AIMCAL Names 2019 John Matteucci Award Winners For Best Technical-Paper Presentations At R2R Conference USA

October 14, 2019 Off By Sebastian Reisig

This year’s best technical-paper presentations for web coating and vacuum web coating were honored last Wednesday night at the 2019 AIMCAL R2R Conference USA, held at the Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort in Myrtle Beach, SC. The four-day program drew more than 300 attendees from across the globe to hear 80+ technical presentations on solution, extrusion and vacuum coating, as well as web handling. For the sixth year, the event was held in conjunction with the Society of Plastics Engineers (Flexible Packaging Div.)’s annual FlexPackCon® technical & marketing conference.

The annual John Matteucci Award winners were:

Technical Excellence Award for Best Vacuum Coating Paper: Dr. Robert Malay of Vacuum Depositing, Inc., for “Utilizing Plasmon Mediated Constructive Interference for Selective Wavelength Reflection with Roll-to-Roll Physical Vapor Deposition.”
Honorable Mention for Best Paper: Dr. Michael Muecke of Buhler Leybold Optics, for “Application Update in R2R Vacuum Coating.”

Technical Excellence Award for Best Web Coating Paper: Daniyel Firestone of Norstone, Inc., for “The Dynamics of Dispersing and Mixing.”
Honorable Mention for Best Paper: Dragen Djurdjanovic of the University of Texas-Austin for 
“Physical Analytics for Transformation of Semiconductor Manufacturing Data into Information and Decisions.” 
Honorable Mention for Best Paper: Stan Farnsworth of NovaCentrix for “Photonic Curing of R2R Environment (In-line Photonic Curing).”

The 2020 AIMCAL R2R Conference USA will be held Oct. 18-21, 2020, in Orlando, FL.