Traction and release coating for rolls

Need a roll that grips the web but doesn’t pick up glue, coating or dust? AEGIS Advanced has one. AEGIS Advanced is an industrial coating applicator in Elkton, Maryland, and XR100TC is our traction and release coating for winder and traction rollers. It holds the sheet and lets go of everything else.

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An AEGIS coated roll running on a production line.

Why both at once is hard: grip usually comes from a rough surface, and rough surfaces trap things. Release usually comes from a smooth, slick surface, and slick surfaces slip. XR100TC gets both by building fluoropolymer into a coarse tungsten carbide surface.

Stuck waiting on your OEM for a recoat? We recoat converter traction and winder rolls with XR100TC, spec in a day and quote in three. See our OEM recoating alternative.

Converter leave-behind: XR100TC vs. a typical OEM recoat, the roll-by-roll coating guide and how a one-roll trial works. Download the XR100TC PDF.

Where it fits

Winder drums, bedrolls, rider and lay-on rolls, and traction rollers anywhere the roll has to drive or hold the web while it’s around adhesives, coatings, hot melt, lint or dust. That includes tissue and towel, label and tape, flexible packaging, board and specialty paper.

What release looks like

Buildup is what kills grip. Here’s a roll on a textile line before and after one of our XR release coatings. The same release chemistry is built into XR100TC.

What release does: a roll on a textile line before and after our Fluor-XR coating.

Proven on a bath tissue line. In a trial at a tissue converter in Virginia, XR100TC traction and release outperformed the incumbent traction coating, and we turned the rolls around faster.

What you get

The roll keeps its grip longer because it doesn’t fill up. Less cleaning and fewer stops. Tungsten carbide wear life. And one surface instead of trading off between a traction roll that loads up and a release roll that slips.

What it’s not

If a roll only needs release, like a glue roll, an idler on an adhesive-coated web or a nip roll, a straight release coating is usually the better choice. That’s our XR100T, PTFE or XR200 silicone. See extreme release coatings. XR100TC is for rolls that have to grip.

Knurled rolls

We also put release coatings on knurled rollers, so the knurl grips without loading up.

Common questions

Is this the same as XR100T?

No. XR100T is our standard release coating for paper machines and other industries. XR100TC is the traction coating, with release built in.

Shop or on site?

Both, on any size roll.

Are you ISO 9001 certified?

Yes, for over three years, recertified in 2026.

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