Under Pressure: The Damage Stress Can Do in Fluid Coating
Download Audio File Stress is bad. Really bad! And I'm not talking about in your personal life. I'm talking about stress-induced defects in fluid coating. Where does stress come [...]
Top Five Things to Remember in Fluid Coating
Download Audio File 1. Evolution: Liquid coating has come a long way from painting by hand to coating with rolls to pre-metering fluid. The future of fluid coating is [...]
I’m Done Coating…Now What?
Download Audio File I am not a curing expert. Now that we have that out of the way, I would like to discuss why curing is important. Just like [...]
Slot Dies Dos and Don’ts
Download Audio File We have seen it numerous times-equipment is mishandled and damaged unnecessarily. While these nicks and dings can add up to expensive maintenance costs, they are avoidable. [...]
The Three Stages of Product Development
Download Audio File Process development is taking a product concept through three stages of development: lab scale pilot scale production scale In the world of fluid coating, the question [...]
Intermittent Coating
Download Audio File The world has gone patch coating crazy! Batteries, pharmaceuticals, even adhesives. The interest in reducing waste and providing functional coating that can be used right off [...]
Dispersions Revisited
Download Audio File To understand the forces involved in developing a stable coating on a substrate, key features of the coating need to be viewed from the internal perspective [...]
Hot Melt Coating Technology Part 2
Download Audio File In the second of this two-part series on hot melt coating, Mark Miller says the newest technology is not always the best, but the best techniques [...]
How to Start-up a Coating Business
Download Audio File The coating and converting industry may not be as sexy as the dot-com world of Silicon Valley, but the fundamentals of getting a business off the [...]
Visualization for Improved Coating Performance
Download Audio File On many coating projects that I have been involved in, the coating defect that the team was trying to eliminate was apparent on the web, but [...]