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Carestream Tollcoating
Expands Pilot Coating Capabilities To Improve Time-to-Market, Reduce Costs
MEDFORD, Ore, Jan. 4 – Carestream Tollcoating,
a premier provider of contract coating services specializing in the application
of aqueous and solvent coatings on flexible substrates, announced the expansion
of laboratory and pilot scale capabilities.
This latest expansion is designed to improve the product and process
development experience for customers in the display, battery component,
membrane, medical devices, nanotechnology, imaging products and other advanced
material markets.
Carestream Tollcoating’s upgraded capabilities and services
across four research and manufacturing facilities in
At the lab scale, Carestream Tollcoating utilized its
decades of advanced coating experience to design and construct new coating
equipment and add several new rheological, thermal, and physical property
measurement capabilities. At the pilot scale, new capabilities include in-line
web cleaning, improved corona discharge treatment, UV curing (including a
temperature-controlled backing roll), higher precision steering and conveyance,
and lamination. In addition, Carestream Tollcoating has added new and improved pilot
coating methods to the long list of solution application techniques already
employed. The combination of lab-scale coating and testing equipment upgrades
and enhanced pilot-scale capabilities enables a broader range of
process-product development work and targeted experiment design to optimize
product performance and manufacturing cost.
“Working at the process development level, manufacturers can
not only understand how particular materials will coat, but can establish the
more sophisticated quality and process elements that are most important to
development,” said Rick Daniels, General Manager of Carestream Advanced
Materials and Tollcoating. “OEMs require a streamlined approach to process
development, and bringing the advanced testing and quality measures to the
pilot level helps reduce the time and cost of eventual product development and
production.”
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About Carestream Tollcoating
Carestream Tollcoating offers
contract coating services specializing in the application of aqueous and
solvent coatings on flexible substrates for display component, battery component,
membrane, medical devices, nanotechnology imaging products and other advanced
materials. Carestream Tollcoating’s professional staff of engineers builds on more
than 100 years of coating leadership to deliver a wealth of knowledge and
problem-solving expertise in precision coating applications, fluid design and preparation,
converting, and packaging. State-of-the-art pilot coaters also make Carestream
Tollcoating an ideal partner for product development, scale-up and small volume
products. For additional information on the company, please visit http://www.tollcoating.com.
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