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Reducing our customers' carbon footprint with innovative nano-coatings

Our PECVD technology replaces wet coating processes which are often harmful to the environment and require far more energy than plasma nano-coating. We can help you calculate how your company could reduce its carbon footprint with Europlasma coating solutions.
 

Wearables and Electronics

Our ultra-thin coatings add permanent water repellent (hydrophobic) and oil repellent (oleophobic) properties to the coated surface without changing colour, and without affecting the performance of the device. We now introduce PlasmaGuard, the first PECVD 100% halogen-free conformal coating. All PlasmaGuard coatings are not only PFOA and PFOS free but they are also free from any fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine or other halogens. However this is not where the good news ends: PlasmaGuard E is also an even stronger barrier coating, outperforming not only other nano-coating barriers commercially available, but also other types of conformal coating like acrylic, epoxy, silicone or even parylene.
 
 

Medical

Europlasma has decades of experience in providing equipment for the medical industry. 
With our state of the art PECVD machines we provide solutions for the fine cleaning and activation of surfaces and both hydrophobic and hydrophilic nano-coating.
 
Activation and ultra-fine cleaning of catheters guide wires and all type of medical plastics

The Europlasma PECVD process can be used for the fine cleaning of medical plastics and metals used in stents, implants and contact lenses.
The application guarantees a clean and cost-effective overall process. Because of the high energy level of the plasma, it can selectively break open the structure of chemical or organic substances on the surface of the material. Using ultrafine cleaning, undesirable substances can be completely removed from even sensitive surfaces. This results in the optimal prerequisite for medical use or later coating.

Micro-fine plasma cleaning removes even the smallest dust particles from plastics, which at first adhere firmly to the surface because of the additives. The plasma causes the particles to detach completely from the substrate.  By using the chemical-physical reaction in the nano range, high-quality, surfaces are achieved.

Medical coatings
Europlasma specialises in two types of coatings for the medical industry: hydrophilic coatings and hydrophobic:
Hydrophilic coatings are used to reduce friction because of their excellent lubricity, mow friction or stiction on catheters, guide wires, stents, etc But they also can act as an outstanding biocompatibility coating. Our hydrophilic coating is used on textile to wrap organs for transplants to implants against rejection.
Europlasma’s hydrophobic coatings are unmatched for their water-repelling, antifouling, anticorrosion effects. We have barrier coatings that outperform parylene and they are now fully halogen (so also fluorine) free!
 
 
Europlasma has helped a growing number of industrial groups to gain competitive advantage from the functionalities that nanocoatings add to their products.
Some of the typical applications include:
  • nonwovens and meltblown
  • nanofiber membranes,
  • ePTFE membranes,
  • technical mesh and fabrics

 

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