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Liquid Coating

Humidity Effect on Painting

Recently, we have been having problems with the curing of some of our paints. Some seem to cure, while some of them do not. I tend to think that the issue is color specific, but also related to humidity levels in the painting environment. Have you heard of this before?

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Powder Coating

Cure Oven Inspection Report

Terry Ray has seen nearly everything in his years inspecting e-coat paint cure ovens as a paint systems manager at KMI Systems Inc. (Crystal Lake, IL), a company that designs, builds and installs paint and porcelain finishing systems for customers such as General Electric, Whirlpool, Weber-Stephen and Maytag, among others.

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Powder Coating

Keep on Truckin’ with the Right Coatings

The Raymond Corporation knew it wanted the latest technology available. The question was a little more complex: liquid or powder for its coating applications.

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Liquid Coating

A New Wrinkle

The same paint does not produce the same wrinkle texture when applied by the vendors—and we have tried different vendors. The only difference I can see is that we use electrically-fired ovens and they use gas-fired ovens. What do you think about this?

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Nordson & Raymond Corp. "Keeps on Truckin"

The Raymond Corporation (Greene, NY) has been a leading material handling company in North American for more than 90 years, and also an integral member of the Toyota Materials Handling Group.

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Volkswagen: Red, White, Blue … and Green inspires new $120M plant

Volkswagen: Red, White, Blue … and Green inspires new $120M plant

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Powder Coating

The Right Stuff

How to Get the Ideal Powder Finish for your Parts

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Liquid Coating

Pumping Up Solar Production

Unique finishing process improves CPV manufacturing.

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Liquid Coating

Wind Power!

Building wind turbines and bringing jobs to Western Michigan

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Vacuum Vapor

PVD + UV Paint = New Business

Automation, other technologies boost finisher

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