With the presentation of the first Inventor Award, Bobst has now recognised an employee for a ground-breaking invention that he developed within the company.
The recipient of the first Bobst Inventor Award is Nick Copeland, Director of R&D at Bobst Manchester. He receives the prize for his work on the AluBond patent, which was granted in the UK in 2019. AluBond is regarded as ground-breaking and, thanks to its Vacuum metallisation high metal adhesion and high surface energy levels.
„After a careful selection process, the decision committee agreed that Nick deserved to be the first recipient of this award. His work on this patent has clearly benefited both Bobst and our customers. AluBond is a truly outstanding invention, which solves a relatively common problem for our customerspoor metal adhesion due to coating delamination. The positive feedback from our customers emphasises the importance of Nick's work.“
Alexandre Pauchard, Head of Group R&D at Bobst
In future, the Bobst Inventor Award will be presented each year to inventors from the company - regardless of where they are in their career - whose patented work has had the most positive impact for the company and its customers from the company's point of view.
[infotext info]The Bobst AluBond-process is an inline hybrid coating technology that promotes chemical anchoring of the first aluminium particles and thus creates a metallising starting layer with excellent bond strength. It has been proven to achieve significantly higher metal bond strength and metal adhesion on the most common substrates (PET, BOPP, CPP and PE) during vacuum metallisation.„It is an honour for me to receive the first BOBST Inventor Award. It's great to work for a company that encourages and supports new ideas and thereby promotes innovation. I would like to thank all my colleagues who were involved in the AluBond patent. I hope that together we can contribute to many more innovations and bring significant benefits to our customers“ businesses."
Nick Copeland, Director of R&D at Bobst Manchester
„We rely on Inventiveness and ingenuity, to find new solutions for our customers. Therefore, it is only appropriate to recognise the pioneers whose inventions are the foundation of a stronger patent portfolio for our company. We will continue to work for Creativity and lateral thinking wherever they can be found in our company.“
Alexandre Pauchard, Head of Group R&D at Bobst
Source: Bobst
