A custom coater in Oklahoma says that to maintain high color-quality standards, all work areas must be cleaned with a high efficiency vacuum cleaner. Find out what this shop uses to control its quality with up to 10 color changes a day.
We have an automatic powder system with 16 corona guns that are used to coat luminaries and fluorescent lights. Because of some Faraday problems in our parts, we decided to place a manual tribo gun after the corona guns. Now, when the operator uses the tribo, all the powder is repelling and removing from the edges of the part. This is totally the opposite of what we wanted. We believe it might be caused by the effect of the corona guns. What are we doing wrong?
We are looking for an industrial vacuum for our powder coating department. What are our choices? Are there any regulations I need to follow when it comes to an industrial vacuum?
As I write this in the first month of 2006, I am reminded from long-ago mythology lessons that January is named for Janus, the two-headed Roman god who looked both backward and forward.
At a White House ceremony on January 5, Pittsburgh-based Bayer Corp. received the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership for its Making Science Make Sense program, a company-wide initiative that advances science literacy across the United States through hands-on, inquiry-based learning, employee volunteerism and public education. Secretary of Commerce Carlos M. Gutierrez presided over the award ceremony.
Twin Cities Chapter of Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI) and the Minnesota Technical Assistance Program (MnTAP) at the University of Minnesota, are hosting the 6th Minnesota Paint and Powder Coating Expo on Thursday, March 9, at Century College in White Bear Lake, Minn., (near St. Paul).
When we look back at 2005, the most notable events surely will include Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Like the old adage goes, "Timing is everything." For 19 years now, we mail our survey to qualified finishers in early fall.
Control of the paint application process and assessment of paint quality requires sampling and monitoring key process output parameters such as coating thickness, color and appearance.
More than 40 years ago, while many of us where still in school, a brilliant man in Europe named Ir. Pieter Gillis de Lange was working to come up with a new coating material that would radically reduce VOCs compared to traditional solvent-based coatings.
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