The aNIR® and aLITE® platform technologies enable a variety of new manufacturing processes especially for smart textiles and other multilayer textile-based printed electronics.

aNIR® and especially aLITE® allow coatings to dry completely without distortion, especially at low temperatures, even with aqueous thick-film wet layers. Not only the drying times can be reduced by orders of magnitude compared to conventional hot air drying systems (typically from minutes to a few seconds). In addition, significantly increased production speeds are realized due to the small space requirement, often added, multilayer application and drying processes are then also possible in one line. Further enormous cost advantages result from the greatly reduced energy requirement of the adphos electrothermal drying solutions (approx. only 10% - 30% of hot air, or ≤ 30% of (N)IR-based dryers), which are intrinsically also completely zero CO2-emission due to their working principles.