Archipelago Technology Group Ltd

Wouldn't it be great if all the food we buy packaged in plastic was packaged in paper? Plastic is not sustainable and is difficult to recycle. Paper on the other hand comes from the never-ending supply of well managed forests and is recycled and reused every day. But there is a problem with paper in food packaging. Food is often soggy or fatty and paper o...

Everything we buy is coated or painted. Cars, furniture, flooring, soft drink cans are all coated. Usually with many layers of paint and usually using a paint sprayer. Paint spraying is surprisingly wasteful. Typically only half the paint sprayed lands on the intended target. The other half goes into the air. Industrial coatings companies normally collect...

SmartDrop is a digitally connected additive manufacturing process capable of building up valuable products from a range of industrially useful materials. These include organic materials such as resins and adhesives and inorganic materials as used in cements and glazes. Archipelago's vision for this project is to move SmartDrop from the current MRL 3 to MR...

HotDrop is a broadly applicable digital manufacturing platform for clean, high volume surface engineering and coating. It enables non-contact, drop-on-demand deposition of hot melt materials including adhesives. It will be used in digital manufacturing applications where there is a need to produce patterned layers of hot melt materials. A key strength is ...

Powerdrop is a breakthrough technology for precision deposition of viscous, industrial materials in clean, high volume, high value manufacturing. As it can deposit virtually any material with precision, and at speed, it is applicable to the wide range of end user industries and applications where existing coating techniques like spraying have high levels ...

Archipelago Technology Group’s Power Drop Technology is a new means of depositing liquids in which the deposition rate is significantly higher than other means of droplet ejection such as inkjet. The technology will also have applications for jetting viscous fluids. Inkjet technologies have been extremely successful for high resolution colour imaging in a...

The aim of project The Agile Foundry (TAF) is to combine microfluidic synthetic methodologies with state-of-the-art digital dispensing technology thus creating tools that enable rapid, highly versatile, nanostructured ink formulation and printing to take place on one device eliminating the need for shipment and storage of intermediates. In the first insta...