Advanced materials company, AeonClad Coatings has reported the expansion of a new state-of-the-art research and development facility situated in Austin, Texas.
The new facility will enable AeonClad Coatings to illustrate the ways of adapting semiconductor plasma processing equipment and techniques to deal with a broad set of materials with different sizes and shapes such as novel drug formulations, consumer apparel, and powdered plastic additives. One of the company’s key industry partners played a key role in this expansion with a multi-million dollar investment.
Besides providing an additional 12,000-square-foot research and development space to AeonClad Coatings, the new facility will be utilized for material performance testing, efficiency and reliability assessments, and proof-of-concept design studies to develop novel reactors. The reactors will be equipped with semiconductor plasma processing technologies to run inexpensive materials in high volume, thus enabling high accuracy, low environmental effects, and cutting-edge features that were impossible with older technologies.
The design and prototype development of the novel reactors will be supportable for customers’ current and future development efforts in industrial and consumer materials. According to Tony Taylor, President at AeonClad Coatings, the company has established a link between the research and development activities at its laboratories in Austin’s Bee Caves and the full-scale production at its New Mexico site through this expansion at the north Austin facility.
AeonClad Coatings is Emergent Technologies’ portfolio company. The company offers nanocoating solutions to a myriad of industries. However, it focuses on industrial and consumer materials at its north Austin facility.
Emergent Technologies’ Chief Executive Officer, Thomas A. Harlan stated that the new facility will reinforce AeonClad’s dominance in the research and production of novel materials applications for existing and future industry partners who seek to strengthen core businesses, distinguish their products, and augment their market share.