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Powerdrop: enabling low waste coating with difficult materials
Archipelago Technology
what we do
Coatings are everywhere – our cars, homes, gadgets, even the food we eat! Yet the spraying processes used to apply these coatings are expensive and inefficient – up to 50% is wasted, causing huge economic and environmental cost.
By replacing the spraying process with a high efficiency, versatile ink jet alternative, our unique Powerdrop™ ink jet system solves these issues and adds further value.
Powerdrop™
is a non-contact process that can operate at high speed and can handle even difficult materials such as high viscosity adhesives.
Powerdrop™
applies high quality, water-based coatings with minimal waste, making it suitable for even high value materials.
Powerdrop™
delivers precision doses of materials at distances of 300mm or more, yet with millimetre accuracy.
- Waterproofing coatings – e.g. paper packaging
- Adhesive application e.g. packaging
- Quality coatings – e.g. furniture manufacturing
- Agricultural chemicals such as crop spraying
How do you solve the problem of plastic packaging and waste? Guy Newcombe explains Powerdrop, the large scale industrial inkjet printing technology – producing complete waterproof coatings with no waste.
Innovate UK helps Archipelago Technology to transform innovative technology into business reality: Enabling businesses to turn ideas into reality with Innovate UK support.
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About Us
technology
Powerdrop dispenses viscous liquids as microdroplets.
Many manufacturing operations need to dispense precise, micro-litre quantities of viscous liquids. Conventional metering systems can’t deliver volumes that are sufficiently small. Ink jet systems cannot deliver viscous liquids.
Powerdrop can do both. It provides precise, consistent, micro-litre deliver of viscous liquids.
Our unique Powerdrop technology results in a greatly reduced use of materials such as chemicals and paints by directing them accurately to where they are needed and in precise quantities. Coating quality is ensured, while overspray is eliminated, reducing costs, waste and carbon emissions, and reducing costs.
