December 2022
As we approach the end of the year, Gencoa would like to wish all our customers and partners a Happy Christmas and much success and good luck for the year ahead. As the world is able to come back to normality, we look forward to seeing many more of you in person again in 2023.
Gencoa will be closed during the week commencing December 26, reopening on January 3rd 2023.
This edition of the newsletter includes an update on our work relating to antimicrobial coatings, news of a new agent appointment, and a video highlighting the key features of Gencoa's Optix process gas analysis instrument.
Gencoa's development of a new coatings for antimicrobial resistance has been summarized in a case study released by the Infection Innovation Consortium, an organisation supporting innovative collaborations between industry and academic-based partners in the development of new treatments.
Laboratory testing of the Gencoa biocidal coatings at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) demonstrated a complete kill of problematic 'ESCAPE' pathogens within 15 minutes. Innovate UK is providing funding for a 2-year trial to install biocidal surfaces within the newly opened Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Gencoa and Diamond Coatings will prepare coated parts and transparent touchscreen protectors for installation within the hospital and LSTM will compare the performance with unprotected surfaces.
With major industry conferences and exhibitions safely welcoming participants back to in-person events, 2022 has been a busy year of event participation for Gencoa. From local UK-based events, to events sitatuated thousands of miles away in each direction, it has been a positive year of being able to once again meet with customers both new and old.
2023 promises to deliver an equally packed calendar, with confirmed attendances at UK and overseas events including SVC TechCon, one of the annual highlights of the vacuum industry.
Further exhibit and conference details will be circulated in the New Year and pulished online at www.gencoa.com/events.
Gencoa are delighted to welcome Megatech to our network of agents and international sales representatives. Megatech have been established since 1973 and provides a range of their own and 3rd party components within the vacuum market. The company has a particularly strong presence within the UK semiconductor sector and will demonstrate and support our deposition, gas sensing and control products in 'semi'.
Megatech recently exhibited at the Photonex UK event where Technical Director Alan Hassel gave a talk on moisture control and measurement in vacuum at the associated technical seminar.
Visit www.gencoa.com/worldwide-contacts for a full listing of UK and overseas representatives.
With lots of 'talk' about Industry 4.0 / digitisation and a global shortage of skilled technical staff, new tools that provide data and enhanced automation are essential. Sensors that can provide process data and automatically respond to improve yields form the basis of our sensors and feedback control systems. In particular, emphasis is on low maintenance and robustness; if sensors are to be relied upon to improve performance, their own performance needs to be relied upon and guaranteed at all times. This is the strength of the Optix and VACGAS-G16 sensors, both of which are industrially-robust and require minimal maintenance.
Optix uses a remote plasma emission monitoring concept to generate a small plasma within the sensor head which is analyzed by its built-in spectrometer located outside of the vacuum. Through sophisticated software, the light spectrum is automatically interpreted, providing quantitative measurements of the presence and partial pressures of gases within the vacuum.
The product is well-suited to a range of vacuum and etch applications as well as PVD and ALD deposition methods. Optix can perform in more chemically 'rich' environments such as CVD and OLED production with some additional protection - a purging of the plasma head.
Click the image below for a video highlighting the key product features of Optix.
The VACGAS-G16 sensor has been created to provide a stable detection of group 16 gases; O2, S, Se. Close control of the Lambda sensor head ensures fast and stable operation with the ability to convert the voltage signal into a calibrated gas partial pressure (pre-calibrated at Gencoa). Whilst it is limited in gas types, it is a very stable and lower-cost detector, so is a valuable tool for excess oxygen partial pressure measurement for feedback control systems.
For further product information or to request a quote for either of the products covered above, contact sales@gencoa.com.
For product information or support, contact sales@gencoa.com or visit www.gencoa.com/worldwide-contacts to find contact details of international support staff and sales agents.
