Powder Coating
Special Coating System Keeps John Deere’s Gator® Utility Vehicles Looking Good Under the Toughest Conditions
Best known for their use on farms and golf courses, John Deere’s Gator® off-road utility vehicles, which can travel up to 18 miles per hour, were enlisted for more patriotic duties following the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.
Read MorePowder Coating: Defining an Industry and Coloring a World
The growth of the powder coating industry during the last twenty years has been dramatic, with new applications continually being developed to ensure ever expanding market penetration in a wide range of industries.
Read MorePowder Coating Plastic Substrates
Question: Are there any successful powder coating on plastic substrate projects?
Read MoreCutting-Edge Approaches to Coating Wood
Powder coating has been used with great success in the metal finishing industry for decades.
Read MoreRust Prevention Steel Tubes
Question: We powder coat welded steel tubing (ANSI 1008-1010). We have a five-stage washer followed by a dry-off oven before we apply powder coating.
Read MorePutting Coatings to the Test
A comparison of two effective approaches to accelerated weathering and light stability testing...
Read MoreEN/Teflon Coatings
Question: I think you may have mistaken the coating system to which K.B. was inquiring.
Read MoreMore Adhesion Troubles
Question: We are a die caster who has some of our castings powder coated. We are experiencing an adhesion problem with some of the castings we supply to a certain customer. The castings are all run with the same process parameters, but some of the castings do not pass a crosshatch test and some from the same batch do. We have obtained samples of this problem, and I am hoping that you can provide us with the name of a lab that could answer what may be on these castings (if anything) or what process is adversely affecting the adhesion.
Read More2024-T6 or -T8 Aluminum
Question: 2024-T6 or -T8 Aluminum should not be substantially softened by brief heating at 200F or even somewhat higher.
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