New short cycling process fort he selective treatment of surfaces with plasma:

Plasma-Spot®

....from the smallest plant                                                      .... to the production plant.

The „Plasma-Spot®“ is a new plasma device for inline capable short cycling treatment with plasma being between atmospheric and low-pressure plasma. The objective of this process is to connect the advantages of both processes in order to get a further access of the plasma technology to the surface market. Atmospheric plasmas as well as low-pressure plasmas are processes of pretreatment. These processes mostly are utilized in the processing of plastics in order to increase the surface tension and to achieve a better adhesion of coatings.

The plasma technology can be applied at:

• Cleaning of surfaces (such as prior to bonding or to increase the adhesion )
• activation or ‘wetting’ of surfaces (such as prior to printing, varnishing, bonding or spraying of plastics or elastomers)
• etching of surfaces, especially at high-performance plastics the surface has to be micro structured in order to achieve an increased adhesion
• coating of surfaces: plasma polymerisation (for example deposition of hydrophilic or hydrophobic polymers)

•  Applications of the Plasma-Spot®

• selective treatment of surfaces prior to bonding
• selective treatment of surfaces prior to printing
• selective treatment of surfaces during the repair of a bonding or repair of a lacquer damage
• selective coating of surfaces (for example non-stick coating or slide coatings)

miniSpot for small parts and small series production

plasma technology GmbH

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Joerg Eisenlohr

Etzwiesenstr. 33

D-72108 Rottenburg a.N.

GERMANY

fon: +49 (0) 74 57 / 73 15 - 39

fax: +49 (0) 74 57 / 73 15 - 44

E-Mail: info@plasmatechnology.de

Here you see the burning plasma in the plasma head of the Plasma-Spot®

Here you see the water wettable surface pretreated with the plasma-spot® processed surface