Pretreatment for Powder Coating
Powder Coating Clinic: Measuring Film Thickness before Cure
Q. How can I tell if the powder film build is thick enough before I cure the powder coating? We coat a lot of square footage and we need to control our cost. We often put on too much powder to avoid light coating. I need to know what my uncured film thickness is.
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Powder Coating Clinic: Sanding for Repair
Q. We sand aluminum die-cast parts that have minor defects in the powder coating before recoating them. The small areas of dirt, metal blemishes, fibers or similar particles are sanded using 120-grit sandpaper on an orbital sander. After recoating the parts, we often find more little specks and other defects and lines from the sanding disk in the coating. My question is, does this happen because of the sandpaper we are using, or because we sand all the way to the aluminum, exposing the surface and causing it to outgas?
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Data-Driven Coater Uses Technology to Improve Finishes
Iowa’s Co-Line is a Top Shop that uses analytics to improve efficiencies.
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Nordson Partners with Powder Coating Institute to Award $5,000 Scholarship
Nordson Corporation partners with the Powder Coating Institute (PCI) to sponsor the first $5,000 Nordson BUILDS/PCI Scholarship, awarded at the PC Summit earlier this month.
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Trojan Powder Coating Collaborates with Artist Stephen Glassman
Flows Two Ways adorns the facade of Via 57 West, Bjarke Ingels Group’s first mixed-use residence building in New York City.
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CCAI's SoCal Chapter's Toys For Tots Golf Event Helps Marines
This year the chapter is aiming for 600 toys for the U.S. Marine holiday program after collecting 523 last year.
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Tower at PNC Plaza with PPG Coatings Earns Architectural Award
Inner and outer curtain walls incorporate metal framing finished with Coraflon Sunstorm fluoropolymer powder coating in "mica gray", which meet or exceed AAMA 2605 specifications.
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Eyelet Manufacturer Finds Safer Paint Stripping With Aquastrip
The manufacturer was buying a stripping product from another company, but there were several issues regarding service, value and performance. Not to mention the strong odor and no one really wanted to use it.
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Toefco Expansion Adds 20,000-Square-Foot Coating Facility
Adding to its already operating two overhead conveyor lines with more than 400 available coating specs, Toefco increased both its capacity and capabilities with the addition of a new 20,000-square-foot, high-capacity, high-temperature coating facility.
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