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San Diego, California Headquarters, USA

In San Diego, Bekaert Specialty Films manufactures in two buildings of approximately 150K square feet each. The manufacturing process features a world class, environmentally friendly emission control system. Manufacturing takes place in temperature & humidity controlled clean rooms, class 1000 to class 10,000 with positive air pressure.

Vacuum Sputtering

Met-5: Wide width high speed metallic sputtering (up to 800 FPM)

  • Coating width: 74” (1.9m)
  • Single chamber (dual drum) with 6 rotatable cathodes

NV-2: high speed production of multi-layer and complex optical coatings

  • Versatile: Dual chambers and multi-cathode
  • Coating width: 54” (1.4m)
  • 2 chambers with 6 planar cathodes
  • AC or DC sputtering

Coating and Laminating:

Process

  • Solvent, aqueous, or UV
  • Viscosity: 1 to 5000 cps
  • Coating thickness: 0.025 µ - 2 mils (50 µ)
  • Oven temperature: up to 300F
  • Coating methods: slot die, rod coating, and Bekaert proprietary
  • On-line thickness measurement: beta
  • Digital camera inspection/logging roll maps
  • Process data logging
  • Corona treatment

Typical Coatings

  • Pressure sensitive adhesive coatings
  • Conductive coatings
  • Lamination adhesives
  • Primer coatings
  • Printable coatings
  • Anti-scratch hard coats
  1. Coating Width 74”
    • Two coating stations: slot die, rod coating, & Bekaert proprietary
    • UV or solvent chemistry
    • Dryers (up to 300 F):90’ (3 zones, idler), & 24’ (2 zones, floatation)
    • Class 10,000 room & class 1000 dryer
  2. Coating Line Width 62”
    • Rod coating & Bekaert proprietary
    • Solvent
    • Dryer (up to 250 F): 60’ (3 zones)
  3. Coating Line Width 62”
    • Rod coating & Bekaert proprietary
    • UV & solvent
    • Dryer (up to 235 F): 30’ (2 zones)

Class 10,000 Clean room Slitting

Incoming Roll

  • Up to 74”
  • 3”, 6” & 10” paper core

Finished Roll

  • Roll width: down to 3”
  • 3”, 6” & 10” plastic & paper core

Standard, plain box or custom packaging