Better Treatment

Based on purchasing criteria that focused on performance, value, and cost, Green Bay Packaging selected Enercon's Dyne-A-Mite IT™ Elite blown-ion air plasma surface treater. The in-line system includes four treating heads that can be mounted above the company's various folder/gluers.

Enercon's atmospheric plasma treater pretreats the carton flaps prior to gluing by cleaning the surface of contaminants, micro-roughening the surface to create more bonding sites, and functionalizing it for adhesion. The key to success is a blown-ion discharge that bombards the surface with a high-speed discharge of ions. Positive ion bombardment provides micro-etching or scrubbing (ablation) to remove (desorb) organic and inorganic contaminants from the surface.