Ashland and Phoseon Technology have announced a global UV LED initiative, combining Ashland’s product development expertise in UV LED coatings and laminating adhesives and Phoseon’s UV LED curing lamp technology for the labels and packaging industry.

This new relationship, between two suppliers in the energy curable value chain, will provide the converter base with proven plug and play solutions combining compatible UV LED coatings and laminating adhesives with the appropriate UV LED lamp technology.

“Creating an ease-of-use platform for converters in UV LED will accelerate the to-market learning curve, facilitating faster return on investment and early adoption into respective market segments,” says Catherine Heckman, global industry manager, packaging and converting adhesives and coatings, Ashland.