ABOUT ALLIED POWDER COATING

What is Powder Coating?

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It Looks Like Paint But It Acts Like Armor.
It’s tough. It looks great. And it lasts a long, long time. Powder coating is a superior finish that’s found on hundreds of products you come in contact with each day. It makes products durable, attractive, and scratch-resistant, too. Powder coating is a completely dry finishing process used on a wide range of materials and products.
Finely ground particles of pigment and resin are electrostatically charged and sprayed onto products to be coated. The parts to be coated are electrically grounded so the charged particles adhere to them until melted and fused into a solid coating in a curing oven. Attributes of powder coating: Tough
Attractive
Durable
Scratch-Resistant
High-Quality
Colorful
Versatile
Long-Lasting
Unlike liquid paint, no solvents are used, so only negligible amounts of VOCs, if any, are released into the air. Unused or oversprayed powder can be recovered, so any waste is minimal and can be disposed of easily and safely.
The powder coating process is environmentally friendly and virtually pollution-free.
Thousands of different kinds of parts and products are now powder coated.

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Why Powder Coating?

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Powder coating may have gotten its start as a superior finish for metal products, but technology now makes powder coating the choice for wood and plastic as well. In fact, powder coated products are everywhere—in your home, office, shopping mall, automobile and SUV, stadium and playground and in countless architectural applications. Regardless of the product or use, you can always count on powder coating to deliver a superior finish with the Five E’s always in mind:

• Efficiency
• Economy
• Energy Savings
• Environmental Compliance
• Excellence of Finish

Efficiency With powder coating as the finishing process there are no runs, drips, or sags. Since no drying or flash-off time is required, a powder coating production line will move more efficiently than a standard paint line. More parts are able to be coated automatically, too, with significantly lower reject rates. And, with the use of appropriate application equipment, materials, and recovery methods, a 95% – 98% powder utilization efficiency rate is readily available. Economy In addition to its efficiency, powder coating offers a simplified line process that allows for minimum operator training and supervision. Parts can be racked closer together on the conveyor and pass more quickly through the production line, allowing for lower per unit costs—which means greater economy. Powder coating also offers easier compliance with federal and state regulations, increasing cost-effective savings. Energy Savings Utilizing the strength of powder coating’s efficiency and economy, the exhaust required in powder coating ovens is lower and therefore helps reduce energy consumption. While ovens that cure solvent-based coatings must heat and exhaust huge volumes of air to protect against potentially explosive fumes, the exhaust volume of a powder coating oven is lower and more manageable. So much so that the air is able to be
recycled into the plant. Environmental Compliance Powder Coating’s efficiency, economy, and energy savings works for the environment as well, as this process eliminates VOCs – meaning the air is environmentally safer. Installation, expansion and running of a powder coating operation is significantly simplified, creating the potential to place a powder coating finishing operation in areas where other production systems would not be permited. The employees also love powder coating’s reduced housekeeping problems and minimum contamination of clothing, since dry powder does not emit the kinds of fumes liquid paint does. Excellence of Finish Above all else, powder coating’s efficiency, economy, energy savings and environmental friendliness produce an excellence and superiority of finish that customers will come to know and count on. With its two application types (Thermoplastic and Thermosetting), powder coating offers a wide range of both extreme and decorative performance properties. Color selection is virtually unlimited, and is available in both high and low gloss. Textures can be varied as needed. Significant breakthroughs in powder coating technologies has even led to the development of systems that are designed to meet the diverse practical and aesthetic needs of today’s demands for a superior finish on metal, wood and plastic. Powder coating delivers Efficiency, Economy, Energy Savings, Environmental Compliance, and Excellence of Finish. The right choice in finishing to meet today’s demanding manufacturers and consumers.

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What Can Be Powder Coated?

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Powder coatings are now used on thousands of parts and products, and ongoing technological breakthroughs are expanding the list every day. Here are some of the powder coated products you see all around you: Appliances Barbecue grills
Blenders
Clothes dryers
Coffee machines
Cookstoves
Dryer drums
Frape machines
Gas and electric ranges
Kitchen mixers
Knives
Lighting equipment
Microwave ovens
Pressure cookers
Refrigerator/freezer doors and shelves
Risotto pot
Vacuum cleaners
Washer tops and lids
Water heaters
Wine cellars Automotive Antennas
Anti-chip primer
Ashtrays
Auto bodies
Brake assemblies
Brake calipers
Brake rotors
Bulldozers
Bumpers
Car radio antenna
Door handles
Engine blocks
Hitch covers
License plate frames
Luggage racks
Military personnel carriers
Mirror brackets
Oil/air/gas filters
Radiators
Roll bars
Shock absorbers
Steering wheels
Trailers and hitches
Truck & RV windows
Truck seat frames
Valve covers
Wheels
Window trim
Windshield wipers Buildings/Homes/Construction Acoustic panels
Address signs
Air-conditioner cabinets
Aluminum doors/windows
Architectural components
Barriers
Bathroom fixtures/accessories
Bathroom shower stool
Benches
Bike stands
Book/video returns
Boot scrapers
Bottled water storage rack
Ceiling panels
Ceiling tiles
Chain saws
Conservatories
Countertop display racks
Curtain rods
Curved shower rods
Deck railings
Downspouts
Duplex sign holders
Electric chandeliers
Electronic air filters
Ergonomic folding chair
Escalator steps
Exterior staircases
Fans
Fences
Fire extinguishers
Folding clothes valet
Folding mesh screen door
Food guards
Garage door openers
Garage doors
Gas/electric furnace cabinets
Generators
Grab bars
Guard rails
Hand and power tools
Hand grips
Handtrucks
Highway signs
Hinge hooks
Holiday lights
Irrigation pipes
Kitchen fixtures/accessories
Ladders
Lampposts
Light fixtures
Lockers
Locks
Mailboxes/mail slots
Metal fencing/gates
Metal gutters
Mud room bench/rack
Multipurpose panel screen
Outdoor clothes dryers
Overhead garage storage units
Pressure washers
Propane tanks
Racks
Railings
Roof edging and clips
Satellite dishes
Scaffolding
Shelves
Shoe racks
Shower doors
Shutters and louvers
Solar lampposts
Spa covers
Stair treads
Storage lockers
Structural steel
Terrace doors
Toilet paper stand
Toilet seat safety supports
Tool boxes
Water filter systems
Water fountains
Water pumps and tanks
Weatherproof lamps
Windows
Wire mesh floors Other Lawn And Garden
Sports/Recreation/Exercise
Non-Metal Products

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