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IPC 1100
Environmentally friendly PVD chrome plating for security printing
Intaglio Plates Coater (IPC) is the line of machines specifically dedicated to security printing.
Two IPC models were designed to meet customer requirements based on productivity characteristics.
IPC 1100 differs from IPC 700 mainly in the chamber size and the technologies that can be installed.
The environmentally friendly chrome-plating process is fully automated, using high-energy evaporation sources combined with a plasma environment in which a multilayer nano-film is deposited.
Plates to be chrome-plated are loaded onto a patented rotating drum enclosed in a vacuum chamber with maintenance-free magnetic levitation vacuum pumps and ion evaporation sources.
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Advantages
- No chemical liquids contaminated with chromium to dispose of
- Extended plate life, higher surface hardness and superior wear resistance
- Low coefficient of friction
- No reduction in the modulus of elasticity of the base material
- Very good uniformity and reproducibility
- Customised process, designed for intaglio plates
- Fully automatic process
- Accurate process monitoring
- Historical database of processes for quality control
- Dies for proof/currency coins
- Mechanical components
- Other applications
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Characteristics
Useful volume ᴓ 970mmx1100mm
Inner chamber dimensions ᴓ 1760x1600mm
Made entirely of stainless steel
Removable multi-rotation turntable
With removable shields
Industry 4.0 software
Technologies
Mechanical dry pumps
Turbomolecular pumps
Sources
No. of installable evaporation sources: 4
LDE Cathodic Arc
Magnetron Sputtering (on request)
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Control
Industrial computer with diagnostic features
Maximum gas flow meters
Safety System
Numerous safety interlocks to protect operators and the system.
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