Plasmalex solutions overview
Plasmalex offers turnkey solutions for:
- Cleaning: removal of molecular contamination layers from a surface.
- Etching: removal of surface material up to 1 µm.
- Activation: chemical modification of surface prior to gluing, painting or bonding.
- Coating: advanced single or multi-layer coatings through chemical modification of surface properties.
Read more about the benefits of plasma in our blog.
Plasmalex’ treatment solutions enable the modification of surface characteristics at a microscopic (nanoscale) level to clean, etch, activate, and coat materials. Surface treatment is used in various industries, such as medical and life sciences, electronics, filtration…
Plasmalex delivers both chemistries and equipment for surface treatment on an industrial scale.
You can easily find the overview of our chemistries and equipment
Industrial plasma solutions
For industrial plasma systems, two techniques are relevant: Vacuum or low pressure plasma treatment, and Atmospheric plasma treatment.
Since 1993, the Europlasma division focuses on turnkey low pressure or vacuum plasma solutions.
The CPI division provides turn-key solutions for roll-to-roll (web) atmospheric cold plasma machines through its patented designs.
Read more about the benefits of plasma keyword in our blog.
1. Roll-to-roll (reel-to-reel) atmospheric plasma applications
At our company we have an extensive portfolio for atmospheric plasma with up to 89 interconnected plasma parameters to control (classically 20-40). Read all about the process.
CPI is able to treat most flexible substrates: films, fabric (woven or not), conductive and insulating.
We know that every material and application are unique. This is why our team of chemists, engineers and physicists specifically adapts the treatment process parameters for each customer and material–application combination to ensure the most effective treatment every time.
Our highly efficient technology allows CPI to treat even the most difficult or delicate materials such as PTFE, PLA, PEEK, … You can find more information on our applications, click here.
Read more about plasma for roll-to-roll or reel-to-reel.
Depending on the chemistry, different types of processes are performed.
CPI offers two kinds of treatment: grafting or coating.
Each treatment has a different process.
Atmospheric plasma systems are reliable and have a good operational equipment efficiency.
2. Wide vacuum plasma portfolio
Our company Europlasma is specialized in vacuum (low pressure) plasma. Throughout its 30 years of experience a wide portfolio of coatings has been developed. Each with unique characteristics. Together we adapt our solutions to your specific needs.
Advanced parylene and multi-layer conformal coatings
For the full overview of our advanced parylene and multilayer solutions, visit the COAT-X website.
Equipment for surface treatment
Plasmalex delivers both chemistries and equipment for surface treatment on an industrial scale.
Plasmalex has a full range of equipment.
Our integrated production lines include:
- automatic loading and unloading
- turret slitter/rewinders
1. Atmospheric plasma roll-to-roll
From 60 cm up to 200 cm width
Reel diameters up to 800 mm (1000 kg)
2. Vacuum plasma roll-to-roll
From 10 cm up to 180 cm width
Roll diameters up to 80 cm
Read here the leaflet on the Plasmalex Roll-to-roll offering.
3. Vacuum plasma batch units
From 30x30x30 cm up to 100x150x65 cm of chamber volume
CD 300
CD 1836
Plasmaguard
Advanced parylene and multi-layer coating equipment
Find the full overview on the Coat-X website
In partnership with our sister company Spoolex, we can provide integrated production lines that are fully turnkey.
Job Coating
Thanks to our very extensive machine park that we can use at the same time for laboratory tests as well as industrial scale trials, we also offer all possible surface treatments in the form of job coatings.
Together with you we look for the best possible solution for your application and can offer flexible job coating services.
Short overview of our test job and job coating capacities:
- 6 atmospheric plasma stations for industrial size testing and job coating
- Web width from 200 to 2.000 mm
- Web speed up to 500 m/min
- Class 1000 clean room
Quality control:
- Calibrated inks (surface energy)
- Contact angle (wettability & surface energy)
- Peel force measurements
Why Plasmalex ?
Plasmalex has industrial-scale test and job coating capacities
- With a full range of industrial scale test PECVD equipment for both static and well as roll-to-roll in both France and Belgium
- Multi-stage coating technology
- We can test any kind of substrate either on a small as well as on a large scale
- To define the optimal process parameters for each application,
- And to gradually upscale volumes
- Plasmalex has an extensive track record of customized solutions
Unique R&D capabilities
- The most advanced technology in the world for industrial size reel to reel atmospheric plasma applications:
- Patented electrode/gas diffusor assembly
- Control of the chemistry
- Homogeneous ultra-thin coating (1-10 nm) over 2m width
- Reduced electrode fouling
- No contamination of product by plasma generated powders
- Multi-zone treatment in one pass
- Patented electrode/gas diffusor assembly
- Continuous Research on the interaction of the different process parameters
- Up to 89 interconnected plasma parameters to control (classically 20-40)
- Continuous process control results in guaranteed and stable treatment quality
- Continuous Research on various generator technologies
- Testing and use of different technologies to select the optimal technology for each application
- Focus on chemistry in the plasma as a sustainable answer to the traditional wet chemistry solutions
- Extensive track record of customized solutions
Plasmalex has an extensive IP portfolio and various partnerships
The continuous increase of our patent portfolio as a key focus is resulting in 44 active patents to protect machine design, processes as well as methods for plasma deposition
At the moment we run 2 active EU-supported innovative projects with international partners
Recently Plasmalex signed a preferred partnership with Specialty Coating Systems (SCS), a global leader in conformal coating services and technologies, to expand their coating portfolio to include PlasmaGuard™ coating services.
