Moderator: Liz Josephson (VP of Commercial Operations, INTELLIVATION LLC)

Event Description: Roll-to-Roll (R2R) coating promises “economy of scale” for a myriad of high-volume applications, whether it is barrier layers for food packaging or flexible electronics. In many cases, the end use does not actually require “flexibility” – think of displays – nor a start-to-finish roll-to-roll process – think of sheet-based chip attached for hybrid electronics – to still make R2R a convincing manufacturing approach. However, experience and detailed knowledge is required to avoid costly failures and reap the full benefits of this powerful yet sometimes “mysterious” manufacturing methodology.

This Colloquium will examine the opportunities and challenges of R2R manufacturing processes, and will touch on substrate considerations, coating material options (vacuum- or wet-coating), issues like multi-pass, lamination and singulation operations and other critical topics that are crucial to successful production.

The interactive nature of this moderated panel discussion welcomes questions from the audience that may be addressed by a panel of subject matter experts, or in discussion with other practitioners in the audience.

We invite you to bring your questions, challenges or success stories that help take the “mystery” out of this powerful high-volume manufacturing methodology!

Panelists:

• Andy Jack (Sales Director, Emerson & Renwick Ltd)
• Joe Papalia (President, DTI Films)
• Mike Simmons (President & CEO, INTELLIVATION LLC)
• Chris Stoessel (Innovation Consultant and Partner, Stoessel Consulting/SputterTek LLC)