Michelman has invested in new digital
imaging technology that allows chemists to view coating and substrate samples
at nano-level magnification. The new
technology is part of Michelman’s investment in the Michelman Advanced
Materials Collaboration Center that was officially opened on October 2, 2014 at
the company’s global headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The new state-of-the-art imaging technology
is not widely available in the packaging coatings and specialty chemicals
industries, and allows Michelman to quickly and thoroughly analyze surface
characteristics that are critical to development of successful coating systems
for paper board, corrugated, flexible packaging, wood, metal, plastic, concrete
and numerous other industrial applications.
The information gathered includes high resolution 3-D and topographical
views using non-destructive sample preparation and roughness measurements. Multiple samples can be quickly recorded and
compared using various analysis modes.
The rich information and wealth of data are then used to trouble shoot,
improve or develop coating technologies.
According to Robert Turnbull, Global
Technology Manager, Printing & Packaging, “Our new digital imaging
technology is allowing us to help customers troubleshoot problem formulations,
and bring effective new or reformulated products to market faster than ever
before. Analysis that was previously
impossible, or that took weeks to perform can now be done in a fraction of the
time compared to Scanning Electron Microscopy or other high resolution
techniques.”
