Uniform layer thicknesses are an important quality factor in industrial car painting. Until now, numerous test runs were necessary when launching new models to ensure the perfect painting results were achieved.
The integrity of protective coatings relies heavily on good chemistry. That’s why an independent finisher of agriculture and construction equipment was looking for better ways to keep precise component ratios in the solvent-borne urethane paint used to coat large agricultural and construction equipment.
Robby Harris has a big problem on his hands: the executive director of special processes at Steelville Manufacturing in Missouri is often having to turn away work at their facility, which makes and then coats over 8,500 discrete parts a year, most of which are in groups of 32 pieces or less.
Air Power, a leading distributor of industrial products and integrated solutions provider based in High Point, North Carolina, has acquired Zenmar Power Tool and Hoist Systems of Cockeysville, Maryland.
PPG has formed a partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for a research initiative aimed at developing energy-efficient coatings systems for the automotive industry.
Thom Bell has been around the finishing industry for a long time, and thought he had seen it all. He was wrong.
Editor’s note: Huzaifa Matawala is the president of Matawala Group of Industries, a paint recycling consultant at Regent Paints, and the CEO of the Paint Foundation in New York, a 501c3 that has an innovative approach to recycling paint waste and reusing paints in an environmentally-conscious way.
Automotive tier supplier Mahle Behr had a situation on its hands when only one certified paint company met its rigorous heavy truck specification for underhood black paint on aluminum, and the coating was increasingly difficult to work with. The search began for another paint supplier that could be certified to this demanding spec.
Akriti Agarwal is the global paint and coatings manager at Mercury Marine in the Greater Milwaukee area.
At a workshop in the north of Santiago de Chile, a group of young people are filling in car panels with putty and sanding them down ready for painting.
A finishing system manufacturer and conveyor specialist worked together to deliver innovative paint finishing solutions.
A Black Hawk helicopter going through a recapitalization process at Corpus Christi Army Depot is the Army’s first aircraft to receive an undercoat unlike others in the aviation fleet.
We recently did a survey of Industrial Coaters on LinkedIn to determine the pressures they were experiencing on their business. The first question dealt with the common defects they experience.
For spray booth operators, maintaining a stable temperature in the workspace is more than a matter of comfort. Every kind of spray and finish application has an ideal temperature and humidity range based on the specific process and compounds involved. Most applications give operators a little wiggle room when it comes to climate control, but straying outside of this range can have a serious impact on cost and quality.
At the beginning of the automotive industry about 100 years ago, cars were painted with a varnish-like product that was brushed onto the vehicle surfaces; this coating was sanded and smoothed, and then the varnish was reapplied and refinished to establish several layers of the coating.
Changing your spray paint booth’s exhaust filters can be both costly and time-consuming for high-production industrial manufacturers and aircraft finishers.
Axalta, a leader in liquid and powder coatings, announced that the iconic No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE, driven by William Byron, will showcase the company's 2020 Global Automotive Color of the Year, Axalta Sea Glass, at this year's DAYTONA 500.
