Germany-based Coatema, founded in 1974, is a PV equipment company that designs and produces Sheet-to-Sheet and Roll-to-Roll equipment for the coating, printing and laminating sectors. Among its products are roll-to-roll processing solutions that cover the whole range from lab or pilot to production scale and are suitable for flexible organic, perovskite, and dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC) technologies.
The largest in this line of PV roll-to-roll products is Click&Coat, a model with working web widths of 300 mm, 500 mm and 1,000 mm. It is designed to be customized with over 30 different process modules, including dryer, laminator, laser process, cutting, and quality control equipment.
For coating alone, there are over 20 modules available, including gravure, doctor blade, slot die coating, rotary screen, curtain coating, and screenprinting. As for drying, the company offers further choices, such as hot air, infrared, UV crosslinking, and jet drying.
The equipment is in use at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia, as well as Organic Electronics Technologies (OET) in Greece where the OPV manufacturer is developing solutions for agrivoltaics, automotive, and building material markets. Other PV industry customers are located in Brazil, North America, and Europe.
Two smaller roll-to-roll systems are also available from Coatema: the Easycoater for sheet-to-sheet printing in A4 and A0 standard sizes, and the Smartcoater with web widths up to 300 mm, suitable for laboratory or small pilot production.
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