Method for producing a structuring agent for texturing an embossable material surface, in particular a resin-containing laminate surface, and structuring agent of this kind

Abstract

A method for producing a structuring agent for texturing an embossable material surface, in particular a resin-containing laminate surface, including the steps of providing a web-shaped carrier material made of paper and/or plastic, applying a UV-curable lacquer layer made of acrylated oligomer to the carrier material, forming a three-dimensional embossed structure into the lacquer layer applied to the carrier material and curing the lacquer layer by irradiation with high-energy radiation, preferably UV light, during the molding of the embossed structure. The invention provides that before the UV-curable lacquer layer is applied at least one adhesion promoter layer including acrylated oligomer, a reactive diluent and a photoinitiator which reacts to high-energy radiation, preferably UV radiation, is applied onto the carrier material, and that the lacquer layer having the embossed structure is cured by irradiation with high-energy radiation, preferably UV light, to such an extent that, in the finished state, the structuring agent has an average Martens hardness according to DIN EN ISO 14577 in the range from 10 to 80 N/mm, preferably in the range from 30 to 80 N/mm, the indenter used as a test body for measuring the Martens hardness being pressed into the surface of the lacquer layer having the embossed structure. A structuring agent is also disclosed.