Good spray booth lighting is crucial to getting a good color match on your paint jobs. The "porcelain" like white finish adds an overall "brightness" on the inside of the booth. This will give you much better visibility helping you get the best paint job possible.
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The "gloss" like finish is much easier to clean and maintain. This can save valuable time increasing your profits on every paint job.
Having a more professional look will impress your customers and could lead to more insurance work. It shows a level of professionalism that will make you stand out from other auto body shops.
Powder coatings have steadily gained popularity as an alternative to liquid coatings due to the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) associated with liquid coatings. Powder coatings are durable, help simplify environmental compliance and allow a high-quality finish. This is why in – at the turn of this century – roughly 15% of the industrial finishing market preferred them. Since then, it has been growing in popularity as an option for liquid coatings.
However, designing spray paint booths for powder applications requires a different approach than liquid booths. When incorporating a powder booth into your manufacturing line, the 3 biggest questions to answer are:
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The first thing your booth’s design should address is whether your operation will implement manual or automatic spray applications. Manual applications require an operator, which presents stricter filtering and airflow requirements for both liquid and powder applications. However, there are other considerations that need to be taken into account when dealing with powder—as opposed to liquid—coatings. As confirmed in a recent article by the Fabricator and Manufacturers Association, although powder coatings are known to be non-flammable, they can be highly flammable when in an atomized state—such as during a spray application.
The second operational factor to keep in mind is the number of colors that will be used in your booth. Powder booths designed primarily for one color can take advantage of a reclaim system. Up to 98% of the overspray from powder coatings can be recovered and reused, which makes reclaim systems especially helpful for operations that require only one color.
These systems require less powder coating material since overspray is reused. However, a reclaim system does not work well with multiple colors. It requires individual color cartridges to reclaim each color, separately; some powder booth manufacturers offer quick color change collector modules that help to address this issue.
Spray-to-waste systems should be considered when many colors are used in small quantities and reclaim is not required. Multiple booths can be used for optimal efficiency and to eliminate color changeovers, sometimes with short color runs and consistently in high production runs. For long color runs, a reclaim cartridge-style booth, or cyclone recovery system booth, is typically the best fit.
The third question to address is whether or not your booth will be used for strictly powder coatings, or powder and liquid coatings. Due to the different requirements for liquid and powder coatings, manufacturers typically don’t have one paint booth to apply both types. However, for manufacturers with lower production requirements, a dual-use booth can save time on the production line for some applications. As the name states, dual-use booths accommodate both liquid and powder coatings—but it requires careful design and it’s critical to consult your spray booth designer.
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