SMetal / Steel / Aluminum

Full-process Marking Solution for Metal Manufacturing | Specialized Coding & Marking System for Steel Mill, Aluminum Plant and Shipyard

Custom full-line inkjet marking solutions developed for steel smelting and aluminum processing industries. Our solutions cover core production processes including continuous casting marking for steel coils, cold rolling marking for aluminum sheets and profile coding, satisfying full-process traceability requirements spanning from high-temperature hot rolling to finished cold rolling.
Featured with exceptional surface compatibility, the system delivers high-adhesion printing on oily, rusted and high-temperature metal surfaces. It supports diversified marking options such as precise alphanumeric coding, colored LOGO printing and QR traceability coding, enabling steel and aluminum manufacturers to build digital product identity management systems. Backed by practical verification from hundreds of metal integrators and over a decade of industry experience, we supply long-term weather-resistant marking solutions ranging from portable handheld coders to fully automatic inline production marking equipment.

Solutions:

LION TEC provides professional high-adhesion inkjet coding and marking solutions for metal processing, metal parts manufacturing and metal profile production lines. The inkjet printing system is designed to adapt to high-hardness, smooth, and polished metal surfaces, solving the problems of easy falling off, blurring, and poor adhesion of traditional printing on metal materials. The equipment supports high-speed continuous online marking, stable operation in harsh industrial environments such as oil pollution, dust and high temperature, and meets the permanent identification and standardized management requirements of various metal workpieces and metal raw materials.

Application Markets:

Steel plate and steel coil processing, aluminum alloy profiles, copper and aluminum metal materials, stainless steel products, hardware accessories, metal fasteners, metal stamping parts, die-casting metal parts, automotive metal parts, mechanical equipment components, metal pipes, metal molds and industrial metal finished products.

Printable Substrates:

Stainless steel, carbon steel, galvanized steel, aluminum alloy, copper alloy, titanium alloy, iron sheet, metal plating surface, metal oxidation surface, polished metal surface, brushed metal surface, metal coated surface and various high-hardness metal substrates.

Printing Content:

Wafer batch number, wafer SN serial number, chip model specification, production date, lot code, shift code, anti-counterfeit invisible code, two-dimensional traceability QR code, barcode, certification symbol, product parameter information, customized LOGO and customized variable data content.

Ink Features:

1. Eco-friendly formula: Non-toxic, harmless to both the environment and human health.
2. High definition: Delivers sharp, clear print with vivid, bright colors.
3. Extreme temperature resistance: Maintains excellent print quality in high-temperature and low-temperature harsh environments.
4. Strong adhesion: Offers stable, reliable bonding performance on a wide range of substrates.
5. Fast drying: Ultra-quick drying time prevents smudging and significantly improves production efficiency.
6. Chemical resistance: Marks withstand solvents such as alcohol, ensuring readability throughout production and use.
7. Anti-migration: Characters will not shift or blur under pressure or temperature changes, remaining consistently clear and legible.
8. Abrasion resistance: Marks do not fade even after repeated contact and friction, retaining their clarity.
9. Wide color range: Available in black, white, red, yellow, blue, green, invisible, UV-curable, and more, to meet diverse production requirements.

Importance of Component Marking:

1. Standard Industrial Identification: High-adhesion permanent marking meets metal industry production standards and industrial product identification specifications, supporting factory quality inspection and standard delivery.
2. Full Lifecycle Traceability: Unique variable codes realize full-process tracking from raw material incoming, processing, production, testing to finished product delivery and after-sales management.
3. Excellent Surface Adaptability: Effectively solves the marking difficulty of smooth metal surface, avoiding the defects of easy fading and peeling of traditional printing, ensuring long-term clear identification.
4. Strong Environmental Adaptability: The printed marks resist industrial friction, chemical wiping and temperature changes, adapting to complex storage and service environments of metal materials.
5. Improve Production Management Efficiency: Unified batch coding and variable data marking realize automated production statistics, quality control and error prevention, optimizing overall production management.
6. Enhance Brand Image: High-definition and neat marking improves the appearance and standardization of metal products, effectively improving product competitiveness and brand credibility in the metal industry market.

Applications

Fields of Application

  • Coding and marking for steel coils
  • Marking on steel structural components
  • Coding for aluminum sheets and extruded aluminum profiles
  • Ink marking for special-shaped steel tubes
  • Inkjet printing on large-diameter industrial pipelines
  • Identification marking for shipbuilding structural sections
  • Inkjet printing on flat aluminum plates
  • Marking for steel and iron drums
  • Coding for solid aluminum ingots
  • Ink marking for alloy workpieces
  • Surface coding on stainless steel products