Sustainable packaging development
Our client asked:
Our client asked, what are the optimal deposition methods to enable high-performance, low-thickness chemical barriers to be added to structural substrates in order to create a new type of sustainable packaging? These methods must be provable at lab scale and quickly scalable to production levels.
The project story:
Sagentia Innovation’s applied science team worked alongside chemists, formulators and production engineers from the client team to understand critical deposition techniques for the novel functional coatings. Sagentia Innovation focused on:
- Chemical compatibility of different coating formulations and treatments against a range of challenging chemistries
- Creation of test apparatus to explore deposition techniques and operating parameters
- Lab-scale and production-scale investigation into post-coating processing such as curing and tempering
- Development of applicable test methods and protocols to assist the client team
- Surface and substrate characterisation and analysis
- Design of experiments (DoE) and statistical support
Client benefit:
The support from Sagentia Innovation directly accelerated the client’s development process, adding capability analysis and insight. This allowed the client to keep moving at a very rapid development pace whilst building up their own internal capability. Key deliverables were a very flexible coating deposition apparatus, used now as an R&D tool for conducting process optimisation, standardised test methodology for chemical and physical characterisation of the coatings, and recommendations for suitable industrial-scale coating and post-coating equipment, processes and operational parameters
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