Powder Coat

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.

Seeing is believing when it comes to Compass Powder Coating’s Mike Tashash.

Powder coating aluminum is pretty straightforward.

When owner Rob Thomas looks at his management team at Anchor Bay Powder Coat in New Baltimore, Michigan, he sees several people who have played a big role in the success of his company.

We speak with Tim Brinner, Vice President of Thermoplastics at IFS Coatings, about their various products and how applicators are using them.

Talk to anyone in the performance coatings industry in North America, and they will probably start talking about the AAMA specs pretty quickly.

AR Powder Coating’s Tony Sclafani has his own take on what the 5P idiom means when it comes to running his company’s powder coating division.

AR Iron’s powder coating division has achieved AAMA 2604 and AAMA 2605 certifications.