Arctic Materials

Industrial coatings, printing inks and sealants

Formulated against your line, not a catalogue

Over 550 products across 26 categories, made in Greater Noida. Tell us the substrate, the process you run and the performance the finished part has to reach, and our laboratory will specify against it.

550+

Products in the current range

26

Product categories

81

Products added this year

1

Technical centre, Greater Noida

Products

The range, by the work it does

Twenty-six categories grouped into seven. Powder and electrocoat sit in their own group because they are application technologies rather than markets.

5 categories

Printing Inks and Print Finishing

7 categories

Packaging Coatings and Sealants

3 categories

Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coatings

5 categories

Industrial Product Finishing

2 categories

Protective and Infrastructure Coatings

2 categories

Electrical, Electronics and Energy Coatings

2 categories

Application Technologies: Powder and Electrocoat

Added this year

Nine new ranges, eighty-one products

Built out across packaging, labels, digital print, foil, security coatings and closure compounds.

Arcfibre

Paper, Board and Corrugated

14 products

Arcweb

Label and Shrink Sleeve

12 products

Arcvista

Decorative and Special Effect

12 products

Arcfoil

Aluminium Foil and Lidding

11 products

Arcray

Narrow-Web UV Flexo Inks

10 products

Arcprime

Digital Print Primers

7 products

Arcveil

Scratch-Off and Security

6 products

Arcseam

Can-End Sealing Compounds

5 products

Arcliner

Closure Liner Compounds

4 products

How we develop

Development starts with a constraint

Very little coatings work begins with a product idea. It begins with a raw material withdrawn, a recycler refusing a structure, a substrate that will not bond, or a line that has speeded up. We formulate against that constraint, measure the result by published test methods, and qualify it on your own substrate and line.

Technical guides

Published so you can use them, not request them

Two reference guides, open on the site. Most print and coating faults are diagnosed in the wrong order, so the troubleshooting guide lists causes in the order they usually turn out to be responsible.

Application guide

Nine processes, from wide-web gravure to can-end lining machines. What each is good at, what actually sets the film weight, and what we need to know to specify correctly.

Troubleshooting guide

Ninety-three faults across gravure, flexo, coating, sealing and curing. Symptom, likely causes in order of probability, what to check first on press, and the corrective action.

Sustainability

Designing for what happens after the pack

A coating decides whether a pack repulps cleanly, deinks, washes off a bottle, and lands in a recovery stream that actually exists where it is collected. Recyclability is a property of the whole structure, not of the varnish on it, so it has to be tested on the structure rather than asserted.

People

The range is only as good as the bench behind it

Formulation, batch control against an approved reference, and fault diagnosis on samples returned from customer plants all run on the same benches at Greater Noida.

Bring us a constraint

Tell us the substrate, the process you run, the service the finished part has to survive and the specification you are held to. Our technical centre in Greater Noida will work the brief and issue the Technical Data Sheet, Safety Data Sheet and regulatory documentation for whatever it proposes.