1st of March 2010

The Printed Electronics in 2010 is one of the World’s largest events on printed and organic electronics. Coatema Coating Machinery - one of the pioneers in these fields with installations at VTT, Holst Centre, IPMS Dresden, IAP Potsdam and several other leading R&D institutions worldwide - is going to present a new development for small-scale, cost-efficient and multifunctional R&D roll to roll equipment.



The new unit called Smartcoater includes different options of coating and printing systems, like doctor blade, slot die, impregnation, micro roller and engraved roller printing and a laminating device. With a working width of 100 mm the ink consumption can be minimized for the R&D process. Further the Coatema Smartcoater is equipped with a 350 mm hot air dryer in EEx-layout. A laminating station provides the possibility to include encapsulation processes in the operation. Reproducibility is possible without any compromises. The multifunctional unit is equipped with 3-4 motors, load cells and a backward running operation mode. Those features make small sample production an easy operation. The whole unit is enclosed and can also be offered for glove box operations. The Smartcoater is released for publication at the Printed Electronic in Dresden. There Coatema´s Smartcoater will be shown for the first time. 



As Dr. Andreas Giessmann - owner of Coatema Coating Machinery - stated “this will be only one highlight of new equipment in 2010”, Coatema is ramping up a new range of lab and pilot coaters this year to support the ongoing success of the lab solutions programme of Coatema.



All units can be tested and rented for coating and printing trials in the Coatema R&D centre - with 11 pilot coaters and one production line one of the biggest centres worldwide.



The scale-up specialists at Coatema are looking forward to meet you at an exciting exhibition in Dresden. Do not miss the opportunity to meet us to discuss your coating, printing and laminating projects in the field of printed electronics.



About Coatema:

The company Coatema Coating Machinery deals with the mechanical engineering for coating, laminating and printing plants for R2R applications.

For more than 30 years now, Coatema has been developing solutions for the most different markets like textile, foil, paper and renewable energies. This can be lab plants, pilot plants as well as entire turn-key production solutions for the coating and laminating of R2R substrates.

One area of Coatema, the R&D Solutions, deals with the service for coating and laminating like e.g. Coatema´s coating lab with more than 10 pilot plants and on production plant with a working with of 2.000 mm. An annual international coating symposium completes Coatema´s large range of services.

Another of Coatema´s specialties is the special mechanical engineering for scale-up processes in the area of new technologies, like e.g. fuel cells or nano technologies.