Download Audio File So what makes medical and pharmaceutical products so special? GMP. GMP stands for Good Manufacturing Practice and is the FDA's approach to insuring that converted products [...]
Download Audio File When coating optical films, should the fluid layers be coated and dried or built up via deposition? Optical films cover a wide variety of coated applications [...]
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Download Audio File From lithium-ion batteries to capacitors to solar panels, one common feature is they are all produced through a coating method. Energy storage devices describe a wide [...]
Download Audio File There are a variety of methods for encouraging fluids to stick to substrates in coating applications- corona, plasma or flame treating the substrate; adding a primer [...]
Download Audio File When there are two rolling surfaces moving in the same direction, the fluid needs to decide which surface to follow. But how is this decision made? [...]
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Download Audio File When coating a fluid, consideration of the rubbery behavior needs to be considered with the shear rate versus viscosity data. Coating rubber bands is not easy. [...]
Download Audio File Adhesives are a coating in the converting world that do not get a lot of respect. However, when you look at the market of adhesive coating, [...]
Download Audio File When looking for process, product, and profit improvements for your PSA tapes and labels, consider going back to the drawing board. Pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) coating is [...]