FMP Technology builds custom coating and drying systems based on thorough process analysis designed specifically for you. FMP offers everything you need from individual systems to complete plants.
Slot-dies
Coating Lines
Process analysis
Lab- and industrial dryers
Process analysis
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
FMP slot-dies are among the most precise coating machines available on the market. They are designed to exactly meet customer requirements using empirical, numerical and analytical methods. The FMP slot-dies manufactured with micrometer accuracy so that uniform distribution of up to +-1% can be achieved. Before delivery, every slot-die is checked for uniform distribution and perfected with hand lapping processes to guarantee the desired result. The design and size of the coating distribution chamber are adjusted, depending on the physical properties of your coating. Heated slot-dies are also possible. FMP offers everything from applicator and feeding systems, which are perfectly matched to the slot-die to complete coating lines, which guarantee high product quality. From high-speed coating units to precision coating units (for nanoelectronics and other applications) – FMP has the right solution for you.
Slot-die, applicator and feeding system are perfectly adjusted to each other
Thanks to many years of project experience in various industries, FMP Technology has the know-how to design and build coating lines to exactly meet your needs. Roll-to-roll, sheet-to-sheet, high-speed and high-precision coating lines have all been successfully realized. Thanks to detailed process analysis and feasibility studies, FMP ensures that your money is well-invested and success is guaranteed. FMP offers coating systems in all sizes, speeds, degrees of precision and with much optional equipment available (UV curing, measuring systems, automation and much more). Our slot-dies delivers maximum precision, our process knowledge guarantees the best product and our engineering know-how delivers maximum convenience, as our customers from the automotive, battery, packaging, medical and many other industries can confirm. Thanks to our drying knowledge, we will also be able to dry your coatings defect-free and with high efficiency.
Sheet-to-sheet curtain coating line
Fully automated coating and drying line
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
FMP Technology offers customized dryers for your drying product, both in the laboratory and on an industrial scale. Thanks to the drying simulation software at FMP, our dryers are only as long as they need to be. Wether your focus is on fast and efficient or on especially gentle drying, FMP offers the perfect dryer.
We put great emphasis on:
Quality: High-quality coatings achieved through the patented FMP nozzle technology and optimized dryer geometries for even airflow
Safety: Explosion protection solutions for flammable organic solvents
Energy efficiency: Homogenous, gentle and high heat input
The unique selling point of the patented, impingement-free FMP drying technology is that the drying air is homogenously distributed across specially designed porous plates and flows laminarly across the coating surface at velocities between 2 and 6 m/s. In impingement dryers, heating air typically passes through air distribution nozzles containing two very thin slits and hits the drying surface at velocities of 35 m/s or more. The larger outlet area of FMP nozzles compared to impingement nozzles allow similar heating gas volumes and drying rates to be achieved at much lower airflow velocities. Due to the low air velocities, the air volume can be increased further without damaging the coating, allowing for faster drying rates. The FMP drying technology enables a much gentler drying process with much more homogenous temperature and velocity profiles inside the dryer. This enables increased process control, decreased skin formation and diffusion limitations and increased product quality. This makes the impingement-free drying nozzle particularly interesting for thick or sensitive coatings.
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Unique impingement-free floating dryer
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
With the in-house FMP drying software and coating calculation tools, FMP Technology can analyze complex coating and drying processes for you. Our software enables us to pinpoint where your process has potential for improvement and what parameters can be changed to achieve this.
FMP is happy to offer its pilot plants and expertise to help you find the perfect solution without investing large sums of money. In addition, thanks to several partners, we can also offer you large scale trials.
Simulation of the pressure inside a slot-die
Simulation of the airflow inside a dryer
Coating trials at the FMP technology center
Drying trials of a nano-coating at the FMP technology center
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
For some applications it is important to produce many single drops of the same diameter. This includes measurement instrument calibration, particle production via spray drying/ crystallization and the cross-linking of hydrogels. Conventional sprays always have a large number of different droplet diameters and large droplet diameter distributions. In contrast, the FMP droplet generator enables the continuous production of droplet chains with very monodisperse diameter distribution. The droplet diameter can be adjusted from 40 to 1000 µm. We are pleased to advise you on your specific application and can draw on experience from past projects to develop the best solution for you.
FMP droplet generator (Standard)
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
FMP Technology builds custom coating and drying systems based on thorough process analysis designed specifically for you. FMP offers everything you need from individual systems to complete plants.
Slot-dies
Coating Lines
Process analysis
Lab- and industrial dryers
Process analysis
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
FMP slot-dies are among the most precise coating machines available on the market. They are designed to exactly meet customer requirements using empirical, numerical and analytical methods. The FMP slot-dies manufactured with micrometer accuracy so that uniform distribution of up to +-1% can be achieved. Before delivery, every slot-die is checked for uniform distribution and perfected with hand lapping processes to guarantee the desired result. The design and size of the coating distribution chamber are adjusted, depending on the physical properties of your coating. Heated slot-dies are also possible. FMP offers everything from applicator and feeding systems, which are perfectly matched to the slot-die to complete coating lines, which guarantee high product quality. From high-speed coating units to precision coating units (for nanoelectronics and other applications) – FMP has the right solution for you.
Slot-die, applicator and feeding system are perfectly adjusted to each other
Thanks to many years of project experience in various industries, FMP Technology has the know-how to design and build coating lines to exactly meet your needs. Roll-to-roll, sheet-to-sheet, high-speed and high-precision coating lines have all been successfully realized. Thanks to detailed process analysis and feasibility studies, FMP ensures that your money is well-invested and success is guaranteed. FMP offers coating systems in all sizes, speeds, degrees of precision and with much optional equipment available (UV curing, measuring systems, automation and much more). Our slot-dies delivers maximum precision, our process knowledge guarantees the best product and our engineering know-how delivers maximum convenience, as our customers from the automotive, battery, packaging, medical and many other industries can confirm. Thanks to our drying knowledge, we will also be able to dry your coatings defect-free and with high efficiency.
Sheet-to-sheet curtain coating line
Fully automated coating and drying line
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
FMP Technology offers customized dryers for your drying product, both in the laboratory and on an industrial scale. Thanks to the drying simulation software at FMP, our dryers are only as long as they need to be. Wether your focus is on fast and efficient or on especially gentle drying, FMP offers the perfect dryer.
We put great emphasis on:
Quality: High-quality coatings achieved through the patented FMP nozzle technology and optimized dryer geometries for even airflow
Safety: Explosion protection solutions for flammable organic solvents
Energy efficiency: Homogenous, gentle and high heat input
The unique selling point of the patented, impingement-free FMP drying technology is that the drying air is homogenously distributed across specially designed porous plates and flows laminarly across the coating surface at velocities between 2 and 6 m/s. In impingement dryers, heating air typically passes through air distribution nozzles containing two very thin slits and hits the drying surface at velocities of 35 m/s or more. The larger outlet area of FMP nozzles compared to impingement nozzles allow similar heating gas volumes and drying rates to be achieved at much lower airflow velocities. Due to the low air velocities, the air volume can be increased further without damaging the coating, allowing for faster drying rates. The FMP drying technology enables a much gentler drying process with much more homogenous temperature and velocity profiles inside the dryer. This enables increased process control, decreased skin formation and diffusion limitations and increased product quality. This makes the impingement-free drying nozzle particularly interesting for thick or sensitive coatings.
Unique impingement-free floating dryer
Contact us!
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
With the in-house FMP drying software and coating calculation tools, FMP Technology can analyze complex coating and drying processes for you. Our software enables us to pinpoint where your process has potential for improvement and what parameters can be changed to achieve this.
FMP is happy to offer its pilot plants and expertise to help you find the perfect solution without investing large sums of money. In addition, thanks to several partners, we can also offer you large scale trials.
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
For some applications it is important to produce many single drops of the same diameter. This includes measurement instrument calibration, particle production via spray drying/ crystallization and the cross-linking of hydrogels. Conventional sprays always have a large number of different droplet diameters and large droplet diameter distributions. In contrast, the FMP droplet generator enables the continuous production of droplet chains with very monodisperse diameter distribution. The droplet diameter can be adjusted from 40 to 1000 µm. We are pleased to advise you on your specific application and can draw on experience from past projects to develop the best solution for you.
FMP droplet generator (Standard)
Martin Dobiasch | Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
Coating and drying process optimization trials can often not be run directly on production lines due to cost reasons. With this in mind, FMP developed a small and compact fully automatic pilot plant for the customer, enabling the application of single sheets via curtain coating at substrate speeds of up to 250 m/min. This enables the fast introduction of process improvements without requiring long development times at the large-scale plant. Likewise, sample coatings can be produced quickly, efficiently and cheaply in small quantities.
In-house technologies of FMP were incorporated into the production plant. All components were specially designed to meet the customer’s needs. The distribution system within the FMP slot-die is chosen from a large number of different geometries and sizes to achieve the best possible uniformity of the applied medium. For drying, FMP relies on its patented impingement-free convection drying technology. The unique selling point of this technology is, that it does not use an impingement jet and yet achieves drying rates at least as high as those of conventional dryers, resulting in a much gentler drying process. Conventional drying systems can also be installed on request.
With such a laboratory system, developments or further improvements, for example to introduce new technologies such as curtain coating, can be tested and optimized in detail on a very small scale. If the transition to the large-scale plant is ultimately made, a well-founded knowledge from the experiments can be used to guarantee a fast introduction of the new process technology with minimal development times.
Your advantages:
Many technologies of the near future such as cloud cumputing, self-driving cars and 5G telecommunication networks will require very high data speeds. Such faster data speeds are expected to benefit all industries.
The high-precision linear coating system from FMP Technology (see Figure 1) is playing an important role in these developments. The FMP slot-die coating system is being used by a leading Swiss company to manufacture high-frequency, high-speed circuit boards with data transmission rates of up to one terabyte per second. With the FMP coating system, copper-clad, high-frequency PCBs are being coated as piece goods with high-precision UV-structural etch resists.
The unique challenge for this process is that the applied coating must already be in an optimal, operating condition shortly after the coating process starts. This can only be achieved if the conveyor system, precision table and slot-die are all perfectly coordinated with respect to one another. The precision table and coating nozzle must also be designed to maintain a surface homogeneity below 10 μm when quickly heated to 60 °C. Both points are necessary to achieve excellent coating uniformity in both the web and coating direction. Thanks to FMP´s expertise in precision mechanical engineering, these problems were solved.
These strengths allow the FMP coating slot dies to apply mirror-smooth coatings to copper-clad plates (see Figure below). The precise resist layers serve as the basis of the very fine, high quality electrical high-frequency structures shown in figure 2. We are pleased to make our contribution to ensure that our customer remains a leader in his field.
CEO of the Swiss Company: „With the linear coating system supplied by FMP, we are now in a position to further improve the precision of the coating and thus achieve a leading market position.“
FMP Technology GmbH wishes its customer continued success and is looking forward to future joint projects, in which a distinct expertise in the field of coating and drying in combination with the precision mechanical engineering necessary for the production is required.
FMP Technology was founded by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Durst from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The initial goal was to make existing knowledge from the university available to the industry. Over the years, FMP Technology has developed a core business focus in the areas of coating and drying as well as droplet generators. Due to its origins, FMP has a tradition of innovation. FMP offers its customers the latest technologies, which, with the help of extensive process know-how, are precisely tailored to their needs.
„The market needs companies that bring new momentum with innovations based on a solid foundation of knowledge. This is why I enjoy working on challenging processes at FMP and implementing them with solid machine technology. The sustainable creation of value for our customers in the field of coating and drying technology is our top priority at FMP Technology.“
(Shareholder & Consultant Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Eggerath)
The field of battery cell production is currently experiencing a major upswing in investment in Europe. This can be seen in the planned billion-euro subsidy from the German government for battery production “giga-factories”
FMP Technology GmbH is developing coating and drying units for battery cell production. In numerous projects with industry and research institutions, several coating and drying units have already been successfully realized. Among the challenges to overcome in the field of coating is the need to tailor slot-die coating units to highly particulate and viscous battery slurries and to prevent clogging from occuring. For maximum battery efficiency, it is also necessary to develop gentle drying processes for defect-free, uniform coatings. The impingement-free FMP drying nozzles ensure an especially gentle drying process for high quality, high efficiency coatings.
FMP is also working to develop intelligent process monitoring (quality gates, etc.), in which new algorithms will be used to regulate coating and drying processes and increase efficiency and product quality.
Slot-die technology is often used when extremely highest precision and very uniform coating thickness are required. This is especially important for nanolayer films <1000 nm thick. For such thin films, precise dosing of small fluid volumes in the slot-die coating is a must. Thanks to extensive process know-how, FMP is able to design slot-dies that are able to precisely apply nano-coatings, even under such challenging conditions.
The 2021 LOPEC printed electronics trade show may be over, but you can find FMP Technology in the LOPEC industry directory all year long:
Thank you to the visitors and exhibitors for an exciting trade show. We look forward to seeing you again in 2022.
A turbulent year 2020 comes to an end. Nevertheless, FMP Technology can look back on it with joy and look forward to the future with great anticipation. Despite the difficult conditions for all of us, it was possible to successfully complete many projects and we would like to thank our customers and partners, with whom the cooperation continued flawlessly despite the Corona crisis. However, we are not resting on our laurels, as new exciting projects await us in 2021. We want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Highly vicsous fluids or fluids with high solid content can often cause blockages in conventional slot-dies which results in streaking or other defects in the coating. Industries like the battery industry are particularly affected. In order to no longer be subject to any restrictions with the coating fluid, FMP Technology has developed a non-clogging slot-die for a leading manufacturer of battery and fuel cell products. This new slot-die can coat perfectly in continuous operation without the need of intermediate cleaning and production downtimes. With this innovation, FMP creates decisive added value for its customers: To increase the product quality and production rate as well as being able to guarantee a flawless production process.
Drying plays a decisive role in any coating process with dissolved solids. Not only because it represents the most energy-intensive section in the plant, but also because it has a decisive influence on the final coating quality.
As part of a doctorate, industrial aspects of drying will therefore be examined in more detail from this year, in addition to other topics. The aim is to provide practice-relevant results that will enable industry to design its processes to be energy-optimised and quality-efficient.
This presentation is intended to provide a brief scientific introduction to drying. It will be shown that drying processes are much more complex than one would initially imagine. Drying therefore rightly continues to be an area with many scientific questions. The core topics, which are to be dealt with in this thesis, are listed and explained.
General information about FMP and its product ranges as well as its process analysis.
How FMP can help you to improve your battery production, reduce costs and improve battery quality.
FMP TECHNOLOGY GMBH
Am Weichselgarten 34
D-91058 Erlangen
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Martin Dobiasch
Sales & Marketing
Phone: +49 (0) 9131 932868 – 115
Email: vertrieb(at)fmp-technology.com
