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Particle Processing and Precision Particle Size Distribution (PSD): The First-Class Variable for Successful Battery Electrode Coating
Particle Processing and Precision Particle Size Distribution (PSD): The First-Class Variable for Successful Battery Electrode Coating In battery manufacturing the most common topics of understanding include active material chemistry, binders, solvents, and calendaring. [...]
Engineering Capability Is a System Requiring Maintenance and Support
In roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing, most companies budget for maintenance with only equipment and physical facilities in mind. This means keep the line running, keep the equipment calibrated, and replace what breaks. But there’s [...]
Patch Coating for Precision Fluid Placement
Patch Coating for Precision Fluid Placement Authors: Mark Miller, Coating Tech Slot Dies Eric R. Maki, Maki, LLC The world has gone patch coating crazy for products including batteries, pharmaceuticals, and adhesives. [...]
Is Your Roll-to-Roll Company Ready for the Exit of Experienced Workers?
An August 2025, article in US News and World Report, “US Companies Aren’t Ready for Baby Boomers to Retire,” outlines the significant amount of industry knowledge that has been and will be exiting [...]
Advantages of Dry Coating in the Battery Industry with Slot Die Coating Technology
Advantages of Dry Coating in the Battery Industry with Slot Die Coating Technology In the pursuit of higher energy density lithium-ion and next-generation batteries, the field is shifting rapidly toward thick, high-mass-loading electrodes, [...]
The 8C’s of Roll-to-Roll Coating: A Balanced Approach to Precision Coating
The 8C’s of Roll-to-Roll Coating: A Balanced Approach to Precision Coating Precision roll-to-roll coating is a complex process that requires careful consideration of multiple interrelated factors. To achieve consistent, high-quality products, it is [...]
Edge Bead Defects
Edge Bead Defects Have you heard of the common defect in slot die coating called edge bead? The defect can occur in either ambient temperature coating or hot melt adhesive coating. Let’s define [...]
Tensioned Web Over Slot Die (TWOSD) Coating – Technical Paper
DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE In standard proximity coating with slot die equipment requires that a gap is maintained between the slot die lip face and the substrate. In proximity coating, [...]
Lane Coating with Slot Die Equipment
DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE Whether coating batteries or adhesive tapes, there are reasons why coating full width is not always optimal. When an operation lends itself to coating wet and [...]
The Importance of the Positioner in Slot Die Coating
DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE INTRODUCTION The slot die coating positioner. That’s not even a real word! If you type in the word positioner, the word processing program complains that you [...]
Curtain Coating Technology
DOWNLOAD AUDIO FILE INTRODUCTION Economies of scale occur when a coated product is manufactured wide, fast and in one pass. Substrates can be manufactured wide and multilayer coating can [...]
Rigid Panel Coating with Slot Die Equipment
Download Audio File INTRODUCTION Panel coating is a unique application of fluid coating technology that provides capability and functionality to a discrete substrate. But what is important to understand [...]
Advances in Slot Die Coating Technology for Hot Melt Adhesives
Download Audio File INTRODUCTION When it comes to fluid coating onto substrates, the equipment required falls into three areas- Extrusion coating Hot melt coating Liquid coating What makes these [...]
The 6 C’s of Roll-To-Roll Coating Systems
Develop a balanced approach to precision coating by understanding these six areas of concentration. In all roll-to-roll coating systems, there are what I call the six C's. Continuous Compounding Coating Curing Converting Control The [...]
ROI of Fluid Coating Technology
Download Audio File When companies are going through the process of justifying a capital expenditure, people need to understand the full cost of ownership (COO). This is fundamentally [...]
Balancing Slot Die Design
Download Audio File Wouldn't life be great if complex things could be reduced to simple functions? In the world of coating, if you look deep enough, you can find [...]
Roller Geometry – What is Your Roller’s True Shape
How does a roller's shape influence a coated product and coating defects? The variation of a roller's geometry can produce many web handling problems. Roller geometry directly affects the way a web is handled [...]
Dispersions in Liquid Coating
Download Audio File Liquids can be described as mayonnaise or beer. The Newtonian fluids are beer - they are self-leveling and if you turn a glass of beer upside [...]
The Critical Variable – Slot Die Lip Gap
Download Audio File It's important to pay attention to critical variables in coating. When it comes to slot die setup and operation, the variables can be separated into linear [...]
Smart Glass Coating Technology
Download Audio File All modern products and equipment are getting smarter. There are internal computers tracking automotive mechanics as we drive, there are feedback loops in what [...]
Computational Methods Beyond Fluid Flow Analysis
Download Audio File Finite Element Analysis is commonly utilized in understanding, designing and manufacturing pre-metered coating equipment. But the use of FEA is not limited to understanding fluid flow. [...]
Discrete Coating Techniques and Equipment
Download Audio File In the world of coating technology, most of the time and energy is spent on coating a moving web to create roll stock of fluid-coated and [...]
Pre-Metered Fluid Flow Analysis with Computational Methods
Download Audio File As the world of liquid coating has advanced, so has the design and manufacturing of the equipment. In the world of pre-metered coating, slot die technology [...]
Vacuum Systems
Download Audio File When coating fluids thinner and thinner, you eventually run into some issues with equipment capability. The coating head can't get much closer to the backing roll [...]
Surfactants
Download Audio File In the world of liquid coating, the ability of the liquid to adhere to the substrate is not ideal. The liquid does not want to flow [...]