San Diego, California Headquarters, USA
In San Diego, Bekaert Specialty Films manufactures in two buildings of approximately 150K square feet each. The manufacturing process features a world class, environmentally friendly emission control system. Manufacturing takes place in temperature & humidity controlled clean rooms, class 1000 to class 10,000 with positive air pressure.
Vacuum Sputtering
Met-5: Wide width high speed metallic sputtering (up to 800 FPM)
- Coating width: 74” (1.9m)
- Single chamber (dual drum) with 6 rotatable cathodes
NV-2: high speed production of multi-layer and complex optical coatings
- Versatile: Dual chambers and multi-cathode
- Coating width: 54” (1.4m)
- 2 chambers with 6 planar cathodes
- AC or DC sputtering
Coating and Laminating:
Process
- Solvent, aqueous, or UV
- Viscosity: 1 to 5000 cps
- Coating thickness: 0.025 µ - 2 mils (50 µ)
- Oven temperature: up to 300F
- Coating methods: slot die, rod coating, and Bekaert proprietary
- On-line thickness measurement: beta
- Digital camera inspection/logging roll maps
- Process data logging
- Corona treatment
Typical Coatings
- Pressure sensitive adhesive coatings
- Conductive coatings
- Lamination adhesives
- Primer coatings
- Printable coatings
- Anti-scratch hard coats
- Coating Width 74”
- Two coating stations: slot die, rod coating, & Bekaert proprietary
- UV or solvent chemistry
- Dryers (up to 300 F):90’ (3 zones, idler), & 24’ (2 zones, floatation)
- Class 10,000 room & class 1000 dryer
- Coating Line Width 62”
- Rod coating & Bekaert proprietary
- Solvent
- Dryer (up to 250 F): 60’ (3 zones)
- Coating Line Width 62”
- Rod coating & Bekaert proprietary
- UV & solvent
- Dryer (up to 235 F): 30’ (2 zones)
Class 10,000 Clean room Slitting
Incoming Roll
- Up to 74”
- 3”, 6” & 10” paper core
Finished Roll
- Roll width: down to 3”
- 3”, 6” & 10” plastic & paper core
Standard, plain box or custom packaging