Upm Raflatac Oy

Katarzyna Wojtuś

Marko Tiainen

Markku Havonen

A method for manufacturing a linerless label web () comprising a direct thermal printable coating and a patterned pressure sensitive adhesive () is provided. The method comprises arranging a substrate comprising the direct thermal printable coating as a face stock (), applying water-based adhesive coating () onto the face stock (), providing the face stock () with alternating adhesion areas and adhesion-free areas in a transversal direction of the face stock, ensuring the adhesion-free areas with a pre-determined level of moisture, and thermally drying the water-based adhesive coating () into the pressure sensitive adhesive ().

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Wrocław, Poland

Katarzyna Wojtuś