Curing/Ovens

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Outgassing describes the phenomena of entrapped gasses being released through a powder coating during the cure process. When this gas passes through the coating, it creates pinholes. 

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When this automated parking garage maker needed a green, robust fifinish for its modular, steel construction frame, they chose powder coating to get the job done. By Sharon Spielman

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What began as a small body shop in the late 1970s is now a 40,000 square-foot metal fabricating and powder coating business that caters to, among o...

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Powder coatings are used to protect and beautify.  Formulators by their nature us mainly on film performance and durability.  It must  be part of their chemistry training.  However, the first thing the customer sees is the appearance of the product.  If the color does not meet a customer's expectations because of inconsistency of variation, then finishing operation has failed.  This article offers an overview on color control and how to troubleshoot variations.

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Wisconsin Oven Corporation announced the shipment of two (2) electrically heated walk-in batch ovens that will be used for baking tool castings and curing powder coatings. Due to the limited height of doorways and a freight elevator in the customer’s 150 plus year old mill building, the ovens were built with a horizontal split line.

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The powder coating industry had been asleep for nearly a decade. Two recessions, off-shoring, over-capacity and slim profit margins cast this outstanding coating technology into a funk. R&D budgets were decimated and far too many experts either retired or got out of the business.

Fortunately, in the last four to five years the industry has experienced a resurgence in innovation. Technologists are finally heeding the call to develop new materials and processes to meet the emerging needs of the manufacturing sector.

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A fan is a precisely engineered piece of equipment that provides control of air volume and direction in order to control a process.Every major component used in a powder coating system depends on the movement and control of airflow to operate as intended. A washer bay has to have exhaust to direct the vapors to atmosphere.

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Frank A. Cassell Hall, the first sustainable building on the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg campus, received Gold LEED certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

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In a perfect world, troubleshooting would never be an issue. Products would arrive before they were ever needed, application performance would wor...

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The 2014 Powder Coating Show, which was held in Indianapolis this past September 16-18, is in the rearview mirror now. Let’s take a look back and reminisce (or see what you missed if you were unable to attend)!

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