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Technologies & Manufacturing Solutions You Will Experience

Coating Technologies

Explore advanced coating technologies for functional materials and discover how coating processes can be optimized for consistent quality, improved performance and reliable industrial-scale production.

Converting & Finishing

Experience complete converting and finishing workflows featuring compact, automated equipment designed to increase productivity, reduce setup times and support flexible manufacturing. 

Drying & Curing

Learn how advanced drying and curing technologies contribute to process stability, energy efficiency and the successful transition from laboratory development to commercial production. 

Inspection & Automation

Discover how intelligent inspection, inline quality control and production automation help manufacturers improve repeatability, minimise waste and achieve greater confidence in every production run. 

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Participation is
free of charge 

There is no registration fee to attend the event, and all meals and refreshments during the event are included. Participants only need to cover their own travel and accommodation expenses.

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Technologies & Manufacturing Solutions You Will Experience

coating

Coating Technologies

Explore advanced coating technologies for functional materials and discover how coating processes can be optimized for consistent quality, improved performance and reliable industrial-scale production.

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Converting & Finishing

Experience complete converting and finishing workflows featuring compact, automated equipment designed to increase productivity, reduce setup times and support flexible manufacturing. 

Curing

Drying & Curing

Learn how advanced drying and curing technologies contribute to process stability, energy efficiency and the successful transition from laboratory development to commercial production. 

inspection

Inspection & Automation

Discover how intelligent inspection, inline quality control and production automation help manufacturers improve repeatability, minimise waste and achieve greater confidence in every production run. 

REGISTER FOR INDUSTRY DAY 2026

Meet the Technology Partners

 Meet leading technology providers, equipment manufacturers and research organisations working at the forefront of functional materials manufacturing. Explore their solutions, exchange ideas and discuss practical approaches to industrial production and process scale-up. 

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Built on Decades of Engineering Expertise

GM Functionals brings together decades of engineering expertise and more than ten years of experience in turnkey roll-to-roll coating systems. By combining our heritage in converting and finishing with continuous innovation, we help customers bridge the gap between laboratory development and reliable industrial production. 

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Insights on Industry Day speakers

 

Marcus Klein

Marcus Klein is Managing Director of SURAGUS GmbH, where he works with advanced non-contact measurement and inspection technologies for thin films and functional materials. He holds a degree in Business and Engineering from TU Dresden, with a focus on microelectronics and electronic packaging, and has previous experience with Siemens, Wacker Chemie, the Advanced Mask Technology Center and Fraunhofer. His expertise spans material characterization, thin-film measurement and the integration of inline monitoring into industrial production processes.

Hindrik de Vries

 Hindrik de Vries is System Architect at SALD B.V. and has more than 20 years of experience in thin-film deposition, plasma technology and roll-to-roll processing. His work spans the development of plasma sources, atmospheric-pressure deposition and spatial atomic layer deposition, with a strong focus on increasing coating speed while maintaining high-quality functional layers. Today, his work at SALD focuses on bringing spatial ALD into scalable sheet-to-sheet and roll-to-roll production for applications including photovoltaics and other energy technologies. 

Morten Madsen

Morten Madsen is Professor and Head of the Center for Advanced Photovoltaics and Thin-film Energy Devices (SDU CAPE) at the University of Southern Denmark. He holds a PhD in Functional Materials and Nanotechnology and has worked within advanced materials and thin-film technologies for more than 15 years, including research at UC Berkeley.
 
At SDU CAPE, he leads research into solar energy conversion and storage, including organic, hybrid and oxide solar cells. A central part of his work is the Lab-2-Fab approach, bridging high-performance laboratory research with large-scale manufacturing under industrial conditions using roll-to-roll processing.