The small-batch delivery problem
A production slurry delivery system — mix tank, progressive cavity pump, Coriolis flow loop — is engineered around volume. Development work is the opposite problem: a few hundred milliliters of an experimental electrode slurry or drug-loaded formulation, too valuable to waste priming a pump loop and too small to run through production plumbing at all. Most labs improvise: hand-fed reservoirs, borrowed syringe pumps, inconsistent pressure. The coating data then reflects the delivery method as much as the formulation.
What the syringe cart is
The IMC slurry syringe cart packages precision syringe-based metering, controls, and fluid handling into one self-contained mobile unit. Because delivery is positive-displacement from the syringe barrel, flow rate is directly and precisely controlled at very low rates — the pre-metered principle of slot die coating, applied at batch scale. Dead volume is minimal, so nearly all of your batch ends up on the web, and cleanup between formulations is fast.
It is completely standalone: no tie-in to the coater's slurry delivery system, no permanent plumbing, no controls integration required. Connect the fluid line to the coating head, set your flow rate, and run. One cart can serve multiple coating stations — lab, pilot, or a production machine running a development trial.
What it's for
Formulation development — coat small experimental batches with the same delivery precision as a production fluid system. High-value fluids — pharmaceutical formulations and specialty slurries where priming losses are unacceptable. Multi-formulation trial days — swap batches quickly without flushing a pump loop. Supplementing core delivery — run a controlled side-trial on a production coater without disturbing its qualified fluid system.
Pairs with any coater
The syringe cart is designed to feed slot die and other coating heads on IMC lab, pilot, and production machines — and on equipment from other manufacturers.