Vacuum Plasma Coating - Makes materials surprisingly water- and oil-repellent incandescent lightbulb filaments

Vacuum Plasma Coating - Makes materials surprisingly water- and oil-repellent incandescent lightbulb filamentsAn invisible fluoropolymer coating, just a few nanometers thick, is applied in a vacuum plasma process. The coating is permanent and makes the coated object highly water repellent (hydrophobic) and oil repellent (oleophobic). The coating can be applied on a variety of substrates including plastics, metals, paper, and textiles. The process is gas based and therefore coats complex geometries including non visible internal cavities. Used for: The process

PBT+30 GF - Polybutylene terephthalate filled with 30% glass fiber Celanese - Celanex 2302 HV1/30 19

This polyethylene film is impregnated with carbon black

but a wide range of colours can be applied as a surface finish

The buckle is used on backpacks

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Coated fasteners are easy to handle and install compared with other thread-locking systems that often use liquid adhesive

so it can be attached permanently to products

and motion controls

The panels are available with different geometries

where the contents can be damaged if the package is tilted or turned upside down

The spheres are mixed with resin to make lightweight syntactic foam used as a core material for sandwich panels

and store shelves with embedded lighting