This course will be held in-person and is intended for professionals (chemists and engineers) working in coating, drying and laminating. The course covers some advanced topics; however, it does not assume the participants have experience.  

• Coating, drying and laminating: terminology and basic challenges
• Common safety hazards and risk mitigation strategies
• Common safety hazards and risk mitigation strategies
• Physics of coating and wetting
• Physics of drying 
• Substrate issues 
• Raw materials, mix, and delivery area
• Coating methods
• Drying hardware 
• Introduction to lamination

This course will present the principles of web handling with case studies to highlight their importance.

Web handling involves the physical mechanics related to the running and control of continuous webs through manufacturing and converting processes. A primary goal of web handling is to transprt the material without incurring defects and losses.

Web handling is a science which involves many topics: material properties, longitudinal dynamics, rollers, traction, wrinkles, spreading, lateral dynamics, guiding, winding, slitting, unwinds, accumulators, and laminating.

The case for innovation in converting processes using new approaches to develop or improve them: work processes, ideation, concept selection, and qualification.

• The case for innovation in converting processes using new approaches to develop or improve them.
• Defining the success goals and measures
• Work Processes (stage gate, Lean innovation, Design Thinking, etc.)
• Techniques for gaining Customer insights, Ideation, Concept Selection, Early Process Evaluation, Advanced Process Evaluation, Installation Qualification/Operational Qualification/Performance Qualification
• Other learning tools