Plasma Treating Customer Stories

Atmospheric plasma surface treaters are used in virtually every industry that processes plastics, rubbers, and elastomers. From medical and automotive, to folding cartons, wire and assembly operating plasma treaters are used to promote adhesion prior to printing, bonding, decorating and painting. On this page you’ll find our customers review their experiences with atmospheric plasma technology.

• Plasma and Flame Surface Treating Enable Automotive Adhesive Bonds Automotive
  Adhesion
• Plasma Treater Improves Ink Jet Printing Throughput Industrial
  Printing
• Atmospheric Plasma Treater increases Folder Gluer Production Folding Carton
  Adhesive
• Plasma Treating Tubes Ensures Ink Adhesion and Increases Production Efficiency Packaging
  Printing
• Robotic Plasma Treatment for Headlamp Adhesion Automotive
  Adhesion
• Plasma Treatment Improves Print Durability on Nexans’ Wire Wire & Cable
  Printing

All Plasma Treating Stories

Adhesion & Bonding

• Flame Treater Cures Downtime Eliminates Poor Ink Adhesion  [Preview]

  Find out how Enercon's flame treaters are improving print adhesion for pharmaceutical cap manufacturer, Centor , while dramatically decreasing decrease in downtime.

• Sauder Manufacturing Ensures Adhesion Consistency with Corona, Plasma & Flame Surface Treating  [Preview]

  Surface treaters are implemented in line with existing processes. They are designed to clean, micro etch and functionalize surfaces to promote adhesion. Over the years, Sauder has learned a great deal about surface treating and in their facility today you will find Enercon corona, plasma and flame technologies.

• Champion Plastics Adds Enercon Plasma Surface Treater & Helps GM Increase Fuel Efficiency  [Preview]

  This remarkable project enabled Champion Plastics to improve operational efficiency and quality, optimize employee utilization and safety and significantly reduce operational costs.

Automotive

• Robotic Plasma Treatment for Headlamp Adhesion  [Preview]

  Hella Australia Pty Ltd designs and manufactures automotive lighting equipment, plastic moldings and accessories for the most sophisticated new cars in the world. Throughout their facility is state-of-the-art technology used to supply interior and exterior lighting including: headlamps, reflectors, lenses, and auxiliary lamps.

• Flame Treater Improves Automotive Leather Adhesion  [Preview]

  Find out how Eissmann Automotive uses robotic flame-treating cells to enhance the adhesion of interior leather components for popular premium vehicles.

• Plasma and Flame Surface Treating Enable Automotive Adhesive Bonds  [Preview]

  TA Systems of Rochester Hills, Michigan, specializes in engineering custom automation solutions for the automotive industry. Their customers rely on them to integrate multiple technologies and processes into efficient manufacturing cells. Recently, there has been an increase in requirements for integrated in-line surface treating to improve adhesive bonding on a variety of plastics.

Industrial Printing

• Plasma Treater Improves Ink Jet Printing Throughput  [Preview]

   Learn how Wago uses Enercon's Blown Ion Series  to prepare plastic surfaces for printing.

Folding Cartons

• Atmospheric Plasma Treater increases Folder Gluer Production  [Preview]

  Learn how Green Bay Packaging's Folding Carton Division (De Pere, WI) installation of a new atmospheric plasma surface treater improved product quality, increased productivity and reduced production costs.

• Folding Carton Manufacturer Eliminates Solvent Adhesive  [Preview]

  Eco-conscious carton maker Evergo Packaging found a way to switch from solvent- to water-based adhesives. Learn how Evergo increased overall productivity with Enercon's Dyne-A-Mite IT.

Medical

• Custom Wire Tech partners with K-Kolor for mission critical printing on custom Medical Devices  [Preview]

  The power of surface treating has made an impression on Boldig. "I'm really impressed with the improvement in adhesion these compact systems provide. In fact, we tested the system for a few other applications in our facility."

• Surface treatment improves print adhesion for leading dental product manufacturer  [Preview]

  In this case, toothbrushes purchased from China were to be converted in the Ranir LLC's Grand Rapids Michigan plant. The polypropylene toothbrushes resist ink adhesion so the Ranir engineering team set-out to specify an integrated...

Packaging

• Ink jet printing on HDPE and PET improves with Plasma Surface Treating  [Preview]

  Find out how Best Formulations uses blown ion treatment for adhesion on ink jet printing on HDPE and PET.

• Plasma Treating Tubes Ensures Ink Adhesion and Increases Production Efficiency  [Preview]

  Plastube, a Canadian manufacturer, offers a variety of decorative tubes for many industries. After trying different types of treatments to solve various issues, Plastube found a final solution with Enercon. Learn more about why Martin Lépine, Platube’s Plant Engineering Manager, added seven plasma treaters to their operation.

• Enercon Plasma Treater is a Game Changer for Biovation Labs’ FDA - Approved Packaging  [Preview]

  Find out how Best Formulations uses blown ion treatment for adhesion on ink jet printing on HDPE and PET.

Potting

• Solving Potting and Assembly Adhesion Challenges
  with Custom Solutions  [Preview]

  Mertek recently partnered with Enercon on a project involving a plastic pool filter. The bond between an epoxy potting adhesive was failing and allowing water to pass through...

Wire & Cable

• Plasma Treatment Improves Print Durability on Nexans’ Wire  [Preview]

  Find out how Nexans used plasma treatment on their extruded wire to improve ink jet print adhesion.

• Plasma Replaces Propane Torch to Improve Print Adhesion on PE Pipes  [Preview]

  As one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of piping in Canada, CB Supplies is continuously looking for new technologies to improve efficiencies and support environmental conservation. Their recent investment in Enercon in-line Plasma Treaters to enable inkjet printing on various polymers has reduced labor and operating costs while improving throughput.

For some applications flame surface treatment is the best technology for the application.