Embossing success story continues unabated for Hymmen

 Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Hymmen is delighted to celebrate its continuous success of the path breaking embossing technology DLEplus.

Taking a step towards natural flooring, Hymmen produced fantastic flooring samples with the Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLEplus) technology that can be hardly distinguish from original wood. The fantastic flooring has been produced in their technology center. Optics and haptics of these surfaces are so close to nature, that the user can hardly distinguish them from original wood.

With Hymmen Digital Lacquer Embossing (DLEplus) technology it is easy to achieve the high surface quality. More than 50 digital printing lines in the market show that many relevant market players trust in the reliable Hymmen technology. And all of the 6 new digital flooring lines sold over the last 12 months are equipped with the DLEplus technology.

Technology has three fully developed surface options to choose from:

• Visco-elastic (AC5 falling sand)
• Aluminium oxide (S42 Taber)
• Wearlayer lamination.

Digital lacquer embossing exploits all the commercial and technical advantages of Hymmen’s established digital single-pass printing process. These include properties such as high flexibility, short set-up times, no storage costs, new design options and customisation, and doing away with the need to change cylinders or press plates.

With a width of 70 mm to 2,100 mm and only one digital pressure bar, the technology can be easily integrated into existing processes. Using just small amount of the structuring medium does not change any of the tried-and-tested properties of the varnish, such as hardness, adhesion, scratch resistance, and chemical resistance. Ultimately, textures can be created that run synchronously with the surface decor – regardless of whether this decor was achieved through analog or digital printing.

The advantages of the DLE plus digital lacquer embossing process can be summarized as follows:

• A large texture depth of 10 – 200 µm
• Special effects due to high variability in depth
• Sharp edges
• Different gloss grades
• On request synchronized with the printed decor
• Paint surface quality is retained
• Technology can be added to existing conventional paint lines

Tags: Digital laquer printing, flooring, natural flooring, wood, wood and panel, woodworking, woodworking and manufacturing, woodworking industry, woodworking UK