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INTRODUCTION
UV curing is generally recognized to offer a number of
benefits and advantages over the use of conventional, or
solvent—based materials. Some of these benefits can be
directly related to cost while others are less tangible, and
relate toproduct performance, quality, durability, or safety,
for examples. Both tangible and intangible factors are quite
specific to different applications or uses of UV curable
materials. The set of advantages in one application may be
substantially different from another. This tends to allow only
generalizations about the benefits of iv curing. It also tends
to make them vague. Underlying these generalities are some
very real specific advantages.
The following discussion is an effort to distinguish some
of the economic benefits of using UV in a variety of
applications and recognize some of the functional benefits. In
this discussion, it becomes apparent that the hierarchy of
concerns and objectives differ with various products, processes
and businesses. For. example, the trade-off of capital
investment versus operating cost savings will vary from case to
case. Environmental and health and safety factors must be
considered, and in many instances have become of primary
importance.
The material that follows is a collection of economicrelated
benefit factors which are present in a diversity of UV
applications. It is not intended to be a universal
justification for theuse.of UV, but rather to be a helpful
guide. It is hoped that these examples will provide a broad
view of benefits for analyses in which economic impact is a
factor in the decision to utilize or convert to the use of UV.
Because they are drawn from a number of industries, they will
not uniformly apply to all; however, they should be
instructive.
