RadTech 2024 Update: 60% of Exhibits Already Sold
RadTech already has sold 60% of the exhibit space for RadTech 2024 UV+EB Technology Expo & Conference, taking place May 20-22, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Orlando in Orlando, Florida. Availability for booth spaces is on a ‘first-come, first-served’ basis. To streamline the process, RadTech is using an online sales platform that allows participants to view the exhibition hall’s layout, review the spaces available and choose preferred booth location.
Another option for purchasing booth space is to contact Mickey Fortune at RadTech, especially when considering the combination of multiple 10×10 booth spaces to create a larger exhibition. When reviewing exhibit space availability, booths in green are taken, those in purple are available and booths with a red X through them are on hold. RadTech members are reminded to email Mickey Fortune at mickey@radtech.org to receive the member discount rate. For more information, visit https://radtech.org/radtech24/.
RadLaunch Committee Announces 2024 UV/EB Degradability Challenge
The RadTech RadLaunch Committee has announced the 2024 UV/EB Degradability Challenge. This challenge highlights an important pillar of sustainability: Designing products with their end-of-life (EOL) in mind. RadLaunch Challenge winners will receive an expenses-paid trip to RadTech 2024 in May in Orlando, Florida, to present their work, as well as cash prizes.
When a product is discarded, it too often ends up contributing to the accumulation of non-biodegradable waste in landfills and ecosystems. It is crucial for new technologies and products to prioritize product degradability, rather than add to the ongoing pollution crisis. The RadLaunch Committee invites applications for innovative submissions across the degradability spectrum and product development chain that utilize UV/EB technology. This includes but is not limited to:
- Degradable raw materials used in the development of UV-/EB-cure formulations;
- Finished products converted with UV/EB that are degradable, such as 3D-printed items, consumer electronics or food packaging; and
- Formulated UV/EB inks, coatings, adhesives, composites and 3D printing resins. These items must be degradable themselves and/or not substantially reduce degradability of the substrate on which they are printed.
Learn more and submit a proposal at https://radlaunch.org/2024-uveb-degradability-challenge/.
Webinar: Unlocking the Benefits of Structural Color with UV-Curable Inks and Coatings Based on Novel Brush Block Copolymer Technology
Speaker Ryan Pearson, CEO of Cypris Materials, Inc., presented a webinar on unlocking the benefits of structural color with UV-curable inks and coatings based on novel brush block copolymer technology. The webinar was held on November 15, 2023, and will be available online for later viewing.
Structural color is a unique phenomenon that doesn’t rely on pigments or dyes to impart coloration to a surface. It emerges from the interaction of light with the physical structure of an object containing microscopic repeating layers or patterns. This phenomenon is naturally occurring, with many biological and geological examples.
An emerging approach pioneered by Cypris Materials to create structural color uses the natural phenomenon of self-assembly and an architecturally unique copolymer formulated as an UV-curable ink or paint to create coatings with the requisite multi-layer structure. Benefits of this bio-inspired technology include reduced carbon footprint by eliminating the need for traditional colorants; a recycle-friendly, metal-free design; a full palette of highly chromatic colors based on common raw materials; and the potential to achieve special effects in digital printing.
View this and other webinars at www.radtech.org.
