Saralon’s New Set of Saral Inks is Perfect for Developing Touch Panels in Applications like Automotive and Home Appliances

26 August 2025: Saralon has unveiled a complete new set of Saral Inks© specifically designed to print flexible membrane switches that can bend and stretch. This innovative Saral Inks Set is perfect for developing touch panels in applications like automotive and home appliances, especially on curved and complex surfaces. The new stretchable ink set for membrane switches includes:
– Saral StretchSilver 100 – over 300% stretchability with very good sheet resistance.
– Saral StretchCarbon 200 – specifically designed for TPU and other bendable plastics.
– Saral StretchUVDielectric 100 – stretchable dielectric ink for protecting the conducting layers. All of these inks work perfectly together and can be easily printed on top of each other without any issues.

Saralon also provides ink solutions for printed, flexible heating applications. If you are designing heaters for curved, soft, or stretchable surfaces, their developed ink set for stretchable surface heating has created a lot of buzz.

Saral StretchHeater Inks, have made it easy and efficient to integrate surface heaters into functional components that undergo bending, twisting, or stretching to fit complex geometries, like heated blankets and smart bed components used in hospitals.

This ink set is everything you need to take your first step into the next generation of printed thermal systems.

Saralon also offers sensor inks for printed electronics automotive applications.
Printed sensors are increasingly used in the automotive sector, offering enhanced functions including EV battery management, occupancy and movement detection, seat belt monitoring, shock, temperature and humidity sensing.

Screen printable Sensor Saral Inks for Fully Printed Sensors include:
– Saral PressureSensor 300
– Saral TemperatureSensor 100
– Saral HumiditySensor 400

With Printed Electronics it becomes possible to easily integrate sensors on ultra-thin flexible substrates and distribute multiple sensors seamlessly into different auto parts like seat fabric and battery units.

Kunal Enterprises: Saralon’s Official Representative in India
Kunal Gandhi, Joint Managing Director, Kunal Enterprises, says, “Saralon is managed by a highly experienced team who are experts in material science, advanced electronic technologies and management of growing businesses. Apart from management, Saralon is unique in its team composition. The team is multi-disciplinary in which experts from complementary fields – printing, electronics, chemistry & business administration – are working together with a common and ambitious goal, which makes it an ideal brand for us to partner with. Kunal Enterprise is a leading solution provider in Printing/ Packaging Industry, specifically in the Screen Printing genre in India since 2001. We serve customers across India with best in class products and technology from across the globe.

The Vision …. Transforming Printing Companies into Electronic Manufacturers
Although Printed Electronics is known in the scientific community for the last two decades, only a handful of products have been introduced into the market. That means, we are still scratching just on the surface of this emerging technology. The technology has huge market potential and can affect each and every aspect of our daily lives. But in order to harness its full potential, traditional color printing companies must also be involved. In another words, printing companies must become capable to produce Printed Electronics by using their existing printing machines. The goal is challenging and requires mountainous amounts of efforts by the experts of Printed Electronics. Saralon has accepted this challenge of transforming traditional color printing companies into Printed Electronics production facilities. In the future we are going to be surrounded by a huge number of electronics. This is going to happen because we will use large numbers of smart and active objects e.g., interactive package, communicating books, IoT and many more. These objects will require electronics, which must be sustainable as well as cost effective. Currently, electronics are produced at centralized locations and in clean room environments. Saralon aims to transform this centralized production of electronics into a localized production. Localized production means a local printing company produces sustainable electronics for local demands. There are millions of printing companies all over the world and they are well-equipped with sophisticated high-speed printing machines. Apart from printing color materials, they can also print simple electronic devices. What they need for that are inks and process know-hows. Saralon provides these two to them to make them a local producer of electronics. Saralon was founded with this ambitious vision in 2015. The seed of Saralon comes from Prof. A. C. Hübler’s group at the Chemnitz University of Technology.

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kunalgandhi@kunalenterprise.com