COATING TECHNOLOGY
Black Bros. Co. provides equipment that incorporates the most advanced coating technology, that is custom designed for your specific needs. With over 125 years of experience in coating technology and development, combined with the best industry analysis, allows us to produce unique new features and advantages to benefit owners of Black Bros. machinery.



Black Bros. Co can help you with your adhesive coating application needs. We offer very precise, repeatable and durable adhesive coating applications to fit most processes. Roll Coaters can process any substrate that can be presented to the coating roll in a single plane. Therefore, regardless of the orientation of the substrate i.e.: vertical or horizontal, we can configure a coater to apply the adhesive coating.
Web coating is the process of applying a coating to a continuous strip of material. Many products utilize Black Bros. Web Coaters and Laminators such as carpet, fabric and foam, packaging, extruded plastics, cork and paper. Coatings can range from adhesives
to paint along with other liquid chemical treatments for specific industrial substrates. Size, speed, web path and tension control will all be engineered by Black Bros. for your specific application. Components of a web coating line may include unwinders, one or more coaters, hot or cold Roll Laminators and rewinds, as well as other processing equipment.
Is your project out of the ordinary? Black Bros. Co. experienced engineering resources analyze customer requirements to insure straightforward design, manufacture, installation and operation of both standard and custom machines. This engineering staff can design and integrate equipment and coating in a wide variety of processes and applications. From automotive to fabric, Black Bros. can engineer and customize a machine to your specific specification.
Black Bros. Co. units are designed to allow for very flexible integrations of manufacturing steps required. We can create your customized system. Integration of machines by your engineers or ours, can be included in projects by third party integrators.
Black Bros. Co. can assist you in the selection of equipment engineered to apply consistent laminating pressure to your product. Continuous or batch process models are available. Pressing equipment can be built to different levels of accuracy and different levels of laminating pressure. Black Bros. offers a wide range of sizes, regardless of rigid or flexible products.
Put Black Bros. Co. experience to work for you. We can assist you with finding the correct auxiliary equipment for your specific process or processes. Coating thicknesses from 1 micron to 80 wet mills. Black Bros. Co. offers machines and tools to assist in the handling of both your product in fluids and coating. Consider other features for cutting or orienting your product overlay.
Black Bros. Co. can assist you in selecting material handling applications. There are options available for both flexible and rigid substrates, as well as a wide range of speeds to choose from. Please contact Black Bros. at 815-539-7451 to discuss your material handling specifications.
Black Bros. Co. can help you choose a laminating press that will keep you on track. From web to web, web to rigid or hot to cold, we offer a wide range of adhesives to fulfill your specific laminating process. Please contact Black Bros. Co. at 815-539-7451 for your specific laminating application.
Black Bros. Co. continuously develops new configurations of the grooved applicator roll for Adhesive Spreaders. Our experience and broad range of Industrial Adhesive Spreaders offers customers a great deal of confidence in developing solutions to their adhesive application problems. A typical adhesive spreader might apply 6 wet mils of PVA adhesive to an engineered wood substrate. But other machines can apply much finer of much heavier weights of a wide range of high tech bonding products.