Read the August 2006 FLEXcon DPM Flex White Sheet for vinyl construction, print and liner notes, test conditions, and current product-status checks. This resource is for manufacturers evaluating custom nameplates, labels, overlays, or related identification components. Use it to prepare your project questions, then talk with our team about the requirements that apply to your part.
FLEXcon’s archived DPM Flex White Sheet PDF combines an application example with a product-data page. The first page presents gloss white vinyl for outdoor-power brand identification; the second records physical and adhesion values. Both pages are marked last modified August 3, 2006.
The date places every claim in its proper frame. The file can explain how the supplier positioned and tested this construction in 2006, but it cannot confirm today’s product status, formulation, recognition, or availability. Current documentation and representative testing are required before considering it for equipment decals.
FLEXcon labels the example “Outdoor Power – Nameplate/Brand ID” and shows a snow-removal machine with applied graphics. The panel discusses branding, printing, legibility, environmental stress, and adhesion to outdoor-power surfaces. It is supplier marketing for a possible use category.
The image and narrative do not identify a U.S. Nameplate customer, finished order, test program, or field result. They also do not establish that every lawn and garden or off-highway application has the same surface and exposure. A new program needs its own requirements.
Page one lists a 3.5-mil flexible white vinyl face with a print-receptive surface. It names a permanent acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive and a layflat 90-pound moisture-stable polycoated liner intended for sheet-form converting.
The white face can provide a consistent background for graphics, but color, opacity, gloss, and print coverage still need approval on a current sample.
Beginning with the carrier, the table gives 175 microns (6.9 mil) and a 10% range for the liner. The white vinyl face is 89 microns (3.5 mil), also with 10% variation. Between them, the acrylic adhesive is listed at 25-28 microns (1.0-1.1 mil) with a separate 0.1-mil range.
These are reported 2006 values. A current construction should be called out by product code and current supplier revision, not reconstructed from the generic words white vinyl, acrylic adhesive, and layflat liner.
The application page says the surface was compatible with most conventional and UV ink systems and recommends evaluating the intended system under application conditions. A current screen-printing trial should include the selected ink, cure, artwork coverage, color standards, and any secondary process.
If a protective layer is proposed, include lamination before evaluating flexibility, gloss, and edge behavior. Print adhesion, face flexibility, and pressure-sensitive adhesion are separate questions; success in one does not prove the others.
A face that follows a broad curve may still lift at a tight edge, return around a corner, or distort beside a fastener. Mark the direction of curvature and the location of every perimeter edge on the application drawing. Include the smallest radius and the worst access condition in the trial.
Apply full-size printed parts rather than plain material coupons. Ink coverage and a laminate can change stiffness, while cutting can introduce narrow tabs or sharp interior corners. Observe the assembly after the customer-defined dwell and cycling periods, and record whether any edge, corner, or high-strain zone behaves differently from the main field.
The table assigns 0.75 to both the machine-direction and transverse-direction dimensional entries. For applied shrinkage, an aluminum-panel specimen first receives 24 hours of dwell and is then held another 24 hours at 160 F.
That result belongs to the stated specimen and method. It does not predict every shape, ink coverage, curved housing, or thermal cycle. A graphic overlay with windows or keys may respond differently from an uninterrupted decal, even if both use flexible film.
The 2006 sheet reports average peel values across ABS, acrylic, powder-coated paints, aluminum, fiberglass, glass, HDPE, painted metal, paper, polycarbonate, polyester, polypropylene, stainless steel, styrene, and other surfaces. Values range from 8-plus ounces per inch on paper to 113 on acrylic under the documented modified ASTM D903 method.
The broad spread is more informative than any single high number. It shows that substrate identity and surface condition influence the result. Even two “plastics” in the table produce different values. Current tests should use the real resin, finish, cleaning procedure, application pressure, temperature, and dwell.
FLEXcon reports 50 hours of room-temperature shear under its stated ASTM D3654 setup and tack of 450 grams per square centimeter under ASTM D2979. These laboratory fields characterize the supplier sample under defined conditions.
A finished decal can introduce edge loading, curvature, handling, ink, and an overlaminate. The converted outline also matters. Use the proposed cutting process, then test actual shapes rather than extrapolating from an unprinted material specimen.
Page one says the adhesive bonded to low- and high-surface-energy plastics, metal, powder-coated paint, paint, ceramic, paper or fiber, glass, and fiberglass. That list describes FLEXcon’s 2006 product positioning. It is not a current statement that every formulation, coating, texture, or contaminated surface is acceptable.
When pressure-sensitive attachment is central to the project, compare current options and test data rather than relying on category names. The adhesive resource page can help frame the questions while the exact current construction supplies the evidence.
Under the archived storage entry, two years assumes 70 F and 50% relative humidity. Other 2006 fields state five years for exterior life, a -40 F to 176 F service interval, and 50 F as the minimum for application. The footer explicitly classifies the information as guidance rather than specification or warranty.
Sunlight, moisture, cleaning, abrasion, edge exposure, substrate movement, color change, and print durability are not resolved by copying the five-year field. Define actual exposures and customer acceptance criteria for the complete part.
The application page says the product was UL-recognized under UL 969 and cites file PGGU2.MH10170. Recognition can depend on material identity, print system, substrate, temperature, and end-use conditions. The 2006 statement cannot verify current scope.
For a recognition-dependent label, obtain the current file and confirm every applicable limitation. U.S. Nameplate’s quality overview does not substitute for the recognition record or the customer’s compliance review.
Bring that brief, quantities, delivery format, and controlled artwork through request consultation. The August 2006 sheet can supply historical context; the current project must supply the acceptance decision.
Also define how received material is identified and rotated. Lot identity, receipt date, packaging condition, and storage environment provide a traceable basis for deciding which material was converted, without assuming the archived two-year storage statement governs current stock.
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