Lightweighting is become increasingly more popular. Read our article to see how this effects the powder coating industry and how we’ll be coating in the future.
The results of this study demonstrate that heat-sensitive substrates like plastics and composites can be prepared with plasma treatment and successfully coated with UV-cured powder without degrading or deforming the integrity of the substrate.
If additive-free plastic materials cannot or can only poorly be bonded or coated in spite of a clean surface, this is most probably due to their low polarity and the resultant low surface energy.
