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SINGULUS is a young company with a remarkable success story. Founded in 1995, producing only a stand-alone CD metallizer, the company grew to become the world's leading supp
SINGULUS 3DS
New Metallizer for the Decorative Coating
of 3-Dimensional Substrates
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES is one of the
few companies in the world with a core
competency in metallization of optical
discs. In its main market, SINGULUS and its
predecessor companies have built over
5000 metallizers. Due to this gained competence
the company has developed a new
form of metallizer for the fully automated
inline refinement of plastic substrates:
The SINGULUS 3DS. The first machine has
already been delivered to a key customer
and is currently being introduced into mass
production.
The new system is a revolutionary development
in the segment of PVD Surface Coating.
The SINGULUS 3DS Sputtering System
for the industrial coating of 3-dimensional
plastic parts is an integrated system with the
capability of vacuum coating both sides
of the material simultaneously. Major
application fields are the high-end coating in
the cosmetic, medical, pharmaceutical, consumer
electronic, consumer goods,
giveaways and automotive industry.
Reflective and coloration layers are the
key application ranges of this system which
is fully automatic.
The SINGULUS 3DS metallizer features
compact size and user-friendly operation.
It is specially designed for easy and fast
integration into any production workflow.
With high yield and high reliability, the system
continues the SINGULUS metallizer legacy.
The sputtering unit is equipped with the
latest generation of SMART Cathode ® developed
by SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES providing
a very high deposition rate and an adaptive
plasma positioning.
The real advantages to bring a sputtering
technology in these large and various
application fields is cost saving and higher
quality on the coating characteristics.
This technology has many advantages in
comparison to conventional coating
technologies such as galvanics or thermal
evaporation.
In comparison to electroplating, the
SINGULUS 3DS completely forgoes the use
of environmentally-harmful chemicals.
The elimination of high operating and waste