Contract Coating
DEP is fully equipped to work with you on your most demanding coating project. Whether you need us to develop a new coated product, scale up your protoype or full scale manufacturing, we have the skills and expertise to meet your requirement.
We will reduce your timescales and increase your return on investment by bringing the following key attributes to help you succeed with first class service levels:
- Decades of experience in developing a wide range of coated materials, including adhesives, print receptive coatings and specialist resin systems.
- Laboratory and testing facilities.
- Lab scale development.
- A range of coating methods including slot die, meyer bar and gravure.
- Pilot Coating Line.
- Full Scale Clean-room Coating up to 1.6 metres width.
- Precision slitting and sheeting.
- First class quality assurance.
DEP has decades of experience in developing coated products and contract coating confidentially for World class companies in Imaging, Medical, Security, Tapes and Specialist Labels
DEP has laboratory research and test facilities for bespoke product development. We have the dedicated technical expertise to develop and optimise your coated products to meet the most demanding applications. We have a wet lab for sample coating and mixing and a separate facility for analytical work.
DEP is equipped with a 600mm wide Pilot line to allow us to optimise a coating formulation and process prior to scale-up. If you have high value raw materials or require smaller volumes, DEP is ideally equipped to support your project.
DEP operate two production scale versatile coating machines with widths up to 1650mm. Both coating machines are housed in controlled environments with one housed in an ISO Class 7 (US FED STD 209E Class 10,000) area with additional controls at the coating heads. Our clean room coating lines allow us to produce high quality defect free coating with high optical clarity.