Contract research and consultancy

PTS is developing new functions for packaging and paper surfaces and is also working on resource-conserving processes for surface finishing.

Services

• Optimisation of base paper and development of appropriately formulated coating colours
• Development and application optimisation of coating colour formulations for all conventional application methods
  • Blade or rod metering
  • Film press
  • Curtain coating
• Innovative surfaces created through applied nanotechnology
  • Paper and packaging products with new barrier properties
  • Product protection using bio-materials (sol-gel immunisation)
  • Antimicrobial finish of packagings with nanoparticles
  • Passivating layers designed to keep surfaces clean
    
• Intelligent products with SMART materials
• Cost-effective and rapid product development with laboratory curtain coating
• Reliable upscaling to the industrial scale using the VESTRA pilot coater

Benefits for companies

• Optimising product costs
• Developing new markets
• Improving competitiveness
• Increasing the speed of development
• Carrying out consultancy and preliminary investment studies
• Finding solutions to process problems