Coatema opens new technical center

The center was presented to coincide with the company’s annual symposium, this year focused on the latest advancements in roll-to-roll coating processes and on the expectable gain in coating quality and efficiency by integration of reliable in-line metrology. More than a dozen speakers and experts contributed with talks on their latest scientific work and experiences, among them experts from Fraunhofer IWS, Heraeus, Henkel and FRT.

Coatema presented a range of coating machines, from those for laboratory environments to full production lines. Three coating and printing products were presented, including: a full production line, equipped with automated turret winder; the mid-scale flexible Click-and-Coat unit, including a register control camera and spatially-resolved inline thin film thickness metrology; and the lab-scale Smartcoater, demonstrating onsite a live coating of silver ink for electronic printing applications, including an ultra-fast UV cross-linking dryer and an in-line flashlight sintering system.