High Heat Powder Performance on Motorized Vehicles

High heat coatings must not only protect parts at elevated temperatures but must also maintain integrity through the rapid thermal cycles caused by applying ice or cold water to a super-heated part while concurrently taking abrasive blows.

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NASA and UCF Collaborate to Develop New High Temperature Powder Coating

A high-performance polyimide powder coating NASA and UCF have been developing is based on the polyamic acid (PAA) polymer, which has a low melting point.

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A Guide to Powder Coatings for Extreme Service Environments

In this edition of Technology Interchange we look into scenarios where either the prevailing conditions are acutely intense or where product performance expectations include lengthier than typical longevity.

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Rapid Silicone Prototyping: Bridging the Gap

Rapid prototyping using 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has addressed many of the time- consuming issues related to tooling up, testing, and design tweaking, revolutionizing the prototyping world in the process

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Finishing Systems and Statistics

Modern automated finishing systems can report many stats as part of their supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software, which also controls the system.

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Robotic Technology Brings New Alternative to Powder Coating Industry

Lesta was founded in 2010 with the intent to change how people think about industrial painting robotics by making automation technology more accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.

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Building a Bigger Mousetrap

The industry has seen growing demand for the ability to coat parts that previously pushed the boundaries of what was considered too long, too heavy, or too wide to powder coat. Equipment suppliers have responded with rapid growth in technologies that have allowed custom coaters not only to build a better mousetrap, but a bigger one too.

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The Wild Wild WET

What we didn’t initially consider was that the water running through the park would be chlorinated to kill bacteria and maintain a safe play area. Not only does chlorine kill bacteria, but it can also highly accelerate corrosion in certain metals.