Improve Repeatability And Consistency

Preparing a surface is often to ensure that process repeatability and consistency requirements are met, every time. Plasma and corona treatment prepare the surface so that at the very least, it is the same for each component. Ideally, this improvement in the surface is so far past a ‘good’ level that it leads to other performance increases too. Systems are often used with customers that have good performance to begin with, but an automated, inline plasma system removes any manual or variable processes so your finished product is always right.

Resolve Variable Incoming Quality

Incoming material, humidity and temperature, age of adhesives and many more parameters can mean daily fluctuations to manufacturing processes, even with engineers doing their role 100% right. Plasma and corona pretreat and prepare materials to take performance well past minimum and ensure that when everything goes the wrong way, the process still works.

Reduce Final Product Failures

Many applications have knife edge quality control – with something simple like a thumb print causing product failure. Working in safety critical industries like medical device manufacturing, our equipment ensures that your material performance is the best it can be. Reducing situations where invisible and often undetectable issues could arise, leading to product failure with the customer.

Photo of a medical device with poor print adhesion
Non Destructive Quality

Introduce Non-Destructive Quality Assurance

Plasma and corona treatment improve surface energy, which is a measurable quality we can check. Magic numbers like 38 dynes, 56 dynes and 72 dynes are often used, but which method and which value works for your process might need a little more thought. You can explore all of this with us either by buying equipment or test inks, or by using our lab and expertise.

Take Performance Past Minimum

A key goal for the Tantec team is to take performance of the material past where it needs to be. A process that needs a pass rate of 40 dynes will work fine if the material is 42 dynes. On a bad day when the material hasn’t been dried properly, or the temperature in the factory rockets or plummets, the performance of the material might not be perfect until it reaches 50 dynes. Taking the material to 60 dynes allows for any fluctuations or changes to process without coming close to a failure point.

You Are Currently Looking At Solutions, Redirect To Equipment?