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 from? What can it do to a perfectly good coating? How do you get rid of it? Now there is [...]

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 housed in the pre-metered enclosure presented by slot die technology. The ability to feed, distribute, and apply a liquid directly [...]

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 coating technology and web handling, if you don't have at least a rudimentary understanding of curing technologies, you will not [...]

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. So what should a maintenance manager do? Taking a slot die as an example, I would like to walk through [...]

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 is not whether you can move between these layers of process development for a given product, but how accurate will [...]

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 the coating station is very high. With this increased interest in intermittent coating, we also have to consider the technical [...]

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 of the fluid. Within the world of coating, it is common to have a solid suspended in a liquid - [...]

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 applied to good technology provide the best product outcomes. TECHNOLOGY AND TECHNIQUE So how does a modern hot melt coater [...]

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 ground are still the same. You still have to balance the books; you still have to market a product; the [...]

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 where the defect originated was not known. This leads the process and product team down different paths of experimentation and [...]