Screen printing on flat glass covers a very wide scope of activity from manual printing of a few glass sheets on hand printing tables all the way to very sophisticated in-line operations reaching lengths of a hundred meters to print tens of thousands of automotive glass sheets for the world's car industry. The lecture will cover a sample of applications that have become state-of-the art in the automotive industry for new cars in countries like Italy, Mexico and Korea and replacement glass in countries like Kuwait and Nigeria. The car users are asking the industry for more custom made models and this is also becoming a challenge for suppliers of production machinery to the automotive industry and screen printing is no exception. Due to the very different requirements of size, shape, thickness, etc. of the glass and different printing paste and ink technology, the screen printing machinery, dryers, conveyors, etc. are often also custom made - not only as far as the mechanical shape of the machinery is concerned, but also the PLC-systems that must match the factory layouts and in-line operations. A closer cooperation between buyers and vendors at an early stage is becoming more and more obvious to shorten lead times and get a better understanding between the parties.
Screen printing on flat glass for the automotive industry
Flachglas-Siebdruckverfahren für die Automobil-Industrie
1997
3 Seiten
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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