FREIBURG, Germany, June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Dunmore
Europe announced today the addition of a new wide web physical
vapor deposition (PVD) metallizer at its location in Freiburg,
Germany. This recently installed
metallizer has the capabilities to vacuum metallize aluminum onto
flexible roll-to-roll substrates. The types of materials that can
be aluminum coated include PET film, LDPE film, non-woven and other
specialty flexible substrates. Prior to the expansion, the German
facility could metallize flexible materials up to 1.75 meters wide.
The new PVD metallizer has expanded this capability to 2.45 meters
wide. Dunmore Europe now has coating, laminating, and metallizing
capabilities with the same width dimensions. Customers will benefit
from processing efficiencies across all manufacturing assets.
Dunmore's customers often utilize more than one processing
technique to produce a unique material. Products often require both
metallization and a coating or lamination step to make a
multi-functional product. Until now, it was challenging to offer a
multi-functional solution at a wide width. With the new PVD
metallizer, located in Freiburg Germany, Dunmore can produce a full
product construction at a greater width. Producing materials at
2.45 meters is more efficient and opens up new markets and
applications. Applications ranging from labels, specialty
insulation materials, decorative films, and performance packing
will be well suited for Dunmore's new metallizing capabilities.
In addition to the expanded width capabilities, the PVD
metallizer has a state of the art plasma treatment system. Many
substrates are difficult to metallize. Even if it's possible to
coat a film with aluminum, there can be poor metal adhesion. The
integrated plasma system will help produce metallized film products
with greater metal to film adhesion characteristics.
According to Torsten Werthmann,
Managing Director, "With this investment, Dunmore Europe is
responding to the market trend towards wider metallized products.
As a specialized supplier we are now able to offer our customers
new product solutions and we are further strengthening our market
position. Higher processing speeds allow us to work more
efficiently. On our slitting machines we can then cut the foils to
customer specifications."
About DUNMORE
Dunmore is a global manufacturer of engineered coated and laminated
films and foils. Dunmore offers film conversion services such as
coating, metallizing and laminating along with contract film
manufacturing and custom film product development. Dunmore produces
coated film, metallized film and laminating film substrates for
aircraft, spacecraft, photovoltaic, graphic arts, insulation,
customer solutions, and specialty applications. Dunmore is a Steel
Partners company, ISO 9001:2015 and OSHA VPP Star certified. For
complete information on Dunmore's products, services, and
industries served, please visit https://www.dunmore.com.
SOURCE Dunmore