Opening of Empa’s Coating Competence

At Empa's new Coating Competence Center, which has just opened, tailor-made surface technologies find their way from the research labs to marketable industrial applications. The center boasts diverse coating systems for hard coats, flexible photovoltaics and organic electronics, not to mention 3D printers for metallic and bio-composite materials. In terms of process technology, the equipment is on an industrial scale, but it contains modifications that enable the researchers to conduct detailed process analyses. This should make the upscaling easier for Swiss industry and give it an innovative edge among the international competition. On Thursday, April 7, Empa's new Coating Competence Center (CCC) was inaugurated in the presence of 130 guests from industry and politics. The CCC should provide answers to fresh challenges that Switzerland's mechanical engineering, electrical and coating industry will face in the near future. To survive on the global markets, an increasing number of tailored solutions are called for.