TFC-9000™

Measure Ink and Coating Curability!

You need a radiometer to ensure the performance and curing effectiveness of your UV lamps. So, how do you ensure the same of your inks, coatings and adhesives? Up until now, it was mostly guesswork. If you had curing problems and had ruled out your UV lamps as the culprit, your next target was most likely your chemistry. CON-TROL-CURE’s Thin Film Calorimeter (TFC) allows you to quantitatively measure the curability of your inks, coatings and adhesives.

The TFC-9000™ qualifies your inks, coatings and adhesives curability and ensures that they are curing consistently, batch-to-batch. Now you can test the shelf life of stored inks and evaluate older inks to know conclusively if they still perform to your expectations. Less wasted material translates into greater savings and profits.

The TFC-9000 performs a rapid analysis of the test data to produce meaningful results. One recent test performed by the TFC-9000 clearly demonstrated the effects of curing a UV curable coating with different UV wavelengths. The same coating was cured with 3 unique UV LED lamps. The TFC-9000’s measured results (in the graph to the right) clearly show that while all 3 lamps cured the sample in approximately the same amount of time, the UV LED lamp at 415nm cured the coating significantly better than the other 2 UV LED wavelengths.

The TFC-9000 works as a stand-alone measurement system or can be connected to a computer through a serial port. The captured data can be exported and plotted to an Excel graph for quick and easy analysis (as shown).

With a high heat tolerance, the TFC-9000 is ideal for heated sample testing. The sensor has an upper temperature limit of 400°F (205°C.)

Note: The system is sold complete with the UV LED lamp. Contact us for information regarding the Mercury Lamp version.
 

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