Generator and treatment head
Plasma curtain
A continuous plasma curtain across a full width, to treat panels, sheets or webs as they pass. Seven widths from 60 to 500 mm, 1 to 6 kW, for surfaces a nozzle cannot sweep within the cycle time.
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- First reply within 48 working hours, from an engineer, not from an automated form.
- Rental available — test the assumption on your own site before committing to the investment.
- Laboratory in Québec City — your samples are treated and characterised here.
- Quoted to specification, with no commitment. We say so plainly if plasma is not the right answer.
Technical datasheet — 2 pages, PDF
Dimensioned footprint, required utilities, protocols. To pass on to your integrator.
To compare, or to complete
The machines our clients look at alongside this one, and the consumable that checks the result.
Whole surface
Surface source
A discharge spread across the whole electrode, treating flat parts and flexible films uniformly. No sweeping, so no over-treated band.
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Precise area
Compact torch
A nozzle that blows plasma straight onto the area to be treated, a few millimetres from the part. The most common way to activate a precise area.
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A treatment you do not measure is not a process. The calibrated ink tells you in seconds whether the surface has passed the target threshold.
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Film deposition
Deposition station
When activating is no longer enough: a 1 to 300 nm functional film deposited by atmospheric plasma, anti-corrosion or anti-scratch depending on the precursor.
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Automated station
Turnkey cell
An enclosed cell with a Cartesian robot, plasma source and safety interlocks. You program a path, the station replays it identically.
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Millimetre precision
Precision torch
Cold plasma with a millimetre footprint, for small-area samples and sensitive substrates. It also accepts a precursor.
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To specification
DBD reactor
No catalogue configuration fits? Our engineers design the reactor to your specification, dimensions and gases included.
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Your configuration is carried into the message. Add your part, your throughput and your material: you get the price, the lead time and the terms.
When this equipment is the right one
A nozzle treats a narrow band and has to sweep the surface; a curtain covers its full width. As soon as the width to treat exceeds a few centimetres and the throughput rules out several passes, sweeping becomes the limiting factor on cycle time. The curtain treats the full web width in a single pass, with the part or web running under the head.
A composite panel before bonding
The entire surface must be activated uniformly before laminating. Sweeping produces overlaps between passes, and therefore over-treated areas.
A web in continuous運 motion
The treatment has to keep up with line speed without limiting throughput. The curtain is sized on the width of the web, not its length.
Sheets at high throughput
Several hundred parts per hour, each having to receive the same treatment. The head is fixed, so no sweeping motion introduces variation from one part to the next.
How it works
What happens at the surface, and what that means for your line.
The source produces a discharge spread across the full width of the treatment head. The part or web passes beneath this curtain: every point on the surface receives the same exposure, with no overlap and no missed area.
The width is chosen on the real working width of your parts, from seven values between 60 and 500 mm. That choice then determines the power needed, and therefore the type of generator — single-phase or three-phase.
The figures
The values to check before quoting, plus the document to pass on to your integrator.
What to plan for on your side
The values an integrator asks for before quoting: footprint, utilities, extraction and protocols.
Equipment that does not talk to your PLC stays an isolated station. Before any order, we validate with you the real constraints of your line : protocol, footprint, available utilities and extraction.
These values are indicative and are confirmed at the process study stage, on the configuration actually retained.
- Floor footprint
- [x] mm
- Mass of the assembly
- [y] kg
- Extraction required
- [z] m³/h
- Protocols available
- [x]
- Cable lengths
- 3, 5 or 7 m
- Indicative lead time
- [y] weeks
What we have already treated
What is qualified in the laboratory, and what the machine costs once in service: consumables, maintenance, warranty.
Materials qualified in the laboratory : [x].
Your material is not on the list ? That is the most common case. Send us three samples : we treat them, we characterise them, and you receive a costed answer within 48 hours.
- Electrode service life
- [y] h
- Replacement cost
- [z] $
- Preventive maintenance
- [x]
- Warranty
- [y]
- Rental possible
- yes
Before you write to us
The questions we are asked most often, answered before you have to ask them.
How do I know whether this equipment suits my part ?
By sending it to us. We treat your samples in our Quebec City laboratory and you receive a costed answer within 48 hours : surface energy before and after, the parameters retained, and our frank opinion if plasma is not the right answer to your problem.
Can it be rented before buying ?
Yes. Rental serves to validate a production hypothesis on your site, with your parts and your operators, before committing to an investment. Terms : [x].
What documents do you provide for a customer audit ?
The corresponding process file : the plasma parameters retained, characterisation methods, validation results on your parts and operating procedures. For regulated markets, the level of documentation is adapted to your sector's requirements.
And if no configuration fits ?
Our engineers then design the reactor to specification : dimensions, gases, controllers, interface, sized on your material and your throughput. See the custom reactors →
What this equipment lets you do
Send us a part.
The quickest way to find out whether the plasma curtain suits your process is to let us treat your material. 48 hours for a first answer, no commitment.
Answer within 48 hours. No commitment. A technical discussion with an expert.