Compact aNIR® drying solutions for the integration of multi-print carousel screen printing systems can be offered application-optimized and customer-specific also in existing lines.

This can greatly increase productivity by converting the IR drying stations required today into additional screen-printing positions. The aNIR® drying modules are mounted directly on the screen-printing frame and are only activated during the carousel feed.

This also avoids the unavoidable high thermal loads (due to heat radiation from the textile product carriers heating up) on the screens, as well as the on/off cycles of the aNIR® drying systems required to be < 1 second, saving many times over in energy consumption. High two-digit cost advantages result essentially from the possible increase in productivity, reduction in energy consumption and the considerably longer operating times before the cleaning/maintenance of the screens is required.

Compact, spontaneous, dynamically defined and controlled drying solutions for multipass and single-pass IJ printing systems are offered application-optimized and customer-specific.

The highest productivity increases, possible on the market, can be achieved by minimizing space and weight, with the lowest thermal loads on the printheads carrier respectively the conveyor belt and the adjacent system components.

The low possible temperatures of the printed textiles, due to the special aNIR® functional principle for drying especially water-based inks allow high-performance and high-quality IJ printing solutions on very temperature-sensitive textiles.

The possible ultra-fast aNIR® drying also makes high-performance R2R-IJ printing processes possible today. Even at printing speeds of 150 m/min, a max. aNIR® drying length of < 1.5 m is required, compared to the otherwise usual 5 - 6 m for IR or > 15 m for hot air drying solutions.

The aNIR® and aLITE® platform technologies enable a variety of new manufacturing processes especially for smart textiles and other multilayer textile-based printed electronics.

aNIR® and especially aLITE® allow coatings to dry completely without distortion, especially at low temperatures, even with aqueous thick-film wet layers. Not only the drying times can be reduced by orders of magnitude compared to conventional hot air drying systems (typically from minutes to a few seconds). In addition, significantly increased production speeds are realized due to the small space requirement, often added, multilayer application and drying processes are then also possible in one line. Further enormous cost advantages result from the greatly reduced energy requirement of the adphos electrothermal drying solutions (approx. only 10% - 30% of hot air, or ≤ 30% of (N)IR-based dryers), which are intrinsically also completely zero CO2-emission due to their working principles.

The possible aNIR® drying in seconds now also allows a simple adaptation to printing and coating systems for 3D-components and 3D-continuous applications. In this way, aNIR® enables dynamic, 3-dimensional spontaneous drying focused directly on locally limited, coated textile structure.

Due to the functional principle of the aNIR®-technology, it can be used for extremely temperature-sensitive textiles (≥ 60 °C). The compact, weight-minimized aNIR® drying module designs also allow assembly with highly dynamic (several G-acceleration) robot-supported process systems.

The adphos proprietary TeDyLITE® (Textile Dyeing Light Initiated Thermal Emission) process was developed especially for textile dyeing and impregnation processes, for Foullert or spray-coating based coatings. With this, water-based pigment and dispersion paint systems can be dried and fixed in a matter of seconds, which with today's conventional hot-air systems require thermal fixation processes of up to several minutes. For certain commercially available dyeing systems, this can even be achieved in a single-stage drying/fixation process.

In addition to the possible extreme reduction in space for the required process steps, the TeDyLITE® process leads to significantly reduced energy consumption and enables a greatly simplified textile web treatment. Due to the working principle of the electrothermal TeDyLITE® solutions, they are also completely free of CO2-emissions.