Corrosion has long been seen as an unavoidable cost of doing business, but a new global study reveals it’s fast becoming one of manufacturing&rs...

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The Sherwin-Williams Co. announced that its board of directors has elected Benjamin E. Meisenzahl to serve as the company's next chief financial offic...

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Frank Lowe, a manufacturer of custom packaging and protective solutions, has added Dwight Squires to its team as the new sales representative for its ...

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BASF announced that Jolen Stein, senior director, People Services at BASF’s Verbund site in Geismar, La., has been named as one of 12 outstandin...

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Being a member of the Powder Coating Institute (PCI) has been an invaluable part of our journey at VULCAN™ IR Systems. PCI has created opportuni...

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Sherwin-Williams' OneCure dust-on-dust powder coating system delivers the performance of a two-coat finish with the efficiency of a single cure. This system reduces energy consumption and operational footprint while often enhancing corrosion resistance and appearance standards.

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Powder Coating, dry on dry, dust on dust, one cure

We are moving our powder coating shop to a new location, which means we must move our large 24-foot curing oven. Our shop is 15 miles away, so we want to make sure the oven survives the trip. Do you have any tips on how to move it successfully?

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Powder Coating

Additive manufacturing (AM) is transforming how metal components are designed
and built, unlocking shapes and structures once impossible to fabricate. Complex
geometries, lattice structures, conformal cooling channels, and lightweight yet
strong components are now feasible in ways that traditional subtractive methods
could not achieve.

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Powder Coating, 3D printed, additive manufacturing

Powder coating has long been a craft shaped by experience. Operators learn the
quirks of guns, reciprocators, and electrostatics the hard way. When things go
wrong, the instinct is quite often the same: spray a little more powder and hope for
the best. CoatingAI’s Blueprint OS challenges that approach by blending physicsbased
modeling with adaptive machine learning, so powder lines behave like
precision engineered systems.

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artificial intelligence, powder booth, machine learning

In today’s powder coating operations, quality assurance is as critical as production.
Whether it’s finishing automotive parts, architectural components, or OEM products,
coating professionals need to demonstrate consistent coating thickness, proper
surface preparation, and controlled application conditions. Traditionally, this meant
inspectors with basic gages, clip boards, and hours of manual data entry. While the
methods served their purpose, they were often slow, fragmented, and prone to
human error.

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Powder Coating, inspection, coating thickness, surface prep