ARC products

The ARC (Albert Rose Chemicals) brand products comprise a broad product portfolio for flat and rotary textile printing.

The late 1970s saw ARC operating worldwide as one of the divisions of Kissel + Wolf GmbH.
Development, application technology, production and sales have now been completely integrated in Wiesloch.

Industrial Textile Printing - Rotary Screens

This is a continuous, high-performance, roll-to-roll screen printing process for textile and wallpaper printing.

Rotary screens are fine-meshed, seamless, perforated nickel cylinders, the non-printing areas of which are blocked with emulsion or lacquer.

The printing paste is transferred to the fabric using a fixed squeegee blade on the inside of the fast rotating screen.

Industrial Textile Printing - Flat Screens

The printing paste is transferred to the fabric with a squeegee through the open areas of the flat screen. This is similar to conventional screen printing.

After the paste has been printed, the screen is raised, allowing the printed substrate underneath to be transported to the next printing station.

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Adhesives for printing blankets

In industrial textile printing, the fabric to be printed must remain flat and level on the printing blanket (a kind of conveyor belt) of the printing machine.

This fabric is lightly fixed by a temporary adhesive as it is transported between printing stations.

If the fabric is not thus fixed or not properly fixed, accurate print registration is not possible. Kissel + Wolf GmbH pioneered such adhesives and also supplies them today for digital printing machines.