Webinar: Introducing the Surface Intelligence Maturity Model
The Surface Intelligence Maturity Model (SIMM) is a practical framework manufacturers can use to assess and improve their ability to control surface quality for bonding, coating, and sealing processes. This webinar introduces the model and shows how it helps organizations benchmark performance,...
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Eureka Moments: Discovering Non-Obvious Silicone Contamination
The factors that impact the success of adhesion processes are not always as straightforward as they seem. Over the years, we’ve discovered that surface contamination leading to adhesion failures often doesn’t come from the most obvious sources.If you’re doing everything right—measuring surface...
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Webinar: Replacing Water Break Testing with Water Contact Angle Measurement
Experiencing adhesion issues with your coatings and bonds? Join Joann Hilman, Senior Physicist at Brighton Science, as she explains how water contact angle measurement outperforms traditional water break testing for surface quality control.
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Plasma Treatment Station with Automated, Inline Validation - The Surface Analyst XA
Automating the world's most powerful and reliable surface quality inspection technology has opened the doors for exciting collaborations. Our partners at PVA have integrated surface cleanliness measurement via the Surface Analyst XA, before and after using Plasmatreat's atmospheric plasma system,...
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Webinar: Uncovering and Controlling Non-obvious Variables in Surface Preparation of Polymers to Maximize Adhesion
Updated April 2023 Preparation of polymers for adhesion includes processes like corona, flame and plasma treatment. These can be very effective if implemented with proper process control feedbacks. However, they don’t always translate into reliable manufacturing processes. Failure analysis has...
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Webinar: Additive Blooming - Origins, Detection, and Control in Polymer Processing
Updated April 2023 Most polymers contain many non-polymeric components intended to stabilize, toughen, color and lubricate the final product. Certain classes of these additives are capable of migrating to the surface. This additive migration can create a surface that has a composition very...
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Materials Library: Flame Treatment on Polymers
Watch how flame treatment of polymers affects how ready your polymer surface is for additional processing. When it comes to preparing polymers for painting, printing, coating, sealing or bonding, there's an optimal level of treatment, and the Surface Analyst shows how overtreatment can negatively...
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Materials Library: Corona Treatment on Polypropylene Film
Welcome to the Brighton Science Materials Library series. In this series, we use the Surface Analyst to demonstrate how the surface quality of material changes based on common surface preparation processes. We also give typical contact angle measurements before and after processing to give a...
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Webinar: How to Control the Surface Properties of Thermoplastics to Maximize Adhesion
Updated April 2023 The success of bonding and printing to thermoplastics depends on effective control of a remarkably thin zone on the surface of a polymer.
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