Embossing

Embossing is the technique that gives your film that final professional look. There are a number of different ways to emboss a film depending on the feel that the client wants.

The technical definition of embossing is to change a flat surface into a shaped surface, giving some areas on the surface depth as relative to some other places on the surface. We can emboss just about any material that is flat and malleable, including glass, textile fabric, nonwovens, metal foil, paper, plastic film and leather.

Why to Emboss

You may want to emboss a material for purely cosmetic reasons. However, you may also go through the process of embossing in order to reconfigure the physical properties of a source material. Embossing has the ability to dramatically change the way that materials interact with other things, changing properties such as elasticity, durability, strength and absorbency.

In most cases, embossing will make your material thicker. It may also be used to bond layers of material to each other.