Plasmatreat will be staging its latest plasma systems and developments for the environmentally friendly pretreatment of material surfaces. Furthermore the company will also demonstrate its Openair plasma technology live throughout the entire K. On their joint 160m² exhibition stand, Plasmatreat and its system partner and foam technology specialist CeraCon will use a new out-of-the-box robotic cell to demonstrate how a strong bond can be achieved between nonpolar polypropylene (PP)c and 1-K polyurethane (PU) foam simply with the aid of plasma. In addition, atmospheric plasma treatments followed by subsequent coating and bonding applications will be conducted manually throughout each day in a dedicated "plasma demo corner".
This year Plasmatreat will focus on five particular fields of application: the latest Openair plasma system has been designed to pretreat EPDM profiles of varying size in a fully automated production process. Prior to digital printing or coating, large panels or lightweight boards can now be pretreated using the world's first 180cm-wide atmospheric plasma system. The high contour precision treatment of geometrically complex headlamp housings will be used to demonstrate how the fully automated, integrated surface analysis tool delivers surface treatment results during the plasma process. "Plasma & Powder" will highlight the environmentally friendly and rapid fine powder coating (FPC) plasma process for creating functional plastic metalised surfaces. The company will also be introducing for the first time at a German trade show a product range which uses low-pressure plasma technology to modify and functionalise polymer surfaces. Aurora was developed jointly with 4th State, USA and has been marketed in North America for the past two years.
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The plasma Openair process selectively cleans and simultaneously activates the plastic surface in a single operation (photo: Plasmatreat)
