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Plasmatreat: “European Sales Meeting 2008” in Venice

In one of the most interesting cities in the world Giovanni Zambon, Branch Head of Plasmatreat Italy and genuine Venetian, offered his guests in his home city in June this year an excellent congress program. more...

Plasmatreat prevails in patent infringement lawsuit

against RAantec GmbH & Co. KG, Borgholzhausen, also at Court of Appeal as to European patent EP 0 761 415.
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New Plasmatreat Representation in South Africa

In March 2008 RPS cc. (Resin Processing Solutions) assumed responsibility for representing Plasmatreat in South Africa.
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Plasmatreat at nano tech 2008 in Japan

At nano tech 2008 in Tokyo under the heading “Plasma Polymerisation with Openair® Plasma” Plasmatreat presented the globally unique process of plasma polymerisation at atmospheric pressure. more...

Plasmatreat and Bobst conclude partnership agreement

Plasmatreat and the market leader in folding box packaging machines, the Swiss company Bobst, have concluded an exclusive global agreement in the field of folding box gluing. As a result Bobst becomes the sole distributor of Openair® plasma technology in the folding box industry. more...

Plasmatreat awarded innovation prize in the United States

In December the American technical journal Finishing Today Magazine (FTM) honoured Plasmatreat with the FTM INNOVATION AWARD 2007 in the processing technology category. Plasmatreat received the prize for a new environmentally friendly process in the surface pretreatment of aluminium. more...

Plasmatreat at K 2007 –
Optimistic expectations greatly surpassed

The world’s largest plastics and rubber exhibition, K 2007, this year welcomed 3,130 exhibiting companies from all over the world. Between 24 and 31 October around 242,000 industrial visitors from over 100 countries came to Düsseldorf.
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“ ‘Won’t work’, does not figure in my vocabulary”

Peter Förnsel, co-inventor of Openair® plasma technology, is marking his 67th birthday by stepping down from his management role at Plasmatreat and becoming a consultant more...

Openair® plasma revolutionises precleaning in coil coating

At Griesser AG in Switzerland a new Openair plasma installation is to replace the cleaing line with immediate effect. In this way innumerable tons of chemicals and waste process water will be rendered superfluous. more...

Plasmatreat at BOBST’s “PERSPECTIVES 07 Open House”

From 5 to 8 June at the Bobst Group’s in-house exhibition “PERSPECTIVES 07 Open House” in Mex (Lausanne/Switzerland) Plasmatreat presented its complete range of services for the folding box industry. more...

SAE 2007 World Congress: Plasmatreat Automotive Detroit debut

“Engineering for Global Sustainable Mobility—It's Up to Us”. That was the motto of this year’s SAE World Congress which took place from April 16 to 19 in Detroit, USA. For the first time Plasmatreat made an appearance at probably the world’s largest and most important automotive engineering conference held under the aegis of the SAE technical exhibition. more...

Plasmatreat successful at the MD&M Exhibition in California

From February 13 – 15, 2007, Plasmatreat presented itself to the American market at the largest exhibition in the world for the medical industry – MD&M West (Medical Design & Manufacturing) in Anaheim, California. more...

Surface sterilization in medicine: Plasmatreat announces new patent

Press release 25.01.2007. As Plasmatreat North America Inc. today announced, the new patent for use of OPENAIR Plasma technology for sterilizing surfaces has just been registered. According to Managing Director Christian Buske this is the result of successful collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Technology and Packaging (IVV) in Freising, Germany.
The announcement takes place just a few days ahead of the opening of the world’s largest medical exhibition, MD&M West, which takes place in Anaheim, California, and at which Plasmatreat will be present as an exhibitor. MD&M West is the most important exhibition for suppliers and OEMs in the field of the latest research and development in medical technology, health and pharmaceuticals. more...

Plasmatreat wins dispute over European patent

The European Patent Office (EPO) by its decision of 12.12.2006 has upheld Plasmatreat's European Patent EP 0 761 415 relating to a process for increasing the wettability of the surfaces of workpieces. more...

International Award: Plasmatreater AS 400 system honoured by the "iF product design award 2007"

In one of the world's most prestigious design competitions the new "Plasmatreater AS400" laboratory system from Plasmatreat GmbH has been awarded the "if product design award 2007" for outstanding industrial design. more...

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Novotechnik applauds use of plasma in sensor technology

Novotechnik declares Openair pretreatment of its printed circuit boards prior to screen printing as a milestone in the development of position transducer and rotary sensor systems for automotive engineering. more...

Plasmatreat: “European Sales Meeting 2008” in Venice

In one of the most interesting cities in the world Giovanni Zambon, Branch Head of Plasmatreat Italy and genuine Venetian, offered his guests in his home city in June this year an excellent congress program. more...

Plasmatreat prevails in patent infringement lawsuit

against RAantec GmbH & Co. KG, Borgholzhausen, also at Court of Appeal as to European patent EP 0 761 415. more…

Trade Fairs 2008

Interplast 2008 - National Fair and Congress of Plastic Technology Integration

August 25 - 29, 2008
Booth 65 Pav A
Expoville Complex
Joinville SC
Brazil
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Messe Nagoya

September 11 - 14, 2008
Port Messe Nagoya
Japan
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