Coating & Laminating

Electrospray Deposition for Thin Film Composite Membrane Manufacturing Members Public

Presented by Jeffrey McCutcheon, University of Connecticut Making membranes today requires manufacturing processes that can create exceedingly thin films (less than 200 nm) that are defect free. Conventional roll-to-roll (R2R) processes cannot always achieve such thin films from a wide variety of materials. One exception is interfacial polymerization, which is

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Current Cleaning Methods for Cylinders: Pros and Cons Members Public

Presented by Jeff Paduano, Anilox Roll Cleaning Systems, Inc. Many changes have occurred over the last several years on how to best clean cylinders and rollers. This discussion will cover current challenges converters are facing in this important area, including the difficulty in removing today's unique coatings, achieving

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Coating Control – intelligent networked edge alignment for renewable energy Members Public

Presented by Mauro Consalvi, BST North America The coating process is one of the most important and most sensitive production processes in the fuel cell and battery industry. In this process step, the quality, and the production efficiency in the manufacture of a fuel cell or a battery are decided

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Breaking Boundaries: Sustainable Solutions Amidst Industry Challenges Members Public

Presented by David Zamarin, Impermea Materials Amidst industry revelations surrounding carcinogenic chemicals like PFAS, few options exist that offer sustainable, high-performance solutions to diverse industry challenges. With efforts to tackle the PFAS and Single Use Plastics crisis through proposed legislation, many manufacturers are scrambling to find performance driven fluorine-free and

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Advantages of Tungsten Carbide Slot Dies and Technical Solution Services Members Public

Presented by George Yoshida, MMC RYOTEC Corp. At first, we would like to briefly introduce about our company. The main session will be about the advantage of using our characteristic material "Tungsten Carbide" which has a great impact in the slot die coating process. Not only the product

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Advancements in Plasma-Deposited Nanocoatings: Applications and Characterization Members Public

Presented by Nicolas Vandencasteele, Plasmalex In this presentation, we’ll showcase the latest advance in industrial scale nano coating by plasma polymerization. Our discussion encompasses both vacuum and atmospheric plasma deposition methods, offering a comprehensive overview of these cutting-edge technologies. We begin with a technical introduction that explains the operating

Kevin Lifsey
2024 R2R USA

Web Cleaning Technology Members Public

Presented by Matt Fyffe, Meech International A clean, contaminant free web is becoming more and more critical in the competitive printing, coating, laminating and converting industries.  The purpose of this presentation is to look at the various types of web cleaning systems that are available today.  We will be looking

Kevin Lifsey
Conference Proceedings

Using Smart Technology to Improve Productivity on Coating and Lamination Lines Members Public

Presented by R. Duane Smith, Davis-Standard LLC Consistent unwind splicing and winder transfers are paramount to high productivity on all web substrate processing lines.  This is especially true in manufacturing high quality flexible packaging materials on extrusion coating and lamination production lines.    Industry trends are to produce ever thinner web

Kevin Lifsey
Conference Proceedings