Pretreatment for Powder Coating

Parts Cleaning

Get Your Products Noticed with the Powder Coated Tough Mark

Since the Powder Coated Tough Mark was introduced in the spring of 1998, over 400 powder coating businesses, including 134 manufacturers of powder coated products, have signed up for the Powder Coated Tough Mark program.

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Parts Cleaning

Small-Scale Thinking

Nano-technology pretreatment improves powder coating quality and productivity.

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THE POWDER COATING INSTITUTE

With The Powder Coating Institute in its twenty-fifth year, many of us involved with the organization have been looking back to see how far the industry have come, as well as looking forward to see where the industry can develop new applications and ensure ever expanding market penetration in a wide range of industries.

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Powder Coating

Sweeping Up Productivity Gains

Good planning and a switch to powder pay off at Tennant

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Powder Coating

Conductive Powder

Does the Powder Coating market/industry, supply or make available any Powder Coating that is also conductive? Would there be the chance of adding say nickel or copper to the Powder Coating to help this conductivity?

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Powder Coating

Adhering Two Powder Coated Surfaces

I am trying to get two powder coated surfaces to permanently adhere to each other. What, if anything do you recommend? We have 32 x 40 x 1/8 inch aluminum powder coated sheet attached to all sides to 1 x 1 inch powder coated steel tubing.

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Parts Cleaning

Nanoceramic Pretreatment

I have been informed about nanoceramic pretreatment prior powder painting. Any experience? Is it really good? Where is the catch?

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Powder Coating

Avoiding Powder in Threads

We have a problem with powder in the threads. We have tried to use rubber pull plugs, but some powder still gets in. We spend a lot of time re-tapping after painting. Do you have any suggestions or thoughts that can help?

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Powder Coating

Switching from Liquid to Powder

How are colors, surface texture and luster handled from a standards standpoint? How would I change one of our liquid paint colors (let’s say beige) with a light textured finish to a powder coating? Our paint spec now calls out Sherwin Williams F63HX ... TEXTURED. How would I change this over to Powder Coating?

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Powder Coating

The Effect of Low Temperatures on Powder

I have an application of powder coated steel storage racks in a freezer at 20°F below zero. Does powder paint, like steel, get harder as the temperature goes lower?

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