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Defects in Coating

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

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

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

Bruce Foster brings more than 30 years of experience in adhesives, polymers, and coatings to his new consulting business

Carestream Tollcoating Expands Services

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

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?

To solve coating issues, you need to have a rudimentary understanding of curing technologies

CAI Opens Ink and Coating Plant

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

Association seeks papers focusing on technology for the European Web Coating & Handling Conference

Coating Matters | The 3 Stages of Product Development

Process development is taking a product concept through 3 stages: lab, pilot, and production

Readers Choice | Top 10 New Products of 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

The world has gone patch coating crazy, but we also have to consider the technical challenges

Coating Matters | Hot Melt Coating Technology, Part 2

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

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

Thinner, faster, and state of the art describes the direction hot melt adhesive manufacturing companies are headed.

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