Powder polymeric paint
Powder polymeric paint entered many spheres
of human life for the past century. Cars, furniture, stalls, computer
cases and even space stations are painted using it. Frankly speaking,
nobody tries to dispute about its advantages at least because
there is no more qualitative, economical and safety paint that
mankind invented so far.
One may still use so called "traditional"
paints, but the time doesn't stand still and the usage of modern
powder paints is the necessity. Otherwise, you're behind with
life by all the parametres, such as design, environmental safety,
quality and funds saving.
What such a rapt attention to powder paints
can be explained with?
Naturally, by their properties and the simplicity
of spraying technique or, rather, by their superiority above traditional
types of lacquer coatings. Powder paints do not contain any solvents
and made of substances that turn into one-layered coatings at
the solidification. The resulting coatings are high-strength,
hard and abrasion-proof. They are so much long-lived that sometimes
their lifetime exceeds the lifetime of the painted product.
It is logically to produce coatings with high
characteristics of physicomechanical, chemical, insulating, protective
and decorative properties of wide color range, various coating
textures ("skin like", "antique", "moire",
etc) and different lustre degree (gloss, semigloss, half-matt
and matt).
Today powder paint technologies walk around
the world triumphantly. The annual growth of powder paint output
is about 10 percent. It should be underlined that Republic of
Belarus shared this worldwide trend and for the past two years
its powder paint industry has been actively and dynamically developing
though not so long ago domestic industry was left behind for at
least two decades.
Thus, advisability of switching from coloration by traditional
materials to powder technologies can be based on the next advantages:
- good manufacturability at spraying: a worker
takes prepared device, sprays the powder paint, fulfills firing-on
and receives the result; thus we have less time and man-hours
spent at the color switching.
- lower expenses per unit of painted area and
the possibility of reuse of that part of powder paint that missed
the painted item. Powder sprayed coating technology provides saving
of materials (the amount of paint utilized is close to 93-97%)
and energy (the volume of air that is in use is replaced two times
per hour instead of fifteen times in traditional methods of coloring),
working area (15% decrease) and man-hours (50% decrease)
- operational risk is put to the lowest notch,
first of all, because there is no risk of fire, secondly, because
powders are nontoxic. Environmental pollution is also put to the
lowest notch, because only less than one percent of volatile products
escapes during the consolidation of coatings. At the same time
up-to-date recuperation system allows to avoid emissions of unutilized
paint that is left in the spray cabinet. Moreover, high ecological
indexes of the described technology will help you to meet exacting
requirements of not only ecological monitoring services, but also
coming from the representatives of SES and firemen.