Powder Coating

Powder Coating has been referred to as "dry painting". The process relies upon the natural principles of opposite charges attract. The paint to be applied has been ground into a fine powder by the powder manufacturers. It is then fed by compressed air into a special gun, where the powder particles are charged up.

The work is hung from jigs onto a moving track which is earthed. The charged particles are blown towards the work by air pressure and they naturally want to go to earth, so they are attracted to the parts that need coating and subsequently remain attached by electrostatic attraction until stoved in an oven.

This coating takes place in a special booth such that any powder not attracted to the work can be captured and recycled. As such this process is more efficient than spray to waste wet spraying and contains absolutely no solvents. Therefore it is a much greener solution for getting a hard wearing U.V.stable colour onto metal.

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