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, the substrate is supported by a precision backing roll and the narrow gap is set by a feeler gauge.  To [...]

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 dry lanes down web across a substrate, what is required to understand what is involved? Lane coating is the process [...]

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 didn’t spell positioned correctly.  Well, the software developers didn’t work in the coating and converting industry.  For those of us [...]

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 provided added functionality, but how do you make a coated product faster. The first hurdle is curing (typically the bottleneck [...]

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 and what tradeoffs exist? Unlike continuous coating application against a moving substrate, we are trying to develop steady state control [...]

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 three coating methods the same and what makes them different? Extrusion coating is typically non-tacky molten polymers being cast onto [...]

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 a return on investment (ROI) question with a life cycle characteristic. Purchase cost combined with operation, utilization and performance can [...]

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 some of these useful nuggets. In self-metered coating, the liquid flow can be studied as a collection of bulk flow [...]

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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 variables and cubic variables. As you can imagine, linear variables affect the coating performance some, but the cubic variables have [...]