Articles Tagged with ''Pretreatment''

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.

Simon Wagenaar, Manager of the Technical Services department for coatings at Ulamo Coating BV, noted that the contamination of the cleaning liquids was costing thousands of Euros for personnel, lost sales, and scrap parts. This article explains the company's search for cleaning centrifuges that offered savings and sustainability benefits.

AkzoNobel offers insight on how businesses can reduce energy and further improve sustainability in their powder coating lines, from initial line loading and pretreatment, to application and curing.