Bring in the trouble shooters

Addressing the needs of a customer led to the invention of the actual corona technology – and the foundation of Danish corona supplier Vetaphone. Since then trouble shooting has been their trademark, and the innovations numerous.


If you are having just at little too much down time on your corona treater, if you can’t seem to get very far beyond that magic 450 m/min on metallic substrates, or if you just want to fine tune your production – then bring in the trouble shooters from Vetaphone. Chances are the Danes will both solve your problem and launch an entire new technology.

-We’re engineers. We live to invent, we thrive when we master new technologies – and we get a real kick out of trouble shooting. Even those of us with a degree in sales are engineers by heart. You have to be an engineer to work here, states Marketing Director, Jan Eisby, Vetaphone. He adds:

- Vetaphone was founded on trouble shooting, and it has been the bedrock of our culture ever since.


The birth of corona
In 1951 Verner Eisby, a young Danish engineer working in the emerging plastic industry, was presented with a problem. One of his clients, a renowned manufacturer of paper bags, had just invested in new equipment to enter the brand new world of plastic. It annoyed the client that it wasn’t possible to print text and logos on the new plastic bags. The ink just didn’t stick.

Young Verner put his mind to the problem, and in 195X he came up with the corona technology, patented it and founded Vetaphone, which initiated the World’s first production of corona treaters. The electrical discharge worked, but at the time nobody really knew how. It took chemists and nuclear scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen University years to come up with the scientific explanation.


No trumpeting
Since then Vetaphone has been all about coming up with solutions, refining and developing technologies within the area of surface treatment. And less about selling.

- We know we have the best products in the industry - honestly. Vetaphone’s Corona Plus lasts longer, has less down time and is easier to maintain than any other system on the market. If you look at the total cost of ownership, Vetaphone is what you’d choose. But we are not very good at trumpeting this to the World – we’re engineers, and our heads are mostly in the lab, smiles Jan Eisby.







Heads in the lab
With their heads mostly in the lab the two sons of Verner Eisby, Frank and Jan Eisby, are carrying on the family business. And the results have been substantial:

In 1999 the company launched their famous quick change cartridge system, which makes the process of cleaning the electrodes lightning quick - and almost eliminates down time due to maintenance.

In 2000 the engineers emerged from the lab with the DPC system – a cost saving device, which will enable your generator to run at very low power levels, and still deliver an even corona across the electrode.

In 2004 Vetaphone presented their new modular generator, which greatly minimises down time due to break down. The operator simply replaces the faulty module with a new, and then sends off the replaced module for repair. The system also makes it possible to upgrade the generator to yield higher effects.



In 2005 the DPH system was born from Vetaphone’s lab – making it possible to get production speed well beyond 450 m/min on metallic substrates without damaging the material. A lower internal current makes sure the treatment is just as efficient, but without the damaging effects to the material.


Fathering the Material Factor
And by the way, did you know it was Vetaphone, who figured out one of the most widespread standards of the industry – namely the Material Factor? The calculations, which are necessary for determining the power requirements for successful treating of various materials, were first presented by Verner Eisby in his book “E-NORM”, published in 1959.

- Every innovation we ever made was made on the basis of a customer’s need: To find solutions to specific problems or new challenges, to minimise down time or maximise production speed, or to fine tune the production process. Basically what we do best is trouble shooting – and afterwards we figure out how to implement the solution in our product range, states Jan Eisby.

So, if you’re puzzling with some little thing you really can’t believe cannot be improved somehow, then you might consider bringing in the Danish engineers

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