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Excelitas Technologies Corp. has published these technical articles:

(Light Sources)
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Designing and manufacturing UV Resonance Absorption Spectroscopy (UV-RAS) air emissions monitoring instruments has been difficult in the past due to challenges in tuning the UV-lamp operation with its...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, one of the world’s leading electric guitar manufacturers, needed to decrease the cycle time on their guitar body undercoat line in their Corona, CA...
(Industrial Heaters and Heating Elements)
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Laminates or decorative foils for furniture, windows or doors are often based on a plastic film which is embossed with a wood grain. The heart of an embossing line is the heating of the plastic web...
(Industrial Heaters and Heating Elements)
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Finishing line production bottlenecks often occur as a result of increasing production demands, where the existing convection drying oven can no longer keep pace. This article discusses how an...
(Light Sources)
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Technology and market trends are prompting industrial print production managers to consider UV LED inkjet printing to improve their product identification and decorating operations. The combination of...
(Industrial Heaters and Heating Elements)
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How long is the operating life of an infrared (IR) emitter? How do you define "Operating Life"? How do you measure it? And what influences the operating life in practice? These are questions we are...
(Industrial Heaters and Heating Elements)
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There is no question that the reduction of solvent emissions within VOC guidelines is a very important goal throughout the finishing industry. However, at the same time, competitive pressures in the...
(Manufacturing Equipment and Components)
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Commercial use of UV LED curing technology, used for instantly "drying" inks, coatings, and adhesives, is advancing at a rapid pace due to improvements in energy output and increasing availability UV...
(Medical)
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Coating a catheter with a hydrophilic coating allows the catheter to easily travel through the body. Learn why medical device manufacturers are using UV-curable coatings for their catheter coating...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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The applications of UV technology in metal finishing vary widely from shafts and cylinders to complex shapes, such as portable propane gas cylinders, hydraulic cylinders, motor assemblies, oil...
(Manufacturing Equipment and Components)
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UV curing is widely used by manufacturers to instantly "dry" inks, coatings, and adhesives via a polymerization process. Manufacturers in industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics, medical...
(Web Handling and Processing Equipment)
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UV LED curing technology advances now enable applications, like converting, which require faster production speeds to become feasible. This article provides process design and development engineers...
(Medical)
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Manufacturers of a wide variety of medical products such as syringes, catheters, hearing aids, dialysis machines, medication patches, hydrogels, filters, test strips, etc. find UV curing of coatings,...
(Coating Services and Finishing Services)
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UV curing of coatings and paint on three dimensional (3D) complex shaped parts can be a challenge because UV curing is "line-of-sight", meaning that every point on a surface must see the UV energy to...
(Electronics and Microelectronics Manufacturing)
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Many electronics manufacturers, PCB assemblers, and electronics manufacturing service (EMS) providers are using UV curing for conformal coating printed circuit boards (PCBs). As a result these...
(Electronics and Microelectronics Manufacturing)
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Spot curing is ideal for precision curing of a small diameter area, up to about 10 mm, either manually or in an automated process. In electronics applications spot curing is commonly used for bonding...