Matthews International GmbH
Booth number: 4526
matthews-engineering.com
About us
At Matthews Engineering, we turn breakthrough ideas into scalable industrial realities. New product innovations demand more than just imagination—they require precision-engineered machinery and tooling that can deliver consistent, high-performance output at industrial scale. That’s where we excel.
With deep-rooted expertise in mechanical engineering, machine building, and rotary tooling, we develop specialized equipment tailored to exact specifications—matching the unique demands of your facilities, materials, and end products. Our solutions empower businesses to test materials, substrates, and processes before full-scale rollout—ensuring validated concepts and scalable innovations that drive meaningful value.
Whether integrated as part of a production line or delivered as a standalone solution, our cutting-edge machinery and custom roller systems ensure unmatched performance for industries that process roll-to-roll and web-shaped materials.
Our brand portfolio:
Saueressig Engineering, Olbrich, Polytype Converting and Heynck
Address
Gutenbergstraße 1-3
48691 Vreden
Germany
E-mail: info@matthews-engineering.com
Phone: +49 2564 12-0
Internet: matthews-engineering.com
Contact person:
Frank Bogenstahl
Senior Director – Global Head of Sales – Energy
E-mail: Frank.Bogenstahl@matw.com
Phone: +49 2564 12-516
Products & Services
Matthews Engineering is a global manufacturer of high-precision production machinery and technical rollers. For over 75 years, we’ve been architects of engineering solutions, specializing in the design and manufacture of specialty machines and production equipment for demanding, continuous industrial manufacturing processes.
We combine engineering expertise, intelligent processes, and a passion for solving complex industrial challenges. Through our strong network of trusted brands – Saueressig Engineering, Saueressig Rollers, Olbrich, and Polytype Converting – we bring together a legacy of innovation and proven performance.
From lab-scale formulation to full-scale production, we combine deep engineering expertise with a comprehensive understanding of materials and process behavior, to help customers optimize resources, increase efficiency, and accelerate innovations.
Our differentiators? Our core technologies cover all crucial process steps like calendering, coating, embossing, laminating, and printing – empowering future-focused industries to transform complex substrates into high-performance products where precision, reliability, and efficiency are essential. Through our global Development Centers, we enable customers to simulate, validate, and scale new processes under real-world conditions, ensuring a seamless transfer into series production.
We engineer the foundation for industrial innovation – with precision.
Dry Battery Electrode (DBE) Production
As the first mover in Dry Battery Electrode (DBE) manufacturing, Matthews Engineering delivers patented, production-ready systems that redefine electrode fabrication.
Our DBE technology eliminates toxic solvents and drying ovens, enabling a cleaner, faster, and more cost-effective process. Integrated with precision multi-roll calenders, inline metrology, intelligent primer coating, and full material handling automation, our DBE lines are built for maximum energy density, manufacturing efficiency, and scalability.
Material Science & Conductive Powder
Material science is a cornerstone of our innovation strategy. Our expertise spans the formulation and processing of conductive powders, binders, and slurries tailored to both dry and wet battery electrode manufacturing.
Through in-house R&D and pilot testing, we optimize material behavior under calendaring, coating, and drying conditions – ensuring uniform dispersion, improved conductivity, and long-term electrochemical stability.
Whether you’re evaluating new active materials, transitioning to solvent-free DBE processes, or scaling a next-gen formulation, we provide deep application insight, precise process compatibility, and a clear path to manufacturability.
Wet Coating Process Expertise
Our wet coating lines support both continuous and intermittent electrode production with precision slot-die technology, advanced drying systems, and tight web tension control. Ideal for current lithium-ion battery manufacturing, our systems deliver uniform coatings, high throughput, and easy integration with upstream and downstream processes.
Multi-Roll Calender
Our decades of expertise has now been leveraged in the field of electrode production equipment by initially applying it to building lines used for the wet coating processes.
Our Multi-Roll Calenders are perfectly designed to produce dry battery electrodes as they allow for powder processing and lamination in only one production step. Multi-roll calendering compresses and densifies the electrode structure to achieve optimal thickness, uniformity, and mechanical stability. A mixture of active material in the form of powder and a polymeric binder form the basis material to be fed into the calender gap. Between the rollers rotating in opposite directions with differential circumferential speed, a fine freestanding film is formed. In the integrated lamination process, the film is directly transferred to the current collector foil with maximum accuracy by the multi-roll calender.
By replacing liquid-based slurry processes with a streamlined, solvent-free approach, our DBE technology eliminates the need for energy-intensive drying steps as well as for costly solvent recovery systems. This leads to significant impacts on cost-structure, production efficiency and sustainability aspects.
Our systems for manufacturing dry battery electrodes mark a significant departure from traditional electrode production processes – offering a more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable method for producing high-performance batteries.
