Powder Coat

In the powder coating industry, product over-cured and poor surface finishing are both the utmost issues faced by the manufacturer.

We talk with Parth Moradia, Sales Director at Kroma Coatings Technology, a new supplier of powder coatings in the industry.

The markets that Melissa Ver Meer’s companies service could not be more varied, from screen printing to commercial food equipment to ovens and dryers for industrial manufacturing.

McCarthy Tire Service opened an in-house commercial wheel refinishing facility at its headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

Jensen Metal Products in Racine, Wisconsin, rebranded its powder finishers facility to Jensen Powder Finishers.

When Parth Moradia and Mihir Vasoya began considering entering the finishing industry in 2020, they thought they would open a new powder coating business to service manufacturers.

Improved durability in organic coatings could partially solve the important problem of metal corrosion.

In the middle of a cold winter, the workers at Tri-State Fabricators near Cincinnati can only think of the warm sun.

Tim Brinner from IFS Coatings talks with us about Puroplaz PE16 powder coating.

Within the plating, heat treating, powder coating, anodizing, and related finishing services industry, a familiar narrative emerges during conversations with industry professionals.

Los Angeles-based Andrews Powder Coating Inc. is about as far west as you can go in the U.S., but some of their biggest customers sit along the Atlantic Coast.

The keys to a good powder coating are two: the pretreatment and the grounding.

Haven Steel Products announced a $6.5 million investment in their facility in in McKenzie, Tennessee, that includes adding powder coating.

The charging characteristics of coating powders were improved for both corona-charging and tribocharging-type spray guns.

Additives (pigments) such as zinc phosphate enhance the anti-corrosive properties of powder coatings, but their behavior in powder coatings has not been extensively studied.

We spoke with Todd Gragg, IFS Powder Coatings' Heat Sensitive Substrates Manager, about new products and developments in the low cure powder coating area.