GP Plasma exists because the vacuum coating industry has too many equipment vendors who sell you a system and too few who understand the process inside it.
Our founding team came out of decades in the trenches — designing systems, developing processes, troubleshooting failures that shouldn't have happened if the equipment had been designed correctly in the first place. We started GP Plasma to do it right.
100+ years of combined process engineering experience across PVD, PECVD, ALD, arc, nitriding, and web coating
Exclusive US builder for Tronic Concept (German-designed thin-film PVD systems)
North American representative for Swiss Cluster (ALD/PVD cluster and batch systems)
Owned inline R&D coating facility — Class 10,000 clean room, production-class equipment, available for contract work
UltraDep™ PECVD technology — we acquired the IP from General Plasma Inc., supported and available for integration
Founded 2019. Grown by doing the hard builds others declined
Frank has been active in PVD/PACVD/CVD process, system and business development for over 25 years. His years working at companies such as Gencoa Ltd, Hauzer Techno Coating, Crystallume and Vergason Technologies Inc. have given him a vast global network as well as long term experience living abroad and travelling in Asia. Technical achievements include the development of new arc sources, coating equipment and the industrialization of HIPIMS technology. Currently, he is focused on global business development related to the thin films coating industry with a focus on USA – Asia relations. He is currently President of the Society of Vacuum Coaters. He follows the philosophy ”Challenges are not as interesting if they don’t seem nearly impossible”.
Marion's expertise has spanned decades across various industries including batch coating, inline coating, and batch coaters accross several market sectors. A skilled systems engineer, program and project manager and as an experienced operations executive he brings organization and force multiplication to the GP Plasma team.
Ryan is a mechanical engineer and executive with 15+ years of management, engineering, product design, and development experience. He received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Arizona. Starting in medical product design and development and then moving into the vacuum coating industry as an engineer and engineering manager. Ryan has experience designing and building large area coating systems, from chamber design to heating, cooling, and transport systems utilizing extensive FEA and thermal simulation experience and practical approach to serviceability and cost. After a detour back into medical device development as the CEO of a startup from 2015-2023, he now joins us in the vacuum coating industry to help grow GP Plasma.
