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Making the Most of your Pilot Line Coating Experience
Download Audio File Pilot coating lines are available in a number of locations where coated product manufacturers can run experimental trials for new products, new components, and new processes [...]
The Effects of Viscoelastic Behavior on Coating Part II
In the world of hot melt adhesive coating, the engineer or operator has to understand the fundamentals of fluid dynamics and polymer extrusion. Both phenomena play a roll in the complex world of hot [...]
Clean Coating and Fluid Preparation
Download Audio File There are a number of industries where clean coating is required - medical, pharmaceutical, optical, printed electronics and energy storage devices to name a few. There [...]
Coating Considerations for Good Manufacturing Practice
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 [...]
Optical Films Require Multiple Layers
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 [...]
Foil Substrates
Download Audio File To start with, the foils are processed prior to the coating procedure and are typically sprayed with oil. This oil needs to be removed or considered [...]
Energy Storage Devices
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 [...]
The Effects of Surface Treatment at the Interface
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 [...]
Film Split Defects
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? [...]
Looking Behind the Curtain of Coating
Download Audio File 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 provided [...]
The Effects of Viscoelastic Behavior
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. [...]
Giving Adhesive Coating its Due Respect
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, [...]
Pressure-Sensitive 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 [...]
Construction Materials for Coating Equipment
Download Audio File Coating equipment can be exposed to a variety of conditions-acidic fluids, corrosive chemicals, and abrasive slurries to name a few. So how do you identify the right [...]
Conflicting Flow in Coating
Download Audio File Coating with a self-metered system is a study of flow dynamics where we are fighting viscous forces. Depending on where the math is being applied, one [...]
Membrane Process Technologies
Download Audio File Here are a few theories to guide your decision making for achieving the thin coatings needed for filtration. Like with everything else in the coating world, membranes [...]
Porous Substrates
Download Audio File Nonwovens, fabrics, papers and membranes provide unique substrates for fluid coating applications. Depending on the final product needs, the fluid may need to be placed on [...]
Coating & Casting Technology for Water Filtration
Download Audio File The fundamentals of air entrainment, entrapment, and rheology are critical to product success. Water filtration is ubiquitous in our world. Water supplies need technological support to [...]
Coating, Casting, and Curtains
Download Audio File When a slot die is coating a fluid, does it care which way it is pointed? No, it does not. So why are different terms utilized [...]
Multi-Layer Coating II
Download Audio File If you are currently coating more than one layer of coating onto a substrate, you may want to consider the option of multi-layer coating. To provide [...]
Pump Technology
Download Audio File Fluid coating is dependent on 5 main factors to have the precision required for today's coated products: the coating head, the positioning system for the coating [...]
Stepwise Process Fluid Coating
Download Audio File After a fluid is deposited onto a substrate anything can happen. While the fluid is balancing on the substrate and traveling to the curing section of [...]
Optimization of fluid Coating
Download Audio File Developing a product in the fluid coating industries requires determination of raw materials to provide for the differentiated features of the product, but equally important is [...]
Fighting Viscous Forces to Improve Fluid Coating Success
Download Audio File When it comes to slot die fluid coating, the mathematical equations that dictate flow are fundamental, but the details are complicated. The goal with understanding the [...]
Particles in Fluid Coating
Download Audio File With the modern coating era upon us, the need to coat functional materials has grown exponentially. Whether you are looking to coat flexible electronics, solar panels, [...]