The Seamless Steel Pipe Ceramic Anilox Roller is a high-precision metering roller that combines the strength of stainless steel with the wear resistance of ceramics. It is primarily used in flexographic printing, coating, and glazing processes.
Why choose seamless steel pipe as the base material
Strength and Stability: During high-speed printing or coating processes, the anilox roller needs to withstand significant squeezing and frictional forces. Seamless steel tubes (especially 45# medium carbon steel) possess ideal strength and bending stiffness, ensuring that the roller body remains undeformed under pressure, which is crucial for maintaining precise ink transfer..
Structure and Process
* Base roller processing
Seamless steel tubes are used as the base material, which undergoes precision cutting and welding of the shaft head. Stress relief annealing is required to eliminate internal stress caused by processing and welding, preventing fractures in future use.
* Ceramic spraying
Spraying ceramic materials such as chromium oxide onto the surface of steel pipes through plasma spraying technology. The high-quality ceramic layer can achieve a hardness of HV1200-1350.
* Laser engraving
Specific mesh holes (shape, line per inch (LPI), black color capacity (BCM)) are engraved on the ceramic layer using high-precision laser.
* Sealing treatment
To prevent the ink solvent from infiltrating and corroding the steel pipe substrate through the tiny pores of the ceramic layer, good products undergo nanoscale sealing treatment, applying special sealing agents to enhance corrosion resistance.
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Roller Diameter |
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TIR |
Screen |
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Seamless Steel Pipe |
40~600mm |
5500mm |
0.01 |
60~1600LPI |
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Hexagonal, Quad, Trihelical, Wave, Art type etc |
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Ceramic Anilox Roller's Parameter
Product Superiority
High Efficiency, Energy Saving and Long Service Life
Ultra-high hardness and longevity
The hardness of the ceramic layer reaches HV1200-1350, with a wear resistance typically exceeding 3 million meters, and high-quality products can achieve over 10 million meters..
High-precision ink delivery
Utilizing fiber laser engraving imported from ALE in the UK or Germany, the entire plate exhibits minimal differences in dot size, with an ink quantity error of less than 3%, ensuring color consistency..
Chemical resistance
Spraying a super-strong nickel-chromium alloy base layer and performing nanoscale sealing, the corrosion resistance is improved by more than 300% compared to ordinary chrome-plated rollers
Application Scenarios
1. Packaging and label printing (core application)
This is the most mainstream application scenario for ceramic anilox rollers, accounting for the majority of the market share.
Flexographic printing
The ceramic anilox roller is known as the heart of the flexographic printing machine, playing a crucial role in ensuring stable ink volume and consistent color during high-speed printing. It is widely used in the printing of various packaging materials:
*Corrugated cardboard box: used for printing text, color blocks, and patterns on outer packaging.
*Flexible packaging: such as food packaging bags, composite films, etc.
*Label: including adhesive labels, beer labels, daily chemical product labels, etc
2. Functional coating and glazing
*Coating industry: used for producing various functional films, such as:
*Optical film and protective film: Precisely control the coating amount to ensure optical performance and bonding effect.
*Lithium battery separator: Ensuring uniformity of the coating directly affects battery performance and safety.
*Glazing and Laminating: In the post-printing processes of packaging, it is used for water-based or UV glazing, laminating, etc., to enhance the appearance and durability of the product.
*In the non-printing field of special material processing, ceramic anilox rollers also play an important role:
3. In the non-printing field of special material processing, ceramic anilox rollers also play an important role
*Anodized aluminum gilding: used for precise control of the adhesive or release layer on the gilding foil.
*Gold and silver cardboard production: used to produce high-end packaging materials with a metallic texture.
*Seamless flexographic plate: directly serving as the carrier for the plate roller, used for printing seamless and continuous patterns
Product Detail Drawing
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