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What do pharmaceutical, food, electronic and designer apparel products have in common? All are at risk for tampering, counterfeiting, spoilage, theft and other brand-killing catastrophes. Security packaging is a fast-growing specialty field that addresses these risks for a wide range of industries and their consumers.
Sometimes special films and coatings are used to protect products and their users from a multitude of threats. These may be created as covert or overt structures. At Carestream Contract Manufacturing, we create multi-layer coating structures with special additives, colors and other features that can enhance the security of a package. FULL ARTICLE
Hundreds of coating methods have been developed to meet distinct product specification needs, providing a wide range of process and performance characteristics. This breadth is useful in addressing new products as well as for improving and upgrading cost and quality of existing products.
Carestream Contract Manufacturinghelps customers identify the best possible coatings for their needs. We evaluate coating formulations to fit a range of requisite parameters when choosing a coating method. Many of the coating methods we offer were developed as branded products by our predecessor companies 3M and Kodak; they are characterized by exacting precision and cleanliness required by photographic and similar processes.
Carestream Contract Manufacturing's experience with multi-layer PET films can be fully leveraged across a broad range of applications, from proofing films to adhesives and clinical diagnostic media components. Our PET film operation provides efficient scale-up from concept to production. We have experience with optical and photographic quality films, extrusion,
stretching, coating and conveyance technologies, as well as dimensionally stable low-shrink heat-relaxed films. Using our in-house equipment and process design expertise, we produce reliable PET film solutions in 4 to 10-mil thicknesses, in any color, and in custom sizes.
Carestream Contract Manufacturing offers precision contract coating services, specializing in the application of aqueous and solvent coatings on flexible substrates for a wide range of industrial, medical, electronic and other advanced materials applications. Our engineers and material scientists build on more than 100 years of coating leadership to deliver problem-solving expertise in precision coating applications, including fluid design and preparation. State-of-the-art pilot coaters also make Carestream an ideal partner for product development and rapid scale-up to large volume.
