Ecological tarpaulins, a bet for a better future

You can achieve the necessary impact to advertise your brand, with a lower environmental impact thanks to eco-friendly tarpaulins.

Greener advertising options and urban decoration to achieve your goal and ensure cleaner environments.

At Moviments Gràfics we are attentive to the technological advances in our sector and we are in continuous contact with the tarpaulin factories. We analyze the new technologies that give us the opportunity to collaborate in the improvement of air quality.

Thanks to research in collaboration with NASA, it has been possible to develop a technology thanks to which the advertising tarpaulins can be printed with a treatment that can reduce pollution levels, clean the air and eliminate bacteria, humidity and bad odors.

This is achieved through the photocatalysisa natural phenomenon in which a substance, the photocatalyst (titanium dioxide), in the presence of light, air and humidity, activates an oxidative process that leads to the decomposition of organic and inorganic contaminants which, when in contact with these surfaces treated with the titanium dioxide varnish, produce a chemical reaction and transform pollutant and toxic particles in the air into O2.

Every _^3m2 of treated printed canvas provides benefits to our air equivalent to that of a mature tree.

Ecological tarpaulins, advertising that cleans the air

Examples of large format decontaminating advertising tarpaulins:

“Shiseido places anti-pollution tarpaulin in Madrid. “

“Ginsa Publicidad Exterior installs two tarpaulins that reduce pollution in Madrid”.

“Pollution-absorbing advertising tarpaulins installed in Madrid and Bilbao”.

The market has also opted for ecological, PVC-free and biodegradable tarpaulins.

The tarpaulin material used is polyester and the resistance characteristics are similar to those of conventional tarpaulins.

UV inks are used for sustainable printing.

Ecological Inks

In the 1970s, due to the interest of printers who were looking for a more efficient method of lower environmental impact that did not emit as many pollutants at the time of printing, as is the case with solvent printing, and that used less energyIn the past, several brands opted for UV technology, developing printers that used this type of ink.

In 2009, the first printers with latex ink also came onto the market, an environmentally friendly alternative to UV ink for high-quality images with vivid colors and sharp shapes on different types of media.

UV inks:

• It does not dry, it cures, it is practically instantaneous.

• Curing is done by polymerization and not by evaporation, the odor they give off is extremely low and they do not require fume extractors.

• Mercury lamps were previously used for this process and have now been replaced by LED lamps, so energy consumption is lower.

• There is also no need to pre- or post-heat surfaces or incorporate dryers, thus increasing the speed of production.

Latex inks:

• They are composed mainly of water, are environmentally friendly, do not give off odor or harmful gases.

• In addition to water, color pigment and synthetic polymer, it contains additional substances such as humectants and wetting agents that facilitate the adhesion of the ink to the substrate, which gives it great benefits in terms of scratch resistance.

UV-curable inks and latex are already the main printing technology.