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Release Liners for Self-Adhesive Products

Release liners are critical components in the self-adhesive and pressure-sensitive product industries, providing necessary support and protection for these applications. They act as carriers for adhesives until the final product is ready to be used, ensuring that the adhesive remains intact, free from contamination, and functional.

Fox River Associates is an industry leader in engineered film release liners and paper release liners for self-adhesive products used in a wide variety of applications.

Our experienced team will work with you to ensure we understand your application specifications so we can recommend the most appropriate release liner options for your needs. Call Fox River Associates today at 1-800-647-6579 or use the form on this page.  Our team is ready to work with you.

The Function of Release Liners in Self-Adhesive and Pressure-Sensitive Products

Release liners serve as a temporary backing that carries adhesives or pressure-sensitive products, allowing for easy handling, processing, and storage. They are coated with a release agent, often silicone-based, to allow the adhesive to be peeled off smoothly when needed. This function is essential in protecting the adhesive's integrity, preventing premature adhesion, and facilitating the manufacturing and converting processes.

In self-adhesive and pressure-sensitive applications, the release liner plays several vital roles:

  • Adhesive Protection: It shields the adhesive from dirt, dust, moisture, and other contaminants until the end-user removes it.
  • Dimensional Stability: By providing structural support, release liners maintain the shape and dimensions of the adhesive, which is crucial in die-cutting and converting processes.
  • Ease of Application: Release liners allow easy and precise application of the adhesive product, which is essential for achieving optimal performance and alignment.

Given these functions, selecting the appropriate release liner for a specific application is crucial. The type of release liner used depends on the requirements of the adhesive product, the application environment, and the desired properties such as release force, dimensional stability, and compatibility with the adhesive system.

Ready to learn more? Contact Fox River Associates today – email us at info@foxriverassociates.com or call us at 1-800-647-6579. Our experienced team is ready to work with you.

Quality Release Liners for All Self-Adhesive Markets

Fox River Associates delivers paper release liners and film release liners for self-adhesive products in a wide range of industries and applications, including:

  • Medical: The medical market demands precision, cleanliness, and biocompatibility in its release liners. The choice of liners in the medical industry is driven by the need for high performance, durability, and compatibility with various adhesives, including those that are hypoallergenic or designed for skin contact.
  • Automotive: Release liners are found in many components of vehicle production from pressure-sensitive tapes for brakes lights, carpets, upholstery, and door trim, to the wide variety of gaskets used for vibration reduction and sound dampening, and the emerging production of batteries for EV vehicles.
  • Composites: In the composites industry, release liners are exposed to extreme conditions during processing and storage.  Release liners must be engineered with specific performance characteristics including improved layflat properties and dimensional stability. Whether you need release liners for prepreg manufacturing operations, composite panel production or film resin processes, Fox River Associates has the release liner products to serve your needs.
  • Building & Construction: The building and construction market is characterized by highly technical performance requirements, stringent regulations, extreme variability in environmental conditions and tight timelines for delivery. Applications for pressure-sensitive products using release liners include sub-roofing, waterproofing, weather barriers, sound insulation, climate insulation and a wide variety of specialty industrial tapes.
  • Industrial/Specialty Tapes: Self-adhesive tapes are a common replacement for traditional fastening, bonding, mounting and sealing mechanisms. These tapes are lightweight, versatile, and engineered for unique applications in the automotive, building & construction, electronics, medical and electrical industries. Fox River Associates supplies release liners designed for compatibility with the specific adhesives being used, including heavy-coat-weight durable adhesives and those peeled by hand. We offer release liners with stable release differentials. Our liners are designed for slitting operations to serve double coated transfer tape and unsupported tape applications. 
  • Specialty Converting: Specialty converters play an important role in manufacturing today’s industrial, electronics, medical and automotive parts.  Specialty converters transform tapes and adhesives from jumbo rolls of materials into small parts. These converters design and develop custom products and provide valuable services including adhesive coating, laminating, die-cutting, slitting, spooling, and sheeting of a wide variety of materials including film and paper release liners.

Whether you’re designing pressure sensitive medical devices or converting foam tapes, Fox River Associates has the release liner product offering to meet your needs. Call Fox River Associates today at 1-800-647-6579 or email us at info@foxriverassociates.com to experience how we can help you design the optimal release liner for your tape application.   

Release Liner Product Offering

Fox River Associates proudly delivers a full range of release liner products for self adhesive and pressure sensitive applications. Our product line includes paper release liners, film release liners, polycoated paper release liners and specialty release liners.

Paper Release Liners: Paper release liners are used in a diverse range of applications serving many industries. From composites to labels to medical adhesive bandages, paper release liners are found in a wide variety of applications. Paper release liners provide temperature resistance, stiffness, and high resistance to many solvent-based chemical coatings. These liners can be designed with low or high internal moisture to deliver improved dimensional stability. Paper based liners with a PE extrusion can deliver improved layflat and dimensional stability properties, while providing a smooth release surface for coatings and adhesives.

Fox River Associates Paper Substrates for Release Liners:

  • Glassine
  • Super Calendared Kraft (SCK)
  • Poly Coated Kraft (PCK)
  • Clay Coated Kraft (CCK)
  • Moisture Stable and Specialty Base Papers

Film Release Liners: Film release liners are used in a diverse range of applications serving many industries. Film release liners offer good durability and exposure to environmental elements. The Fox River Associates product offering includes a variety of film substrates and thicknesses delivering a range of performance in strength, flexibility and appearance to meet the specific requirements of the application. 

Fox River Associates Film Substrates for Release Liners:

  • Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
  • High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
  • Polypropylene (PP)
  • Polyester (PET)
  • Specialty Coextruded Films

Release liners from Fox River Associates are available one side coated (S1S) or two side coated (S2S). S2S release liners are available in equal or differential release coatings to suit your application requirements.

The experienced team at Fox River Associates is available to consult with you today about release liners and your needs. Email us at info@foxriverassociates.com, or call us today at 1-800-647-6579. We’re ready to work with you.

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