Plasmalex solutions overview
Overview
The Plasmalex group combines the Europlasma and CPI divisions and partners with sister company Spoolex. With decades of expertise in plasma science and engineering, we deliver precision, reliability, and efficiency to a wide range of sectors. We offer a wide range of customized solutions that cater to the unique needs of industries.
Plasmalex delivers both chemistries and equipment for surface treatment on an industrial scale.
Plasmalex offers practical solutions for:
01
Water-repellent PFAS-free nanocoatings (PECVD)
We offer cutting-edge solutions for creating water-repellent, PFAS-free nanocoatings using Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD). Our advanced PECVD technology enables the creation of high-performance coatings that provide superior water resistance. Water-repellent and splash-proof coatings are designed to create a surface that repels water (hydrophobicity) by preventing water droplets from adhering to or penetrating the surface. These coatings are typically used in applications where water contact is occasional or light e.g., electronics and semiconductor components, textiles, automotive and Aerospace, Medical devices, and Building materials.
Why Us?
- We have deep expertise in PECVD technology and can customize our nanocoating solutions to meet the specific needs of your industry.
- Speciality in Batch units
- No one can beat us in Roll-to-roll units
- We can offer job coating services as well as plasma coating machine sales with on-site support
- We have PFAS-free coatings.
- All our plasma-enhanced nanocoatings are solvent-free, Ultra-thin (from 10nm up to 1µm), very conformal, having bonding on the surface.
02
Conformal barrier coatings
Conformal barrier coatings act as a barrier providing exceptional protection against gases, moisture, chemicals, and other environmental contaminants.
At Plasmalex, we specialize in conformal barrier coatings that provide enhanced protection for your components and products. We use advanced technologies such as Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) and other cutting-edge methods to deliver high-quality, thin, uniform coatings that conform to the intricate shapes and surfaces of your materials.
There are four categories of conformal barrier coatings
- Nanocoatings (PECVD)
- Parylene
- Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
- Multilayer
Why Us?
- We utilize the latest PECVD and coating techniques to deliver high-performance, conformal coatings that provide superior protection for your components.
- The combination of product offerings from Europlasma and COAT-X together gives us the ability to make the right and optimal choice of coating type.
- We have the world’s tightest multilayer coatings for implantable (medical) devices
- Having a variety of Full and in-house lab and production equipment
- We deliver coatings that not only meet but exceed industry standards for durability, efficiency, and reliability.
03
Plasma surface functionalization
Our Plasma surface functionalization process adds functional chemical groups to the surface, enhances adhesion, wettability, and other surface properties, and prepares materials for subsequent coatings, bonding, or treatments.
Three subcategories for plasma surface functionalization can be distinguished:
- In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD)
- Fine cleaning
- Etching
Why Us?
- With extensive experience in plasma technology, we deliver precise and reliable surface functionalization for a wide range of materials and industries.
- Installed base of several hundreds of machines worldwide
- We use a vast array of surface treatment technology allowing us to optimize treatment parameters depending on the material and customer requirements
04
Polymer film treatment solutions
Plasma polymerization uses plasma to polymerize monomers on the surface of material. The atmospheric plasma process deposits polymer films (nano plasma coatings) onto substrates under atmospheric pressure, creating tailored functional surfaces. Our Plasma treatment improves adhesion, hydrophobicity, biocompatibility, and chemical resistance without altering the substrate’s bulk properties. Our advanced plasma treatment and surface modification technologies enable you to improve properties such as adhesion, barrier resistance, wettability, and more, providing you with a competitive edge in various industries including packaging, electronics, medical devices, and automotive.
We specialize in three categories.
- Adhesion enhancement
- Release liner solutions
Anti-drip coatings
Why Us?
- Patented 2-meter-wide plasma reactor allowing to application of a 1 to 10 nm coating with excellent uniformity over the width and the length of polymer films. Our plasma-enhanced nanocoatings have some clear USP’s compared to competing plasma coating technologies:
- No solvents are needed, the 100% dry coating process
- Ultra-thin but very strong adherence of the coating to the surface (covalent bandings), making the coated material 100% re-usable
- The base material (polymer film) is 100% recyclable
- For liner applications, our coatings do not contaminate the substrate with silicone traces.
- A vast array of surface treatment recipes allows the optimization of treatment parameters depending on the material and customer requirements.
- Machines are turnkey and are engineered fully within the Plasmalex group.
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.
