Plasma and Flame Surface Treating Enable Automotive Adhesive Bonds

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. While at…

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Flame Treater Improves Automotive Leather Adhesion

Robotic flame-treating cells at Eissmann Automotive enhance interior leather components of popular premium vehicles. While sports cars and high performance vehicles turn heads as they breeze down the street, the real thrill is to be behind the wheel, in the cockpit, feeling the car respond to a subtle turn or touch of the accelerator. For…

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Get Your Free Ebook: Getting Started with Plasma Surface Treatment

This free interactive eBook details all the basic knowledge you need to get started with plasma treatment. It’s filled with animations, illustrations, photos, videos, and technical information to help you gain a better understanding of atmospheric plasma’s capabilities. See what Enercon customers are saying “Enercon has provided us with some great tools to help us…

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Solving Potting and Assembly Adhesion Challenges with Custom Solutions

Mertek Solutions, Inc. (Sanford, NC) designs and builds custom machinery for automated manufacturing in a wide variety of industries including automotive, medical, packaging, assembly, consumer goods, appliances and plastics. The company often integrates robotic automation with adhesive dispensing. In many cases, atmospheric plasma or flame surface treating technologies are used when adhesion needs to be improved for critical bonding…

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What Plasma Does to a Surface

Tech Paper What Plasma Does to A Surface

Plasma surface treatment is used to improve a surface’s receptiveness to adhesives, inks, paints & coatings; But what does it actually do to the surface? This technical article provides a concise, yet detailed explanation of the three distinct surface modification processes that occur simultaneously when exposing a surface to plasma treatment. It also contains a short video…

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New Atmospheric Plasma Surface Treating Technology for Wider and Uniform Treatment at High Speeds

Blown-ion™ 500 Head Discharge

A new technical paper recently presented at industry events details the benefits of a new Blown-Ion™ Plasma Technology featuring a MultiPort™ head design. The in-line plasma treater cleans, etches and functionalizes surfaces to improve bonding of adhesives, inks, paints, coatings and more. This new technology offers expanded capabilities for treating composites, plastics, glass and metals…

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Robotic Plasma Treatment for Headlamp Adhesion

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. Hella’s factory is equipped with a wide variety of molding, painting, hot…

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