Openair-Plasma®
in the International Press

Just a few years ago, a global lighting manufacturer decided to radically change his pretreatment method before bonding. Instead of wet chemicals, atmospheric pressure plasma achieved the high level of adhesion required for the thousands of aluminum lighting housings produced each year. ALUMINIUM-PRAXIS (Kick-Off Edition 11/2019) reports.

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Groundbreaking decision: Adhesion without primer

For the 'MoPlasDekon' (mobile plasma decontamination) joint project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Plasmatreat and its project partners have developed a plasma disinfector which can decontaminate surfaces contaminated as a result of biological hazards without using chemicals. MEDICINE & TECHNOLOGY (No.1 [11].2019) reports.

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Research for civil protection: Decontamination with DBD plasma

Large quantities of chemicals and contaminated wastewater are normally incurred during the precleaning of aluminum strips before coating. For the past 12 years, Openair-Plasma® has enabled a leading solar shading manufacturer to avoid using any wet chemicals for fine cleaning their aluminum strips and so set an example of environment responsibility. The specialist journal WOMAG (10/2019) reports in detail.

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Plasma for chrome-free sun shading

When three giant LNG tankers are still safely sailing the oceans after thirteen years, Openair-Plasma® and the cooperation of German-French engineers in the implementation of the safety-relevant bonding process for tank insulation have made a decisive contribution. The German specialist journal DICHT! ("TIGHT!" / 3 (9)/2019) reports on the largest application of this plasma technology ever.

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Sustainably tight and ice-cold across the oceans

The use of wet chemicals is still the standard method of pretreating aluminum surfaces, but there is a growing desire to avoid toxic substances and reduce energy consumption. The journal POLYSURFACES (No.3[9].2019) has published a series of case studies to show how the two plasma technologies Openair-Plasma® and PlasmaPlus® save energy and entirely dispense with environmentally harmful pretreatment processes.

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Environmentally friendly pretreatment for aluminum

A newly developed, mobile plasma technology should make it possible for the first time to perform the necessary disinfection of contaminated surfaces in hazardous areas anywhere in the world without using harmful and polluting chemicals. WERKSTOFFE IN DER FERTIGUNG ("Materials in production"), Issue No. 5 [9-10] /2019, contains a detailed report on the background to and results of the MoPlasDekon research project.

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Plasma for disaster relief

If airborne communications between the pilot and the control tower fail, the safety of passengers can no longer be guaranteed. For world-leading systems manufacturer Rohde & Schwarz, Openair-Plasma® ensures the long-time stable adhesion of the polymer protective coating to the plastic-encapsulated circuit board assemblies. The specialist plastics processing journal KUNSTSTOFF + VERARBEITUNG has published the case study in its 2019 edition.

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A Question of Safety – Plasma in Avionics

Plasmatreat and its partners in the MoPlasDekon research project have developed a new decontamination system to protect against biological hazards in infected areas. With the mobile plasma disinfector, in future it should be possible to eliminate dangerous pathogens on objects at disaster scenes anywhere in the world using a dry and entirely chemical-free process. The specialist journal WOMAG (7-8/2019) reports.

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Plasma in biological disasters

When one of the world's leading automotive suppliers decided ten years ago to coat a safety-relevant aluminum component with atmospheric pressure plasma to improve corrosion protection, it was a sensation. Today the company pretreats over one million parts a year with PlasmaPlus® prior to bonding. The specialist journal WOMAG (6/2019) reports.

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PlasmaPlus®: Setting new quality standards with plasma

POLYMER COMPOSITES 2019, the international conference organized by the Czech "Association for Technical Support and Promotion of Polymer Composites", focuses this year on the latest technologies for plastic composites and trends in the manufacturing and processing of these materials. One catalogue entry describes how Openair-Plasma® has significantly improved adhesion processes for plastic surfaces for users in the automotive industry.

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Plasma optimizes adhesive processes in the automotive industry