Cost savings with oven temperature profiling (Free)
By understanding and controlling your thermal cure process, you can improve operating efficiency and maximize your company’s profitability. This article discusses how oven temperature profilers helped two companies improve their finishing output. It includes graphs and charts on how this was done, and discusses four key areas in your curing system where oven temperature profiling can help cut costs.

To get the color right, a pigment manufacturer expands its curing capabilities (Free)
When a powder that is white in the lab comes out yellowish on a finishing line, an aluminum pigment manufacturer embarks on a problem-solving odyssey that reveals a fundamental difference between cure ovens.

Cure dynamics of powder coatings
Commercial application line operators, laboratory and customer service personnel working for powder coatings manufacturers, and even field engineers and application line designers have often relied on on-line trial-and-error methods and procedures to establish viable time and temperature data to assure that powder coatings are fully cured. This article offers a relatively simple formula to calculate the time-temperature dynamics for powder coating cure.

Rapid prototyping key to realizing masking benefits in powder coating shops
This article discusses how rapid prototyping of two- and three-dimensional (2-D and 3-D) masking devices can be customized to increase quality and productivity while lowering costs on a powder coating line. It describes a new rapid prototyping system for 3-D parts that is ideal for complex jobs. It also explains the benefits of customized 2-D die-cut masks and the prototyping of hooks and hangers.

A coater goes bigger and keeps getting better results
A custom coater has carved out a successful niche by coating parts as long as 67 feet and weighing 10,000 pounds with powder coatings that stand up to the elements and shine as bright as the sun.