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Henniker Plasma

Name: Henniker Plasma
Address: 3 Berkeley Court, Manor Park, Runcorn, WA71TQ, GB
Telephone: +44 (0)1925 830 771

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Henniker Plasma is a leading manufacturer of plasma treatment systems for cleaning, surface activation to improve adhesion, and functional nano-scale coating.

Our innovative plasma treatment equipment is trusted globally in both critical industrial manufacturing settings and by leading academic research groups where it is used in biomedical research, life sciences, energy storage, filtration and many other areas of materials science in general.

13/10/2026

Introducing Altus, Henniker's new multi-nozzle atmospheric plasma system. Four to eight nozzles, each individually controlled from a single controller, treat up to 100mm in a single pass.

Built into your line. Multi-nozzle control.

Altus is a component, not a cell. It sits within your existing production line and runs from your PLC, so plasma activation becomes one more controlled step in a process you already run.

Individual nozzle control is what makes Altus so adaptable. A single nozzle can treat a tight radius or a localised feature, the full array can treat a wider area, and the same system can process up to eight separate parts at once.

🔗 Discover more about the Altus: https://buff.ly/ZztObMp
📩 Contact us to discuss your application: https://buff.ly/NaxD5hV

01/10/2026

Our Mental Health & Wellbeing Board has had a Halloween refresh! Filled with simple reminders that matter all year round.

Alongside it, there's a No Tricks, Just Treats Table, stocked with healthy snacks, sweet treats and warm drinks for the whole team throughout the month. And for some fun, everyone can take a guess in the Halloween Sweet Jar Challenge, with the closest guess taking home the lot!🍿🍬

As autumn arrives, it's a good moment to pause, reflect on the year so far and make time for the things that bring us a little joy.

A big thank you to our Mental Health First Aider, Sarah, for the thought and care behind this, and for helping make wellbeing part of everyday life at Henniker.

30/09/2026

New term, new projects. Is the surface ready?

When PDMS will not bond or a coating will not stick, the surface is usually too low in energy, or contaminated. Low-pressure plasma cleans at the molecular level and activates the surface, so liquids wet out and bonds hold.

From the HPT bench range to the fully automated Nova, it's the same plasma chemistry: start where your research is now, and scale as it grows. Little or no prior expertise needed.

Swipe through to see how it works, then bring us your samples. 👉

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25/09/2026

Adhesives, inks and coatings can only perform as well as the surface beneath them. Yet many engineering polymers are inherently resistant to bonding, and the reasons sit at the surface, long before the adhesive is ever applied.

Three reasons surfaces resist bonding:

🔹 Low surface energy
🔹 Surface contamination
🔹 Limited chemical functionality

Understanding why a surface resists adhesion is the first step to controlling it. Plasma surface treatment addresses all three: cleaning the surface, increasing its surface energy, and introducing the chemistry needed for a durable, repeatable bond.

Struggling with a bond that won't hold? Let's discuss your application: https://buff.ly/5XGKPtH

22/09/2026

Where does an ophthalmic lens actually perform? Rarely in the bulk optic. An intraocular lens sits in the eye for decades and a contact lens meets the tear film through every blink, so comfort and clarity come down to the outermost few nanometres.

CoatX®, our plasma-polymerised coating platform, tunes that surface without touching the optic. Lubril lowers friction for easier injector travel and on-eye comfort. SFE raises wettability to hold the tear film evenly. CovaBind covalently anchors biomolecules or active agents, reagent-free.

Keep the lens you want and engineer the surface separately. Developing an ophthalmic device? Trial a CoatX surface on your own components first.

🔍 Let's discuss your application: https://buff.ly/5XGKPtH

17/09/2026

Can cotton be print-ready without wet chemistry?

Metallic pigment printing on cotton usually starts with a multi-stage wet pre-treatment of scouring, bleaching and mordanting, which consumes large volumes of water and leaves chemical-laden wastewater behind.

In independent research at Heriot-Watt University, a single dry step replaced it. Using a Henniker HPT-200 vacuum plasma system with air alone at 200 W, three to five minutes of treatment made cotton wettable and print-ready:

✅ Water contact angle (bleached cotton): 94° → 65°
✅ Droplet pe*******on (bleached cotton): 61 s → 9 s
✅ Wash and rub colour fastness of the metallic print: 4–5 / 5

Read the full article: https://buff.ly/ArwFPKa

Image credit: Reprinted, from Sustainable Low-Pressure Air Plasma Pre-treatment for Metallic Pigment Printing on Cotton Fabrics: Improved Surface Functionality, Fastness Performance, and Reduced Environmental Burden, in Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (SSMS). Copyright 2026, ASTM International, www.astm.org, DOI: 10/1520/SSMS20260002.

16/09/2026

Cleaning and activating a surface are two different jobs. Plasma does both, and knowing which one your problem needs is the difference between a bond that holds and one that fails.

Cleaning removes what sits on the surface: hydrocarbons, oxides and processing residues, down to the molecular level. It fixes a surface that is contaminated.

Activation changes the surface itself. Plasma strips hydrogen from the surface and attaches oxygen-containing groups in its place, raising surface energy so liquids wet instead of bead. It fixes a surface that is inherently low-energy.

That second job is the one that catches people out with inert medical polymers. PEEK is not dirty, it is low-energy, so no amount of cleaning will make it bondable. It takes activation: a single plasma step drops the water contact angle from 86.6° to 6.6° and lifts surface energy from 48 to 80 mN/m, leaving a surface ready to bond, print or coat.

Before treating an adhesion failure as contamination, it is worth asking which job the surface actually needs.

Where is adhesion failing in your process? Let's talk: https://buff.ly/cLotDfn
Learn more about plasma treatment on PEEK: https://buff.ly/caMCjnB

15/09/2026

Why won't anything stick to PTFE?

PTFE, PFA and FEP are chosen precisely because nothing sticks to them: they are chemically inert and non-wetting, thanks to a very strong carbon-fluorine bond. That same chemistry gives PTFE a surface energy of only around 15 mN/m, far below the roughly 38 mN/m most adhesives need to wet a surface. So inks bead up, coatings peel and adhesives fail at the interface.

Standard oxygen plasma activates most polymers, but it cannot shift a fully fluorinated surface. Hydrogen plasma can. Atomic hydrogen strips fluorine from the surface, and the exposed carbon then picks up oxygen-containing functional groups on contact with air, leaving a wettable, carbon-rich surface.

The result, measured in our own Materials Library: surface energy rises from about 15 to 46 mN/m and the water contact angle falls from 114° to 86°, taking PTFE past the wetting threshold so inks, adhesives and coatings finally bond. Fluoropolymers recover their non-stick character slowly, so bonding soon after treatment gives the best results.

🔗 Working with PTFE or another fluoropolymer that won't take a coating or a bond? Let's discuss your application: https://buff.ly/08H1n8v

10/09/2026

Most functional surface coatings still rely on multi-step wet chemistry.

CoatX® does it in a single plasma step. The coating is covalently bonded, nano-scale and conformal, and it comes in three functional forms: Lubril, Covabind and SFE.

All three run on our Nova and Nebula vacuum plasma systems.

Learn more about Henniker's functional coatings: https://buff.ly/8wOR13o

09/09/2026

Everyone talks about plasma surface treatment. Fewer explain what plasma actually is.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter. Add enough energy to a gas and its molecules ionise, giving you a glowing, reactive mix of ions, electrons, UV light and excited atoms. That energetic soup reacts with any surface it touches, and it does four things: it cleans, activates, coats and etches. All at low temperature, so even heat-sensitive parts are fine.

At Henniker we put that to work three ways: vacuum systems for research and precision work, atmospheric systems for production lines, and CoatX nano-coatings for permanent functional surfaces, used across medical devices, industrial manufacturing and research.

Swipe through for the quick tour. And if a coating, print or bond is failing, tell us the material and the problem and we will tell you what plasma can do: https://buff.ly/cLotDfn

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3 Berkeley Court, Manor Park
Runcorn
WA71TQ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+44 (0)1925 830 771

Website

http://linktr.ee/hennikerplasma

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