Getting started with ordering self adhesive release liners for medical, tape, composites, and other applications involves several important steps to ensure that you identify the self adhesive release liners that meet the performance requirements, quality expectations and regulatory requirements for your application.
Fox River Associates has 30+ years of helping release liner users navigate the process and identify paper release liners and film release liners that perform successfully in their operations. The experienced Fox River Associates team is ready to work with you step-by-step to understand your performance requirements, your technical specifications, your regulatory requirements, your qualification and scale-up needs, and your inventory requirements.
Call us today at 1-800-647-6579 or use the form on this page. Our team is ready to work with you.
Understanding Your Requirements to Identify the Appropriate Release Liner
Self adhesive release liners are not a one-size-fits-all product. There is a wide variety of combinations available based on substrates (films, papers, specialty substrates), release coatings, and coating methods. Each release liner combination is designed to meet specific performance characteristics of the application it will serve.
The Fox River Associates team will begin by helping you understand your requirements:
- Application Specifics: Define the specific applications for which you need release liners. Examples of medical applications include wound dressings, transdermal patches, and surgical drapes. Building & Construction examples include anti-skid/surface, soundproofing, waterproofing, and seam or flashing tape.
- Performance Requirements: Determine any critical characteristics your release liners must possess. Medical applications may need biocompatibility or sterilizability. Release liners used in composite applications, including prepreg manufacturing operations, are exposed to extreme temperature conditions.
- Regulatory Standards: Familiarize yourself with regulatory requirements applicable to your application and market.
Helping you understand your requirements for self adhesive release liners is at the core of the service Fox River Associates offers. We work in partnership with customers to help identify the most appropriate release liner options for your application requirements. Message us today at info@foxriverassociates.com today or call us at 1-800-647-6579. We’re ready to work with you.
Evaluate Technical Specifications:
It is important to verify that the release liner materials you are using are compatible with the adhesives and substrates used in your applications. With a multitude of papers and films used in release liners, identifying the appropriate liner is critical to success.
- Filmic release liner substrate selection: Film release liners are available in a wide spectrum of substrates including HDPE, LDPE, PET, PP, Flat LDPE (no silicone), embossed films and other specialty films. Based on your applications’ requirements, the Fox River Associates team can help recommend the filmic release liners best suited to ensure your success. Industrial release liner applications include foam packaging and gaskets and can utilize film release liner substrates HDPE, LDPE, PET, PP, and specialty film release liner substrates.
- Paper release liner substrate selection: Paper release liners are also available in a wide spectrum of substrates including direct coated papers (Glassine and Super Calendared Kraft), clay coated kraft, poly coated kraft and specialty papers. Paper release liners are used in many release liner applications from medical wound care applications to self adhesive tape liners and graphic arts applications. Examples of medical applications include wound dressings, transdermal patches, and surgical drapes. Building & Construction examples include anti-skid/surface, soundproofing, waterproofing, and seam or flashing tape.
- Adhesives compatibility: There is a multitude of adhesive and chemical compounds that film release liners and paper release liners are designed to be compatible with. Common adhesives include acrylic, hotmelt, removable and rubber adhesives. These adhesives are found in medical, tape, label, graphic arts, industrial and specialty converting applications. Specialized adhesives such as hydrocolloid and hydrogel adhesives are found in medical applications using paper release liners and film release liners. Release liners in the aerospace & composites industries are often used to carry hot melt cyanate ester resin, hot melt epoxy resin, misc. hot melt resins and solvated resin systems. In addition to acrylic and hot melt adhesives, release liners in the building and construction industry can also be used to carry butyl.
Let our technical team help you evaluate your technical requirements and specifications for substrates and adhesives. Use the form on this page, or message us at info@foxriverassociates.com today.
Understanding Your Supplier’s Strengths
Every release liner application has a distinctly unique set of properties that the release liner must work with – adhesives, coatings, manufacturing environment, coating environment, die cutting, slitting, hand, or machine release, etc. In such a tailored product environment, customer partnerships are of paramount importance. For release liners, the partnership between Fox River Associates and our customers is one of close collaboration to create products that meet the unique requirements, specifications, and needs of application. Here’s the 5 Top Reasons to Partner with Fox River Associates.
- Innovation and Problem-Solving: Working together with customers create a collaborative environment and fosters innovation to solve challenges and explore innovative ideas. When we work with you, we can leverage our years of experience and technical expertise to develop innovative solutions that address your unique needs, leading to improved products and processes. At Fox River Associates we ask the right questions to ensure we’re working towards your success.
- Market Understanding: Fox River Associates has been in the release liner business for more than 35 years. Our experienced team has worked on release liner applications in all the major release liner markets: Automotive, Building & Construction, Composites, Medical, Industrial, Label / Graphic Arts, Tape, and Specialty Converting. Our team stays connected to the industry market trends, emerging needs and evolving technologies. We offer the latest technical products and unparalleled technical knowledge.
- Tailored Highest Quality Products: Technical product applications often need to fulfill specific and sometimes complex requirements. A strong partnership with customers enables Fox River Associates to gain deep insights into our customers’ processing conditions, technical requirements, and the products’ end-use requirements. These insights allow us to deliver the highest quality release liner products that are appropriate to those requirements. This ensures that the final approved product is fit-for-purpose and performs optimally.
- Reduced Lead Times: We focus on helping our customers sustain and grow their business by having release liner products available when, how and where customers need them. Fox River Associates’ customers are not restricted by large minimum order quantities or long lead times. Our service includes supplying release liner in rolls that match the width and length that makes the most sense for our customers’ unique processes.
- Long-Term Relationships: We build strong customer partnerships which lead to long-term relationships. We want to be your primary release liner supplier and continue to grow together. Our unique approach to service ensures you get a consistent, reliable supply of the highest quality release liners for your needs.
Ready to learn more about self adhesive release liners and how Fox River Associates can help you succeed? Use the form on this page, or message us at info@foxriverassociates.com today. Our experienced team is ready to work with you.
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