AIMCAL Names 2019 John Matteucci Award Winners For Best Technical-Paper Presentations At R2R Conference USA
October 14, 2019
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.