Combining our engineering knowledge from machinery build and substrate handling, we offer vacuum machinery coating platforms expertly designed to the application – meeting and surpassing our customers’ needs.

These platforms include pilot scale vacuum coaters for R&D purposes or small-scale production, through to matched production machinery for customers looking to expand the width and productivity of an application with market potential.

Vacuum deposition is a successful and long-established method of coating thin films onto both flexible and rigid substrates where the application and material choice determines that atmospheric techniques would not be viable.

This equipment offers higher productivity rates, lower costs, plus differentiating specifications and applications – benefits which are gained through the vast range of methods and materials that can be utilised and subsequently coated within a vacuum chamber.

Coatings can range from being simple monolayer metals for flexible packaging applications, solar absorber layers or optical media devices, through to complex solar cell, barrier or display structures utilising multilayer approaches and varied deposition source types.

The variety of applications also have their own needs on coating porosity, uniformity and encapsulation requirements which can be addressed by using different deposition methods and or additional treatments.

These need very little or no influence from the surroundings and must be controlled using a vacuum chamber to prevent contaminants from inclusion in the final product.