Articles Tagged with ''Pretreatment''

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The updated adhesion-promotion system eliminates a downstream rinse and is designed for compact metal pretreatment lines and chrome-free conversions.

The controller monitors and adjusts multiple pretreatment variables while connecting process data with plant PLC and SCADA systems.

What began as a post-rinse replacement expanded into a wider modernization of pretreatment, filtration, heating and cure. The company says customers are seeing a difference in the finish.

The expansion lets customers evaluate processes under production-like conditions before committing to full-scale deployment.

This article evaluates prevailing metal surface preparation technologies, analyzes industry-specific pretreatment selection criteria and reviews emerging innovations in this space.

Advances in laser cleaning and curing are pushing powder coating lines toward faster throughput, smaller footprints and greater manufacturing flexibility.

In vehicle painting, pre-treatment is still one of the process steps that takes up the most space in a plant. One company offers a new modular pre-treatment system that is revolutionizing systems for small and medium capacities with a scalable, space-saving, and sustainable solution.

Henkel’s chromium-free pretreatment agents Bonderite M-NT 1455T, M-NT 1456, and M-NT 10456 are used for coil coating for customers in various sectors, such as architecture. 

Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division has an ongoing project funded through the Office of Naval Research to develop a novel, corrosion-resistant poly(styrene-co-catechol) tie coat and adhesion promoter to improve CARC adhesion and performance to various composites, aluminum, and steel USMC ground vehicle surfaces.