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In planning stages for huge food distibution wharehouse. Some areas are a constant 0 degrees (f) some -20. Most would be screen printed but in the case of the oddball one-off, vinyl may hit a few. Wouldn't be mounted to anything cold, just need to last in the extended cold. Opinions/facts on who's adhesive would last best?
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I think you will find that most vinyl manufacturers' products will work in these conditions. To be sure, review their spec sheets.
Two areas of concern in relation to temperature are service temperature and minimum application temperature.
Most vinyl films on the market have a service temperature (a temperature range within which the adhesive will perform for its intended service life) well outside of the range you described.
Minimum application temperature refers to the temperature of the application environment AND the substrate to which your graphics are applied.
Many people don't realize that adhesive is actually a viscous liquid...and that after you've created an intimate contact between the adhesive and the substrate by squeegeeing, it continues to flow into the substrate during "dwell time" (ideally 24 hours in ambient room temperature). The colder the "dwell" environment and/or the substrate, the less fluid the adhesive...and therefore a greater potential for failure.
In other words: apply the graphics in a warm environment to a warm substrate and let them dwell for 24 hours (ideally) before turning on the cold.
Hope that helps.
-------------------- Jon Aston MARKETING PARTNERS "Strategy, Marketing and Business Development" Tel 705-719-9209 Posts: 1724 | From: Barrie, ON, CANADA | Registered: Sep 2000
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Mark, we had to do a job that went up in Antartica several years ago and were concerned about how it would hold up in those conditions. We checked with 3M and they said cold is no problem, it is the heat that takes its toll on the vinyl. We were informed that the signs are doing well.
-------------------- Bill Riedel Riedel Sign Co., Inc. 15 Warren Street Little Ferry, N.J. 07643 billsr@riedelsignco.com Posts: 2953 | From: Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA | Registered: Feb 1999
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