Custom Silicone Rollers for Hot Stamp Decoration
Benefits & Options
Market-leading repeatability, adhesion and size range
Our Silicone Rubber Roller Team carefully engineers and crafts rollers for optimal performance in each unique application. Our rollers provide market-leading:
- Silicone-to-Metal Bond (proprietary process)
- Repeatability
- Thermal Conductivity
- Size Range
Roller Options
United Silicone offers an industry-leading size range and wide variety of roller options. We provide complete rollers (cores plus coverings) as well as roller re-coats for hot stamp, heat transfer or heat seal applications. Our rollers can be used on our systems as well as competitor systems.
Roller Uses
United Silicone´s Silicone Rubber Rollers are an ideal choice for a number of applications. They can provide branding, tipping, laminating, hot stamping, heat transfer or seat seal support on flat, raised, curved and cylindrical surfaces.
Benefits
Silicone conforms readily to surface variations in molded plastic parts, ensuring smooth application of hot stamp foils, multicolor heat transfers and sealing films.
Armed with cutting-edge technology and decades of experience, United Silicone´s Roller Team can provide many superior or market-leading benefits.
Superior Repeatability
Smooth Surface
- All United Silicone rollers are precision ground post-molding to ensure a perfect surface finish as well as a consistent, circular outside diameter (OD).
- Helps ensure superior repeatability.
Precision Contours
- Our new CNC system allows us to digitally profile contoured roller applications resulting in rollers that precisely fit part shape, accounting for all profiles and contours.
- Programs can be stored and repeatability ensured from roll to roll.
- Significant time savings allowing for faster turnaround.
Market-Leading Adhesion
Our expertise at silicone-to-metal bonding is so deep – it is in our name “United Silicone”.
Our proprietary process involves chemically bonding silicone compounds (raw material) to the steel or aluminum core. The silicone is cured/vulcanized in the same step as it is bonded to the roller core. This results in a silicone-to-metal bond far superior to alternatives. Eliminate concerns about silicone delaminating from your core without the need of messy and unreliable adhesives.
Market-Leading Size Range
United Silicone provides the largest range of roller sizes. We offer outside diameter measurements up to 20 inches (compared to 8-inch size commonly available) as well as face lengths up to 110 inches (4x longer than sizes commonly available).
Additional Benefits
Seamless Finish
Eliminates the appearance of a ‘meeting point’Resulting in blemish-free contact and heat transfer.
Superior Thermal Conductivity
Silicone does not become sticky or gummyOur formulations are highly thermally conductive and can tolerate temperatures up to 550°F. Thermosil has the added benefit of providing quick recovery from heat loss when rollers are internally heated versus external shrouds.
We Understand Your Application
Expertise in entire decorating process as well as in your marketOur expertise in both systems and consumables design combined with decades of market-specific expertise, leaves us well positioned to provide rollers carefully optimized for your unique application.
Recoats - Significant Cost Savings
New option for heat seal applicationsOur heat tolerant silicone formulations will not become gummy or sticky and do not require Teflon coating. When the silicone becomes worn- the roller can simply be recoated with a new silicone.
