A thermal insulating coating system with safe-touch performance is helping prevent work-related contact-burn accidents at facilities where hot pipes, blowers and other surfaces are exposed to personnel.
Manufacturing managers and process engineers should evaluate UV curing as a way to reduce floor space, energy costs and environmental emissions while increasing production rates.
Equipment safety features are key to maintaining plant safety and quality standards, as well as for being in compliance with OSHA and other agency regulations.
Because of the ease of operation, effective dispersion efficiency, repeatable product quality and easy cleaning between products, the benefits of this unit are considerable.
This case history of a Chinese paint manufacturer shows how using an Integrated tinting system that included colorants, color formulas, dispensing and mixing equipment, software, technical support and equipment service, helped the company save time and money.
Perhaps the most important emerging technology to reduce long-term energy consumption, especially in large plants building new mix rooms, has been the use of electric pumps.
A team of coatings industry experts worked together for as many as 10 years on the testing and adoption of this standard. The methodology in this new cycle applies not only to automotive coating systems with steel and plastic substrates, but can also apply to aircraft coatings as well as coatings for other industries.