Surface Finishing: Current research projects
Coating colour application
- Identifying the influence of pigments on the process at the heel of curtain impingement in a curtain coater (IGF 15437)
- Improving efficiency and quality of curtain-coating via online-monitoring (IGF 15672)
- Simultaneous wet on wet coating utilizing multi layer curtain coating for manufacturing coated cardboard packaging, especially taking into account the transport processes of coating colour ingredients during drying of the coating (IGF 16065)
- Targeted use of coating colour components to reduce the energy demand in paper drying (IGF 15558)
- Scaling Up Nanoparticles in Modern Paper Making (EU SUNPAP) - Manufacture high-quality functional paper and packaging products on a pilot scale by using flexible, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly processes
Manufacturing and components of coating colours
- Reducing calendering conditions via targeted use of nano particles (IGF 15704)
- Reduction of cost and improvement of properties of coating colours by application of microfibrillated cellulose as coating colour co-binder (IGF 15705)
- Targeted, cost-effective structuring of coating colours with a view to improving opacity and coverage of paper and paperboard (IGF 15739)
- Stabilising high-solid dispersions using polymeric nanoparticles of aggregated polyelectrolytes with varying hydrophobicity for use in coating colours for papers (IGF 15981)
Printability and converting
- Developing a new measuring procedure for evaluating the optical surface structure of paper (IGF 15438)
- Reducing the tendency of printing paper to crack during folding by selective pre-treatment in the fold region (IGF 15630)
- Chemical ghosting in sheet-fed offset printing: substrate effects, reaction kinetics and measurement description (IGF 15882)
Special topics
- Creating barrier coatings for transparent packaging paper based on nanoscale dispersed clay minerals (IGF 15268)
- Developing methods for providing coating colours with antimicrobial properties with the help of silver-doped pigments (IGF 15315)
See also PTS research database
