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Slot Die Coating Technology
Download Audio File Slot die coating technology is a function of the coating process, auxiliary system and fundamental technique. The decision to utilize a coating technology needs to be [...]
Everything you Wanted to Know About Coating but Were Afraid to Ask
Download Audio File Fluid coating is a world of science and art. Some things we know well, and some things have yet to be proven, and many things have [...]
Interfacial Dynamics
Download Audio File When describing fluid flow onto substrates to people not living in the world of converting operations is like trying to explain rocket science to a pig. Very [...]
Stop Defects Before They Start
Download Audio File One of the best ways to not have defects in fluid coating isn't a trick with a pump or a tip with a coating head. Reducing [...]
Streak Formation
Download Audio File Streak defects are one of the most common coating defects in roll-to-roll coating. They are also very elusive! How streaks are formed and progress is a [...]
Agglomerates
Download Audio File Agglomeration is a dispersion issue that can cause headaches for coating operators. Fundamentally, an agglomerate is a collection of particles that stick together and create a larger [...]
Designing Equipment for Fluid Flow
Download Audio File In premetered coating, a slot die is the control valve that turns fluid flow through a pipe into a precise, flat, and even coating on a [...]
Defects in Coating
Download Audio File Fluid coating is only as good as the quality team says it is. Once the fluid hits the substrate many things can happen - the substrate [...]
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 [...]
Hot Melt Coating Technology Part 1
Download Audio File As coating corporations work toward increasing margins, getting more out of the capital at the site, improving turns in inventory, and reducing environmental impact, they are [...]
Multilayer Coating
Download Audio File What do you do when you want to have more than one functional layer on a given substrate? Oh yeah, and you want to lay each [...]
The Wizard Behind the Curtain
Download Audio File Do you sometimes feel like you are free falling through the coating world? A free fall can be a good thing if you are not spinning [...]
Rheology, Math and Coating Equipment Design
Download Audio File Rheology again? The science of rheology is critical in so much that goes into fluid coating that we could spend a lifetime discussing the details regarding [...]
TWOSD
Download Audio File What?!? Don't you love acronyms? I personally get along with TLAs (three-letter acronyms), but FLAs? It is a bit much. TWOSD, or Tensioned Web Over Slot Die, [...]
Slot Die Design Considerations
Download Audio File It's always good to have a perspective from all areas of a business. In the world of manufacturing, an engineer learns a lot by getting out [...]
What Does a Slot Die Cost?
Download Audio File With every call a technical consultant receives regarding a technical inquiry, comes another call asking what the price of equipment is. Whether it is a slot [...]