food and drink products. It can be applied to glass, film, PET or many more substrates and is completely transparent to the eye yet absorbs nearly 100% of UV light.
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Sterilisation Monitoring
Sterisure is a range of indicators to show when a sterilisation process has taken place – available for steam, gamma radiation and ethylene oxide – sterisure makes a distinct, obvious colour change when the dosage has been reached
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Case Studies
Thermoprint
in Wind Turbines
Security Inks in a Major Automotive Brand
Sterisure in a Major Supplier
of Medical Equipment
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