Metal webs

SIDRABE Inc. has got significant expertise in the development and manufacture of vacuum equipment for coating metal foils and strips. By present, we posses technologies like deposition of:
  • Se, Si, St. St., Ti, Cu, Ni, Al, Zn, Mg, TiN onto steel strip
  • Al and Cd coating onto nickel strip
  • Cu onto aluminum foil
  • Various metal and alloys onto copper strip.

The Company accumulated unique skills in the production of so-called free metal foils by vacuum deposition methods:

  • mercury-doped magnesium foils
  • copper and titanium foils
  • foils of titanium alloys.

For commercial realization of the above processes our engineers developed and embodied specific designs of:

  • electric arc and electron beam evaporators
  • sputtering magnetrons
  • induction and resistive evaporators.

A special emphasis should be made on the invention of effective vapor generators for sublime metals like Mg and Zn with vapor utilization factor close to 1.0.

Applications: batteries, anodes of oscillating tubes, antirust coatings, catalysts, fuel cells, electrode materials, absorber coating for solar collectors.

Lithium pilot coater
SIDRABE's technology of Lithium deposition onto metal foils and polymer films reveals new horizons for battery makers.

PECVD pilot coater
Pilot continuous PECVD coater, where functional coatings are applied onto metal foil, became our background for gas-phase processes realization.

EB-evaporation coater
Our latest development in this area is a commercial Web Coater, where functional coatings are deposited onto metal foils or plastic webs with EB guns.