Coating/Laminating
Hot Topics: Adhesive Coating | Extrusion Coating | Metallizing | Curing | Drying | Green Converting | Primers | Coatings
CAI Opens Ink and Coating Plant
- Published: February 12, 2014
Company reports investments in new manufacturing and distribution facility include state-of-the-art equipment and on-site labs
AIMCAL Calls for Papers for European Conference
- Published: January 09, 2014
Association seeks papers focusing on technology for the European Web Coating & Handling Conference
Coating Matters | The 3 Stages of Product Development
- Published: January 08, 2014
Process development is taking a product concept through 3 stages: lab, pilot, and production
Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 2013
- Published: December 31, 2013
As 2013 draws to a close, we bring you our annual review of the Top 10 new products of the year
Coating Matters | Intermittent Coating
- Published: December 17, 2013
The world has gone patch coating crazy, but we also have to consider the technical challenges
Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 2
- Published: November 12, 2013
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 applied to good technology provide the best product outcomes.
AIMCAL Tech Meeting Honors Excellence
- Published: November 05, 2013
Assn. of Intl. Metallizers Coaters & Laminators names technical award winners Marcio Carvalho (Pontifica Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro) for coating & laminating and Sheila Hamilton (Teknek) for vacuum coating.
Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 1
- Published: October 16, 2013
Thinner, faster, and state of the art describes the direction hot melt adhesive manufacturing companies are headed.
Multilayer Coating
- Published: September 24, 2013
Multilayer and simultaneous dual sided coating. Slide coating for the modern era.
Coating Matters | The Wizard Behind the Curtain
- Published: September 16, 2013
It's not magic that makes curtain coating work but physics and fluid dynamics.
Rheology, Math, and Coating Equipment Design
- Published: August 31, 2013
Rheology + Mathematics = Coating Equipment Design
Coating Matters | TWOSD
- Published: August 20, 2013
Tensioned Web Over Slot Die is a coating technique that has some unique advantages
ROI for Fluid Coating Technology
- Published: July 29, 2013
Cost of ownership and return on investment are critical in the decision of fluid coating technology for a converting industry product.
Web Lines | Curl Mechanics Pt. 1—Machine Direction Curl
- Published: July 09, 2013
In this first part of a four part series on curl, web handling expert Tim Walker discusses curl in coated and laminated products
Coating Matters | Slot Die Design Considerations
- Published: July 02, 2013
What you can learn from a slot die designer that will help you in your roll-to-roll manufacturing process