Coating/Laminating
Hot Topics: Adhesive Coating | Extrusion Coating | Metallizing | Curing | Drying | Green Converting | Primers | Coatings
Defects in Coating
- Published: March 25, 2014
Fluid coating is only as good as the quality team says it is. Once the fluid hits the substrate many things can happen... Read about how to identify, analyze and remedy coating defects.
Z-Flute Boxes for Kitty Litter are Purr-fect
- Published: March 16, 2014
The Assn. of Intl. Metallizers, Coaters & Laminators (AIMCAL) awards winners of its Vacuum Metallized or Coated Products, Sustainability & Technology Competitions.
Gloucester Engineering Creates Two Divisions
- Published: March 13, 2014
A Lifetime Support Division will focus on aftermarket products and customer service, while the OEM division focuses on company’s product line
BF Consulting Is In Business
- Published: March 12, 2014
Bruce Foster brings more than 30 years of experience in adhesives, polymers, and coatings to his new consulting business
Carestream Tollcoating Expands Services
- Published: February 25, 2014
Initiatives carried out in 2013 include a new coating assessment lab, more pilot coaters, and an alliance with Polaris Battery Labs
Top Five Things To Remember in Fluid Coating
- Published: February 18, 2014
The development of coating, curing and converting for the fluid industry leads the individual process engineer in the direction of choices within boundaries. Do your operational choices allow for the future?
Coating Matters | I'm Done Coating...Now What?
- Published: February 18, 2014
To solve coating issues, you need to have a rudimentary understanding of curing technologies
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.