Paper Chemicals Capabilities.
Pilot Coater Tops the List.

Customers benefit from OMNOVA Solutions' highly collaborative research, development, trialing and optimization resources. A key capability is the new product development support we can provide through our state-of-the-art, high-speed pilot coater located at the OMNOVA Solutions Technology Center in Akron, Ohio.

We can create a new product for you in our lab, scale it up in our plant and then run trials on our pilot coater. You can achieve established quality standards with your base sheet, reduce grade development time, and explore new applications and technologies – all without tying up your valuable in-house resources.

The pilot coater accommodates wide-width paper rolls and operates at up to 6,000 feet per minute. Coating options include rigid and bent blade, conventional and metered size press, airknife and rod. A variety of drying and finishing processes are also offered. Online analysis can help you measure performance against your critical requirements, to quickly evaluate gloss, coat weight and moisture, for example.

Technology Leadership

The success of OMNOVA in the marketplace is due in large part to our broad research and development capabilities, carried out at our R&D center in Akron, Ohio. Our technical team includes renowned paper industry scientists and applications experts.

In addition, we are able to leverage global resources for coating studies and paper/paperboard testing at technical labs in Akron, Ohio and Shanghai, China.

Customer Focus Mentality

We have enthusiastically embraced a LEAN SixSigma operating approach to focus our efforts on projects that are of value to you, the customer. “LEAN” thinking enables the elimination of waste (defined as actions that are not valued by the customer), and SixSigma statistical tools help dramatically reduce process variation (typically the source of most quality problems).