Hot Stuff! - Mack Brooks · Hot Stuff Continuous rotation Fill Eject Heat. Archipelago Technology 2017 Why go hot? Not everything is liquid at room temperature! Viscosity decreases

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Hot Stuff!How Powerdrop’s heated drum is enabling high

volume manufacturing

Ben Brebner, Archipelago Technology

[email protected]


Who am I?


Who are Archipelago?

Taking inkjet in a new, exciting direction

Developing technologies that enable high volume manufacturing


Digital Printing - Today

Smaller drops, greaterresolutions, higherspeeds

Printing functionalmaterials

A more diverse range of substrates


But where next?

Inkjet is a key manufacturing technology

Inkjet struggles with

• particles

• viscosity

• aggressive fluids

Currently, depositing viscous materials is either expensivewasteful or damaging


More Speed!

How do you increase the frequency of a jetting system?

•Short fluid path

•Rapid refill

•Decrease jetting event duration

•More nozzles

•Uncouple nozzle loading from jetting



Hot Stuff

Continuous rotation

Fill

Eject

Heat


Why go hot?

Not everything is liquid at room temperature!

Viscosity decreases with temperature


Jetting the un-jet-able

• Powerdrop enables precise, high throughput and zero waste jetting of viscous materials

• Powerdrop is highly scalable

• Powerdrop is flexible


Fluids up to 2000mPaS

Temperatures up to 200C

Particle sizes of 10s of μm

Tolerant of corrosive materials

Speeds in excess of 240m/min

Powerdrop is astoundingly flexible


Scalable and Configurable

•Powerdrop can be configured to jet at multiple coating widths

•Powerdrop can deposit large quantities of fluids quickly

•Coating thicknesses can be tailored to application



Powerdrop is enabling manufacturing

Coating furniture

Jetting primer for inkjet processes

Applying adhesive on manufacturing lines

Coating chocolate bars


Three key take-aways

• Archipelago is building Powerdrop systems to solve real world manufacturing challenges

• Powerdrop enables printing of previously un-printablematerials

• The ability to deposit shaped adhesive patterns creates opportunities in product construction


Contact Us

Ben Brebner

+44 7896 880 365

[email protected]

Archipelago Technology Group

www.archipelagotechnology.com

+44 1223 459 160

Hot Stuff! - Mack Brooks · Hot Stuff Continuous rotation Fill Eject Heat. Archipelago Technology 2017 Why go hot? Not everything is liquid at room temperature! Viscosity decreases

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