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What Is Reflective Sheeting?

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 What is reflective sheeting? The reflective sheeting film is mainly used to keep traffic safe, with reflective features and self-adhesive side, can be used for screen print, digital print, UV print, plotter cut, and hot stamping, embossing.  Reflective sheeting is different from a reflective fabric, it is mainly applied outdoor. You can see them on the road, construction site, license plate, truck body. According to the applications, the features of reflective sheeting films can meet various requirements of applications.  Grades of retroreflective sheeting Through the high-intensity reflective film and license plate, reflective sheeting can be used for almost all applications, but the cost is too high for some low requirements applications. Thus the retro-reflective film is divided into four grades to fit the different applications at suitable prices. Commercial grade reflective sheeting Commercial grade reflective sheeting is a kind of economical retro-reflec...

Hydro Dipping How Does It Works?

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 Hydro Dipping How Does It Works? Water transfer printing is a revolutionary surface treatment technology, can print various designs on the complicated curved product surface, thus more popular than the traditional printing technology. How does water transfer printing works? The principle is to print the texture design on the specially processed polymer film, then place it on the transfer machine, transfer the texture design on the product under the water pressure. After washing and dry out, supply the gloss painting, the printed product will show excellent visional effect. Advantage 1.  Can print design on the complicated shape  Hydro dipping can print the design on the complex concave and convex appearances, aim to solve the printing problem for complicated shape products, which is a problem that can't be solved by traditional printing technology.  No matter pad printing, screen printing, surface coating, or other processes, they can't print th...

Why Window Tinting?

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As a mobility tool, the car is coming into many families. How to maintain your vehicle is a popular topic all the time. In this way, the window tint film is a protective film for car, which is also important for your car and your safety. Let's know more about the functions of car vinyl film. 1. UV protection Many people go out by their vehicle, which makes us stay a long time with our car in a day. If you don't paste good window tint film for your car window, you will face the strong sunshine directly without any protection and block. As time goes by, your skin will be damaged by the UV in the sunshine. Dry skin and accelerate skin aging.  About the UV damage to your skin, it will waste your effort for your skincare by skincare products.  The UV in the sunshine also will cause fading damage to your car interiors, reduce their service life. But the quality window tint film can block the ultraviolet rays up to 99%. 2. Security  As a driver, most of us have car insurance to ...

Why Double Veneer Wardrobes ?

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Why Double Veneer Wardrobes? Double veneer wardrobes have the same designs' decorative paper on both sides, not only has the resistance features but also give you a good feel in same design compared with the wardrobes which have wood design outside but white color inside.  The advantages of double veneer wardrobes Double veneer wardrobes are made of an artificial board that is pasted with decorative paper on the surface. As the popular furniture for wardrobes, the double veneer wardrobe has its superior advantages as below: 1. Various designs There are various designs on the surface of the veneer, and the designs are natural, includes wood grain, marble, matte, solid patterns for selections, suitable for kinds of house styles. 2. No need for painting The double veneer wardrobes are decorated and protected by decorative paper, own smooth and flat surface, no need to paint again to get the better decorative effect, because it already had an excellent decorative effect, and no pa...

What are the functions and requirements of flame retardant reflective fabrics?

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What are the functions and requirements of flame retardant reflective fabrics?  For non-frontline workers, perhaps in our daily life, we have less knowledge and attention on flame-retardant reflective fabrics , reflective materials, and other information. At most, we can see clothing with reflective fabrics. So what are flame-retardant reflective fabrics? What are the functions and requirements?   1. Washing requirements before testing:    A.75 degrees, wash 12 times (following the industrial washing method of EN ISO 10528; it can also be washed 5 times according to customer requirements, and then tested.    B. Immerse the sample in water (BS 5651:1978), dry clean it 5 times according to ISO 3175, and then perform the test. This method is suitable for chemical fiber, pure cotton, blended fabrics, and reflective fabrics.   2. Meet ASTM1506; before washing or dry cleaning, press D6413 to perform vertical burning, and the continuous burning time is up to 2 seconds; after 25 washing or...

The principle of 3M reflective material

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The principle of 3M reflective material The 3M reflective material products are around our life, you can find them everywhere in the poor lighting environment, such as reflective raincoats, safety vests, reflective shoes, reflective helmets, etc.  All of them show high brighter visibility than their surroundings, do you know why it is so eye-catching in the poor light situation? I will show you the principle of 3M reflective material in the following. 3M reflective material is based on the principle of light retroreflection. In order to ensure the reflected light can reflect in the same direction as the incident light, 3M reflective material makes use of the (miro glass beads)/(miro prism) to control the path of reflected light.  Miro glass beads Miro prism Miro glass beads and miro prism on the surface of reflective material can collect the incident lights and refect them into the same direction, even the angle of incident light has a big change so that the 3M reflective mate...

How to clean reflective material?

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 How to clean reflective material? Actually, I don't suggest you wash the reflective material frequently, it will make some miro glass beads fall off during the washing process, then weak the reflective effect of the material, thus you need to reduce the washing times for your reflective product. If your reflective material is dirty, please don't wash the reflective material by water directly, I will teach you how to clean the reflective material in the following.  PS: If only a little dirty on the reflective material, just wipe it with a soft cloth. When it really needs to be cleaned, you can follow the next way to clean the reflective material. Preparations: A neutral detergent and cold water (temperature is lower than 30 degrees), soft cloth. Steps to clean the reflective material: 1. Put the neutral detergent into the cold water 2. Touch the mixed water with a soft cloth 3. Wipe the reflective material 4. After the reflective material is cleaned, it can be dried in th...

How does reflective material works?

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 How does reflective material works? Reflective materials are applied in our surroundings, you can see reflective material from the highway signs, road signs, construction zone, and construction work clothing, traffic police clothing, even display on the bike, truck body, graphic on the garment, helmet or shoes. They are very eye-catching, have high brightness at night, but how does it work?  The principle of reflective material is to collect the surrounding light by multi retro reflection, then reflect all collected light into the same direction with original lighting by stronger lighting form than before, to achieve the high visibility of the reflective material. In order to achieve the whole reflective effect, the miro glass beads are used on the surface of reflective material, to finish the multi retro reflection.  The basic principle of reflection Miro glass beads When miro glass beads are coated on the surface, and more than half of beads are inserted into the kinds...

What Is Car Color Changing Film?

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What Is Car Color Changing Film?  Car color-changing film is also called car wrap, is a kind of stretchable plastic vinyl wrap for car body, can change the color of the car body, makes your car look like a new one, and change a new style at small budget. Therefore, car body wrap is very popular in the car changing market, almost you can get the car coloring changing service at any car wrap shop or auto repair shop. The material of car color changing film The common materials of car wrap include three types: PVC, TUP, Vinyl. PVC:  PVC material has an excellent hard feature that can protect the car body when the collision, this is the main reason to choose this PVC material as the raw material of the color-changing film. But as time goes by, the quality of the color-changing film will get weak under the exposure to sunshine and rain. So you also need to maintain your car body after wrapping a color-changing film. TPU: TPU material has good weather resistance, can protect the ve...

What Is Reflective Fabric?

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What Is Reflective Fabric? Reflective fabric is a kind of cloth that is used for clothing marking,  its application looks like the common fabric for clothing, but the reflective fabric has retroreflective features, can reflect the lighting from original light, to enhance the visibility of someone who wears the reflective clothing.  Thus the reflective fabric is mainly used for safety clothing, also used for casual garments, and fashionable clothing in recent years. Why has reflective feature for reflective fabric  The retroreflective feature is coming from the micro glass beads on the surface of the based fabric. According to the different requirements of different applications, the intensity of the reflection is different. For the details, you can visit my other blog: How does reflective material work . For example, fireproof reflective tape for firefighters has a high requirement of intensity reflection and fireproof features; then safety uniform for traffic poli...

Why multifunctional reflective protective clothing?

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Why multifunctional reflective protective clothing?  I believe everyone knows more or less about reflective protective clothing, but when it comes to multi-functional reflective protective clothing, some people may be confused: Does the multifunctional have any special features? Or is it just a few more reflective strips?  Today, I will take everyone to understand what is multi-functional reflective protective clothing and what it does.    General duty reflective vests only have front and back reflections, and the sides cannot reflect light, so they cannot provide good protection for outdoor law enforcement personnel. When they are directing traffic when the front and back are facing the red light, vehicles are prohibited; when standing on the side, motor vehicles pass.  At this time, the side of the reflective vest cannot reflect light, which will bring safety hazards to the traffic police. The fluorescent yellow of the new reflective protective duty suit is very ey...