Do you need to personalize soles and heels with colors or finishes?

Hereby we will talk about how to apply and personalize heels and soles with varnish with a wide range of colors and finishes available for your soles, heels or shoes production.

Comparing to moulding soles and shoe heels directly with coloured material, application of varnish on a neutral coloured material, allows you to get 3 main advantages:

1. Production optimization

   With a single model of sole or heel moulded in series, you can get “thousand” different variations. You can make a mould for sole or heel, program the production with a single neutral-colored material and then, thanks to the varnishing process, get an infinity number of colors and finishes. This results in a considerable saving of time and money.

2. Personalization

   With the modern available production systems, we can replicate on soles and heels most of the finishing. You can request any colour you need; we will find it for you.

3. Safety

   The evolution of this sector today offers varnish without phthalates and heavy metals, unhealthy for those who work with them and for the environment, maintaining the varnishing characteristics and a short drying time.

 

What types of varnishes can be used?

-Transparent

Polishing or matting varnishes to make the upper surface homogeneous.

– Covering

For varnishing neutral soles and heels.

– Standard Colors

Wide range of colors.

– Personalized colors

Based on customer’s choice, or upon presentation of a color samples

-Grindable, to give a vintage effect

Once applied, the varnish can be partially grindable to give a vintage effect.

– Imitation of the cork, wood, leather and rope effects

To get a varnishing effect on the sole or heel, imitating cork, wood, leather and rope. For getting an excellent effect, we recommend moulding the sole or heel with the surface suitable for the material you want to imitate.

– Metallic

Replicating the metallic effect in gold, silver, grey, brass tonality etc …

– Pearly

For getting a sole/heel with a soft and elegant effect.

– Lacquered, satin, matte

Allows you to create special finishing effects.

– Rubber effect

Gives to the varnished article a rubber effect.

– Striped leather effect for heel bands

Specific for heels, this type of varnish imitates the motif of the leather lines.

Where are the varnishes applied?

– PU soles (Polyurethane)

– TR soles (Thermoplastic)

– EVA soles (Ethylene Vinyl Acetat)

– soles and inserts in TPU (Thermoplastic Polyurethane)

– rubber soles

– PVC soles (Polyvinyl Chloride)

– heels and wedges in polyester and ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)

We can also provide you with a wide range of soles and heels.

Find out Taiga International Trading company’s soles portfolio.

 

How are the varnishes applied?

There are different ways to apply varnishes on soles and heels.

Let’s see the main methods of application:

– Spray method with automatic machines

Excellent finishes and high productivity. Short drying time. This application method allows maximum personalization with low costs. You can combine different colors, create effects or, by using special matrices, create bi-colors.

– Spray manual method

Usually the manual application is used for samples and small productions, using cabin and spray gun.

– By immersion.

The article to be treated is directly immersed in a tank containing varnish.

-By pad printing

The pad printing machine prints on the soles and heels any color, fantasy and logo to give 100% personalization. The color printing allows you to get high-quality finishes and reduce production costs if the series are repeated with suitable equipment.

What can TAIGA INTERNATIONAL TRADING do for the production of your shoes, soles or heels?

– Deal of the required and personalized varnishes

We can supply you with all varnishes available on the market. We ship all over the world.

– Offer assistance and support in the use of varnishes

Depending on the type of shoes you want to produce, we evaluate which varnish is matching your necessity and suggest you best application method.

– Offer machinery and accessories for manual or automatic varnish application, including matrices and guns.

In addition to the supplying the varnish, we can provide you with machinery for manual or automatic application by using of matrices and guns.

 

Do you want to find out more technical information and recommendations regarding soles and heels varnishing process?

Write to info@taigaitalia.eu, the technical experts of Taiga International Trading are at your disposal.

And you, what methods do you use for varnishing your soles and heels?

Write it in the comments!

 

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