Test Centre
Further develop your processes or experiment with new ones at our dedicated customer test centre.
Come test your products and processes
If you’re like us and have a curious nature why not come and test out our customer test centre.
Our dedicated research and development centre gives you the opportunity to test out new coatings and materials, improve existing products or experience Spooners capabilities. With years of web handling experience and dryer knowledge, our team can work with you to optimise your processes, improve web stability and uniform heat transfer.
With years of process experience, our team will work with you to explore new possibilities.
- Develop concept ideas into new technology and test new products
- Test our Spooner technology and capabilities
- Improve current processes
- Hire for customer trials
- Toll coating/contact coating services.
Our Facility
We are fully equipped to help you make your processes even better
Our test centre offers everything needed to develop and test products.
Our facilities include:
- Reel-to-Reel high-speed coating and laminating line equipped with air flotation drying
- Hand Sample pilot dryer
- Through Air (TAD) pilot dryer
Typical coating techniques:
- Direct & Reverse Gravure – Chambered doctor blade
- Offset Gravure
- Chambered Doctor Blade
- Trailing Doctor Blade
- 3 Roll Hydrophilic (Chrome roll)
- Three Roll Reverse
- Size Press Simulation
Applications
- Coating and drying pressure sensitive adhesive onto paper and films
- Coating, drying and curing paints onto aluminium foil or steel sheet
- Coating lotions onto tissue papers
- Coating and drying water-based solutions onto PET & BOPP films
- Moisturising and de-curling of papers
- Coating and drying barrier coatings onto board
