SOUTH KOREA • Expansion of Sung An Machinery’s new R & D centre is expected to complete in the next few weeks. The R&D centre is located in a new 15,600 sqft (1450 m²) building and offers clean room facilities for precise optical film coating. It is equipped e.g. with a high accuracy peel strength tester, optical property measuring system and humidity chamber. Director of the centre is Danny Ryu.
The facility will be home to the company’s solution coating lab, a semi-production facility designed for customer product development trials, demonstrations, toll coating, solution coating trials and internal research. SAM’s printed electronic lab will also relocate to this center thereby creating additional assembly floor space in the company’s manufacturing plant and consolidating the labs.
The company’s solution coating lab will open in March 2016 at the R&D centre and will be managed by Y.B. Kim. The lab’s pilot coating machine is designed for running water and solvent based, 100% solids, and hot melt coatings with a maximum width of 1060 mm (41.7”) at 600 m/min (1968 fpm) with speeds up to 1,000 m/min (3280 fpm). The line offers modular coating capabilities of slot die, micro gravure, pressurized chamber doctor blade, direct/reverse/offset gravure, S-knife (comma), reverse roll, semi-flexo, 5-roll and transfer roll to start. The line includes a 22 m (72 ft), 7 zone flotation and roll support dryer. Unique features of the machine line are automatic turrets at the primary unwind and winder for continuous running. Additional features include a secondary unwind for wet and dry laminations, corona treatment, web cleaning and UV curing.
Sung An Machinery’s Open House will be held at their facility in Korea on 22 April 2016.
