Germany: BASF pressure sensitive adhesives – world's fastest coating plant comes on stream

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(2003), "Germany: BASF pressure sensitive adhesives – world's fastest coating plant comes on stream", Pigment & Resin Technology, Vol. 32 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/prt.2003.12932eab.012

Germany: BASF pressure sensitive adhesives – world's fastest coating plant comes on stream

Germany: BASF pressure sensitive adhesives – world's fastest coating plant comes on stream

BASF has launched its newly modernized centre for pressure sensitive adhesives at its Verbund site in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The centre houses two ultra-modern pilot plants: a new – and the world's fastest with a maximum speed of 1,500 m/min – coating plant for aqueous pressure sensitive adhesives, and a UV hot melt adhesive plant operating at a speed of up to 700 m/min. The development and modernization costs of the coating centre, which was designed and built in cooperation with Pagendarm BTT GmbH, totalled e5 million.

"The ultra-modern coating centre guarantees our skills advantage in coating technology and at the same time strengthens our position as an innovative producer of pressure sensitive adhesives" stated Dr Martin Brudermüller, Head of BASF's functional polymers division. "From today, we can design the joint trials we carry out with our customers even more flexibly and efficiently. We can vary the interaction between coating technology, machine speeds, carriers and pressure sensitive adhesives to an extent never previously achieved. This makes us the ideal partner for customers wishing to optimize their production processes for the manufacture of self-adhesive products such as adhesive tapes or labels. We can create even more value for our customers and for ourselves!"