Investment boosts medical coatings capacity    

Raleigh Coatings, a leading UK specialist in medical adhesive coatings, has made a £500,000 investment to build a new Class 7 clean-room facility complete with a dedicated silicone gel adhesive coating line, in response to growing demand for its coating services from the healthcare sector.

In the planning since 2010, construction of the facility and commissioning of the bespoke ‘three zone’ clean line realises an investment for the £5.0M turnover company of in excess of £500,000.

Scheduled for operation initially for eight hours per five day week, plans are to increase production to 24/7.

It is capable of producing over one million metre square of adhesive coated products per annum.

Raleigh works extensively in the field of medical adhesive coating and is a specialist contract coater in the sector. Offering a lab-bench through to final production service for silicone gel, aqueous and solvent based coatings it is one of a few organisations in the UK to offer a specialist pilot line facility, enabling customers to test coatings prior to moving to full production.