Product spotlight: Powder Coating

Even if the process is not that old, millions of tons of powder coating are used for coatings worldwide. It was only in the 1960s that the powder coating technology quickly became established and was continuously optimized.
Coating technology is used particularly on steel, galvanized steel, and aluminum, but it is now also possible on stainless steel and even plastic. You will encounter powder coatings in many areas because they are robust, weather-resistant, and can withstand higher mechanical loads than traditional paints.

Advantages of powder coating

The advantages of powder coating are apparent. The color particles are applied very evenly, and no color is lost. Everything that does not find its way onto the object to be coated is sucked in again and sprayed again. There are no noses and no dripping paint.
Environmentally harmful solvents are not required. Besides, the powder coating applied is also significantly more resistant to mechanical influences because it has excellent dynamic properties. There are far fewer cracks than with traditionally applied paints.

What materials can you powder coat?

Basically, you can powder coat all metallic objects and surfaces. Also, there are heat-resistant materials such as glass and ceramics, which are coated with the fluidized bed process and are also powder-coated.
It is also possible to powder-coat materials such as plastic and possibly wood. For this, they use unique kinds of primer paint.

Powder coating process

In principle, there are two types of methods for powder coating. On the one hand, we have the internal sintering process and, on the other hand, that of electrostatic powder coating, also called EPS for short.
The workpieces to be coated are heated to more than the melting temperature of the powder and then briefly immersed in a fluidized powder bath. Because the workpiece is hotter than liquid powder, it melts onto the object to be coated.
Depending on the length of stay, it forms more or less thick layers. The process is mainly used to apply thicker layers. So the powders are mostly thermoplastics.
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