Manufacturer Reaps Efficiency Benefits and Cost Savings With Prepainted Metal
Just ask Nordyne, Inc., manufacturer of HVAC equipment. Always on the lookout for ways to improve its processes, Nordyne traded in its old internal electrostatic painting process for more efficient coil coating technology.
With this technology, large coils of metal sheet stock (including cold-rolled steel, hot dip galvanized, electro galvanized, zinc-steel, aluminum, stainless steel, copper and brass) can be coated in a continuous, highly automated process prior to fabrication. During this process, the metal is unwound, the top and bottom sides are cleaned, chemically treated, primed, oven-cured, top-coated, oven-cured again, and then rewound for shipment. The variety of coatings available is nearly unlimited, and pre-painted coils are extremely flexible, with the ability to be rewound, drawn, formed, bent and blanked.