Some common facts or problems the reflective sheeting will encounter
1. When the reflective sheeting is over, it’s the best time for usage.
There may be many troubles when the reflective film is over the best time for usage.
For instance, the reflective film surface will fade, have uneven brightness, or even fall off.
If the reflective film used in the sign exceeds its service life, the information indicated will be unclear, and it will not be able to provide correct road information and ensure road safety, which may endanger safe driving.
2. The change of road information
There are often some road rectifications, changes, or road name changes, which conflict with the original road signs (reflective film) content, so there is a need to replace the reflective film.
How to select high-quality reflective sheeting?
With the development of the reflective sheeting industry, more and more companies are joining this industry.
So, there are many more factors to stimulate the update of products as well as the study concerning the technologies.
In this situation, reflective film products are changing with each passing day.
They have the characteristics of higher reflective brightness, stronger adhesive properties, or more convenient use, which better ensure road driving safety, and also promote the replacement of reflective film.
When replacing the reflective sheeting, what preparations should we do?
Taking road signs as an example, there are three steps:
1. Having a knowledge of the concrete applications and making decisions about what types of it you use.
Reflective film will have different uses in scenes according to its concrete applications, so you have to pay attention to the selection of material for this purpose.
Only when you do these things before will the reflective film have its best effects.
2. Measure the size of the reflective film required
Before replacing the reflective film, it is advised to measure the size as well as the quantity of the sign aluminum plate. After that, you can place an order.
3. Determine the content and processing method of the sign
Besides measuring the size of reflective film, you are supposed to decide the content in these road signs and the approaches to manufacturing.
Common processing methods for reflective film include engraving, digital printing, screen printing, and inkjet printing.
Application of engineering-grade reflective film in the field of security
In the early 1980s, the reflective sheeting in China was used in the signage industry.
With the development of the reflective sheeting industry, it has been widely used in the road traffic safety industry.
This type of industry mainly utilizes reflective film as its major reflective material.
As for the road traffic signs, the second type of super engineering-grade reflective film material has irreplaceable functional advantages.
We can see the ultra-engineering grade reflective film in road traffic signs, various road traffic facilities such as raised road signs, contour signs, traffic cones, anti-skid cylinders, as well as car license plates, railway lines, etc.
Meanwhile, as the 3M engineering grade reflective film occurs, the traditional criterion for assessing reflective film’s adhesion performance, wear resistance, weather resistance, anti-fouling and anti-fading performance, ground anti-slip performance, and engineering construction performance is not suitable.
Therefore, we have added reflective performance and chromaticity performance index values in the rain.
We are constantly improving the requirements for reflective materials to ensure that reflective materials have a very obvious warning effect due to their bright colors during the day.
Even in a low-visibility situation, the effects of reflection can also make the traffic signs have a warning function, which, in another aspect, will reduce traffic accidents.
