Company Profile

Company Profile

adphosNIR® is one of the fastest growing drying technologies for ink jet printing and coating particularly for water based applications. Adphos have pioneered the technology and enhanced its output to provide a very high power density into the ink or coating film leaving the paper and plastic substrate largely unaffected by this energy. The high power density found at this particular wave length drives out the water (or solvent) very rapidly ensuring that the print or coating is dry within a very small foot print. This ensures that production machinery can include an efficient drying system without taking excessive amounts of machinery or shop floor space.

adphos is a world leader in the design, development and supply of both ink jet drying systems and ink jet head positioning systems. Working together with inkjet head manufactures adphos can allow customers to enter the world of in line inkjet printing and personalisation without compromise to substrate and running speed. The head positioning systems are a very robust and precise pieces of equipment providing close register between ink jet heads and have mounting rail and buckets that can maintain register in both X and Y direction within at least half a pixel. This can also be maintained when the heads are moved out for maintenance purposes and slid back into position to resume printing.

The adphos head positioning systems including web control and adphos NIR drying technology are now being utilised to run CMYK printing using Inkjet printing technology.

In the early 1990’s, following the successful application of NIR technology for space research, the original adphos company was founded.

Following a group reorganization in 2009, adphos Innovative Technologies GmbH (AIT), adphos Digital Printing GmbH (ADP) and adphos Thermal Processing GmbH (ATP) were formed. The focus of the companies lies in applications of thermal processes for drying and heating and the distribution of standard components (NIR drying and heating modules). The group can also offer the design and engineering of special purpose machines.

Whether the application is the quick and controlled drying of ink jet ink or drying / curing of coated surfaces, adphosNIR®-technology will provide this:

* within seconds
* defined and reproducible
* on temperature sensitive materials
* energy efficiently.

Our target is, to provide our customers with optimum solutions and provide them with high added value output. Therefore, the needs and requirements of our customers always have priority.