Manufacturing engineers, familiar with liquid painting and laminating, also understand the process benefits of a single step powder coat, which include the following.

Despite all of these positives, powder coating on MDF is not perfect. To date it has not yet equaled the performance of the best high pressure laminate (HPL) (see Table 1). It also has some appearance limitations, i.e., wood grain looks are not available in one step. Finally, powder coatings are substrate sensitive in some respects. Important MDF characteristics include the following.