Coatema (Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH) is a coating and laminating equipment specialist headquartered in Dormagen, Germany, supplying battery electrode coating and calendering equipment alongside sister companies KROENERT and DRYTEC under the ATH Group.
1. Company Overview
- Company Name: Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH
- Headquarters: Dormagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
- Ownership: Part of the ATH (Altonaer-Technologie-Holding) Group since 2018 — sister companies KROENERT, DRYTEC, and (formerly) ZAE
- Business: Coating, laminating, and calendering equipment for lab R&D, pilot, and custom mass-production applications
2. History and Workforce
The company has grown into a supplier of coating, printing, and laminating plants ranging from lab R&D through pilot to custom mass-production scale. In August 2018, Hamburg-based ATH (Altonaer-Technologie-Holding, the parent of KROENERT) acquired all shares of Coatema, bringing the two companies under a common group, though each brand and headquarters continues to operate independently.
The company states it holds patents in sustainable applications through its own R&D and has received numerous innovation awards. Detailed workforce composition is (undisclosed).
3. Core Technology and Key Equipment
The company supports a range of coating and printing methods including doctor blade, comma bar/reverse comma bar, slot die, gravure printing, and rotary/flat screen printing, with calender systems handling working widths of 100–2,000 mm and line forces from 6 tonnes (pneumatic) up to 80 tonnes (hydraulic).
- Click&Coat — a modular multi-function coating, printing, and laminating system
- Calender systems — supporting both sheet-fed and complete roll-to-roll (R2R) lines
- Easycoater — a lab coater for cathode and anode sample development
- Laser Drying Technology — improving electrode drying efficiency
4. Production Infrastructure and Quality Assurance
The company operates production and research facilities at its Dormagen, Germany headquarters, and participates in numerous national and European research-funded projects including in fuel cell and electrolyzer solutions. Detailed factory floor area is (undisclosed).
5. Delivery Track Record and Partnerships
The company states it supplies coating and printing lines to customers in fuel cell and electrolyzer research and production, though individual customer names are (undisclosed).
6. Financial Status and Roadmap
As a member of the ATH Group, individual financial figures are (undisclosed).
The company is pursuing next-generation thin-film coating commercialization, including a project with SALD BV to advance “Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD)” technology to production scale.
This profile was compiled based on publicly available sources including the company’s official website (coatema.de) and Battery-Power Online. Unverified figures and undisclosed information have not been arbitrarily included.