INKCID from the Torrecid Group provides the ceramics sector with global decorating solutions that can be used with every digital printing machine. With INKCID, the Torrecid Group has provided to the ceramics industry with two essential aspects for its own future: differentiation and productivity.

The portfolio reflects the Group’s ambitious Mission Statement: “Provoke change through global leadership in innovation to generate new solutions and future trends to provide the best competitive advantages and the maximum added value.”

INKCID Products

• Differentiated products with high added value.

• A wide variety of new effects.

• Customised decoration.

• The colour schemes of natural products such as stone, marble, and wood.

• Ability to develop new ideas, designs and projects.

• Higher print quality than other technologies.

• An unlimited number of different designs.

• Edge-to-edge decoration.

• High definition decoration in high relief and bas-relief.

Process

• Contactless decoration technology:

• Avoidance of breakage.

• Decoration on any kind of surface.

• Inks supplied ready for use, without prior preparation.

• 100% reliability.

• Total ink usage with no waste.

 • Instant design changes.

 • No false tones due to wear and tear.

• Suitable for floor, wall, porcelain and double fired tiles.

Management

• A small number of inks for all chromatic combinations.

• No need for ink preparation.

• Reduced stock levels.

• 75% reduction is design development.

INKCID inkjet inks are manufactured with the most sophisticated production and control systems to provide the best performance and the highest yield.

Chromacid are pigmented inks manufactured to offer the greatest performance and the highest yield among the various digital printing systems.  Torrecid is the only supplier of magenta ink, which considerably increases the chromatic field, achieving specific colour schemes that are impossible with any other ink.

Metalcid digital inks provide an additional aesthetic value that contributes a great deal to widening the range of products that manufacturers of ceramic tiles can offer to the market.  They provide high added value for “Third-Firing” industry, and have a key role in developing new designs that are impossible to create with other decoration techniques.

Keramcid digital inks provide an additional aesthetic value when delivering ceramic effects on single-fire tiles (porous and porcelain) and double-fire tiles.  They can create a range of effects: micro-relief, transparent matt, white, gloss, metallic, glue, lustre, and carving surface relief.

DG-cid are high definition digital enamels applied by using low thickness digital technology. They provide high added value and can be combined in different coats to deliver unusual effects, such as Transparent Gloss, Opaque Gloss, Matt Transparent, Matt Opaque and Matt Semi-Opaque.

With this innovation in digital ceramic decoration, Torrecid has achieved what the Group calls Full Digital Ceramic, made 100% by digital technology.

TM-CID compositions are specially formulated for applying high thickness layers by digital technology. This makes possible the customization of the relief and glazing, combining a wide variety of effects in only one piece.  The range of potential effects includes Transparent Gloss, Matt, Satin Matt, Transparent Satin Matt, Metallic, Lustre, Colours, and more. T.M-CID represent an unprecedented innovation because it provides a new way of looking ceramic, offering differentiated and high added value products that open up a new world of both technical and aesthetical possibilities because of the digital co-ordination between relief, glazing, and decoration, making Full Digital Ceramic a reality.

Torrecid has also developed SMART-CID: decoration on top of an already fired ceramic tile at low temperature, 750°C to 850ºC. With SMART CID, manufacturers can decorate on top of any surface of an already fired ceramic tile. Providing the following competitive advantages and greater added value to our customers:

• No need of an interface.

• Wide color gamut.

• Lower energy consumption.

• Low breakage rate.

• Maintenance of tones and textures of the bases.

• Possibility to apply on top of ChromaCid, KeramCid, MetalCid, etc.

• Maintenance of the curvatures of the original bases.

• Possibility to decorate already coloured tiles.

• Combine MetalCid with Smart-Cid and low temperature effects.

• Physical-chemical resistance.

Finally, and very important from a sustainability standpoint, ECOINK-CID is the first water-based production solution that can glaze and decorate ceramics in a full digital process.  Among its many possibilities, most notable are glazes with different levels of brightness, matt glazes with all kinds of finishes, inks that cover the entire colour spectrum, inks for ceramic effects, for metal effects, glue solutions for the application of granules, etc.

• Greater definition and performance of colours and ceramic effects.

• Reduced drying times, and improved print quality.

• Special relevance in large formats

• More natural and realistic finishes

• Compatible with the all ceramic applications

• Eco-friendly

• Improved waste management

• Reduced emissions • Can be used with any digital printing machine

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