Product (gold foil) preservation method


Gold foil, gold: gold; foil, a thin sheet of metal. Gold foil, thin slices hammered with gold. Essentially it is gold. People often say "golden branches and jade leaves" and "golden brilliance", which describe gold foil.

1. Gold foil production process

The ancient method of making gold foil is to first purify the gold, and then beat it through a thousand tempers to become a gold leaf with an area of ​​2.5 square centimeters. Make the gold leaf into foil, the area is about 40 times that of the gold leaf, and then cut it into a square.

Gold foil is made by traditional craftsmanship. Gold bars with a gold content of 99.99% are used as the main raw material. After more than ten special processes such as polyester, hammering, and foil cutting, it is golden in color, bright and soft, as light as a feather and thin. Such as cicada wings, the thickness is less than 0.12 microns.

Today's gold foil production has been integrated with modern technology, the auxiliary materials (such as black gold paper) and equipment used have been greatly improved, and the output and quality have been greatly improved.

2. Types of gold leaf

Gold foil is divided into "red gold" and "gold". Since the late Qing Dynasty, it has been called "Kujin Foil", "Su Dachi" and "Tian Chijin". The color of the "Kujin Foil" is red, the gold is the best, and the Zhang Zi is also the largest, about three inches square. "Su Dachi" is yellow in color and poor in condition. Zhang Zi is about 2 inches and 8 minutes square. The light and whitish color is called "Tian Chi Jin", and the color like gold is actually smoked with silver is called "Chosen Gold Foil".

The gold foil produced by our company is 98 gold foil (national gold foil standard) and 999 high-purity gold foil (mainly used for food, wine and medicine, etc.)

3. Characteristics of gold foil

Gold is stable in nature, never discolored, anti-oxidation, anti-moisture, anti-corrosion, anti-mildew, anti-insect bite, anti-radiation, ultra-high melting point, high temperature resistance. Gold foil made of gold also inherits these properties, so it has a wide range of uses.

4. The use of gold leaf

Gold foil has a wide range of uses, involving various fields such as Buddhism, classical gardens, advanced architecture, medicine and health care, and cultural undertakings. Among them, gold foil is the most widely used.

The 98 gold foil with a size of 9.33 x 9.33 cm is the most versatile decorative gold foil and is suitable for any decorative gold foil. Such as: hotels, temples, Buddha statues, gold signs, tile mosaics, handicrafts, etc.; can also be used to make gold foil paintings, gold foil books, gold foil stamps, etc. The high-purity thousand-foot gold leaf with a size of 4.33×4.33 cm, that is, "edible gold leaf", is mostly used for additives such as medicine, wine, cakes, cosmetics, etc., which can not only improve the quality of goods, but also benefit health and beauty.

Various foil products are now widely used all over the world. European parliaments, opera houses, churches, domes of mosques, and numerous museums and palaces all use gold foil, copper foil, and aluminum foil. , Nanjing Qixia Temple, Suzhou Hanshan Temple, as far as the China Hotel in Moscow, the Royal Palace of Thailand, the Osaka Archway in Japan, the Presidential Residence of Zaire, St. Petersburg and other world-famous buildings are all glittering with gold leaf.