The Benefits of Powder Coating

Why Powder Coating?

There are advantages of powder coating over conventional liquid coatings:

• Efficiency
• Economy
• Energy Savings
• Environmental Compliance
• Excellence in Finish

Efficiency

The powder coating process is efficient.  There are no drips, runs, or sags, no drying or flash-off time required, making a powder coating production line move more efficiently than a standard paint line.  More parts are able to be coated automatically, with significantly lower reject rates.  With the use of the right application equipment, materials, and recovery method, users see a 95% - 98% powder utilization efficiency rate.

Economy

Powder coating is economical; it requires minimum operator training and supervision.  Parts are racked close together on a conveyor and pass quickly through a production line, allowing for lower per unit costs ... and greater economy. Powder coating offers easier compliance with federal and state regulations, increasing cost-effective savings.

Energy Savings

The exhaust required in powder coating ovens is lower - reducing energy consumption.  While ovens that cure solvent-based coatings must heat and exhaust huge volumes of air to protect against potentially explosive fumes, the exhaust volume of a powder coating oven is lower and more manageable.  Often - the air is able to be recycled into the plant.

Environmental Compliance

Powder Coating is eco-friendly, as this process eliminates VOCs – meaning the air is environmentally safer.  Installation, expansion and running a powder coating operation is so simplified, it creates the potential to place a powder coating operation in areas where other production systems would not be permitted.  Owners find housekeeping problems and clothing  contamination minimized, since dry powder does not emit the kinds of fumes liquid paint does.

Excellence in Finish

Powder coating produces a superior finish.  With its two application types (Thermoplastic and Thermosetting), powder coating provides both extreme and decorative performance properties.  Color selection is unlimited and is available in both high and low gloss.  Textures can also be varied.  Breakthroughs in powder coating technologies has led to the development of systems that are designed to meet the diverse practical and aesthetic needs of today’s demands for a superior finish on metal, wood and plastic.  See a list of What can be powder coated here.

Gorilla Powdercoating, Inc.
4711 W. 137th St.,
Crestwood, IL 60445

Ph. 708-388-2898
Fx. 708-388-9325