Gluing & laminating

We connect what should stay together for a long time

We can bond paper, cardboard, paperboard, foils, plastic sheets and many other materials together, as well as making them self-adhesive.

Creating new materials

By gluing several individual layers together, you get an exclusive material that is not available commercially. This results in great eye-catchers such as:

– Business cards made of different colored cardboard, for example red on the front and green on the back, so-called duplex composites.

– Extra thick business cards, invitations, cards with 1 or 2mm thickness

– Extravagant business cards or mailings with surfaces made of real linen, velvety velour or imitation leather

– Recesses for inserts: Moreover, two uniform materials do not always have to be joined together: For inlay work or low objects, one of the two layers can be provided with punched recesses. Inserts can then be placed in these recesses.

Classic applications for laminating paper to cardboard

Typical products are also all printed products with 1, 2 or 3mm cardboard cores:

Ceiling hangers, door hangers, decorative material for shop windows and POS, cards for games such as memory, but also extra-strong mailings and invitations

Doubling up for more strength

Many types of paper are also only available in grammages up to 300g/m², i.e. around 0.3mm. So what do you do if someone likes the paper but wants it thicker? Many people have already had to look for a different material with a heavy heart. However, this is not necessary: we are happy to combine 2 layers of your desired paper and you’ll get paper the thickness of thick cardboard or even solid cardboard.

Overcoming the maximum material thickness of printing machines

Many printing machines will soon be limited to the maximum material thickness that can be processed. Similarly, difficult motifs, such as dark solid areas, can often no longer be printed cleanly with thicker grammages. In both of these cases, laminating prints together on lower grammages also helps to meet customer requirements for higher material thicknesses.

You can find more information on the achievable thicknesses and formats here on the composite materials page.

Almost anything can become a sticker!

Applying an adhesive layer with masking paper is also particularly attractive. In this way, you can turn almost any flat material into a sticker, whether wood, leather, cardboard, plastic or whatever you need self-adhesive.

Print decorative coating and laminate onto panels

We also laminate printed, self-adhesive decorative films on carrier boards up to 35 mm thick. Material widths of up to 160cm are processed automatically. Above this, we laminate by hand, if required also on your premises.

You can find more information about contour-cut, self-adhesive decorative films, such as adhesive lettering and adhesive logos, here!

(Lamination of self-adhesive films is not film lamination! But we can do that too 🙂

Some terms can easily lead to confusion without any context. In the printing industry, “film lamination” is the application of a wafer-thin protective coating to the surface of heavily used paper print products, such as paperback books or menus. Conceptually similar, quite different, but we do that too: You can find more information here.