Reasons to Use Advanced Powder Coatings Technology

The application of powder coatings is very common these days in all aspects of our every day life’s. There is numerous uses for powder coatings including Industrial bakeware steel fencing, recreational parks, playgrounds and additional architectural structures.

Methods of Powder Coating Applications

The method of powder coating differs from the typical approaches of painting surfaces as it is a kind of dry coating that’s applied as a dry powder form that doesn’t require a solvent in order to hold the assorted elements such as fillers, pigments, and resin within a liquid form.

The powder coating is mainly applied by means of a practice called ‘Electrostatic Charge’. This entails spraying the object with a dry powder before applying an electrostatic charge to the powder cloud which makes it attach to the component. As the coating is cured under heat it then forms a skin over the steel component.

An alternative process of powder coating is called the ‘Fluidised Bed’ method. Objects are pre-heated and then being covered in an aerated powder filled bed. The powder sticks to the object and the residual heat causes the powder to melt and cure onto the steel object.

The Benefits of Powder Coatings

Powder Coatings offer a lot of benefits over usual coating methods, these include:

They give a long, robust, life expectancy of concerning 25 years.
They allow a widespread range of different colours and effects that can be achieved which otherwise wouldn’t be possible by means of other coating processes.
They offer a much more reduced impact on the environment owing to the powder coatings that emit zero volatile organic compounds (VOC) thus making for more environmentally friendly powder coating
As Powder coatings are thicker so they will not run like other commonly used techniques of coating objects
The overspray powder can be recycled.

All in all, powder coatings are a tough and modern practice of easily coating things particularly in commercial environments, areas and applications and one which if you have not considered yet, then you probably should.