Laser Cured Powder Coating

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Laser cured powder coating.

Powder coat finishes can be reached at 410 675 0743. Over curing may result in cracks and breaks in the powder coating s finish forcing you to sandblast the powder coating and start all over. The curing schedule could vary according to the manufacturer s specifications. Mild to high temperature applications.

Curing of thermosetting powder coating is conventionally done in a convection or infrared oven. The results are really quite nice and it appears to look like colored acrylics. Finally rheological measurements and. Powders requiring 10 15 min at cure temperature in a convection oven reportedly cure within 2 4 min in an ir oven.

Oven cured at 325 450 f. Oven cured between 200 300 f some applications require 5 day air cure. You don t need a lot of imagination to foresee the future. Engraving and cutting flat and rotary.

Powder coat laser engrave and powder coat with a clear coat to protect from rust. When paper met full color printing we had a new world of printed art and photos when powder coating met ap lazer a new era of powder graphics was born. The application of energy to the product to be cured can be accomplished by convection cure ovens infrared cure ovens or by laser curing process. When paper met printing we had books.

Wash off the excess powder coat. The piece of acrylic is first engraved with a raster pattern at standard speed power and then powder coat power is placed on the piece and the operation is re run but at a higher speed and lighter power. This applies to stripping and or applying a premium powder coat finish. Our specialized in house 7 stage powder coating system was designed to deliver an unbeatable product pre treatment for a superior end product.

Plus our dual coat powder system allows both gel and topcoat to be applied at once greatly reducing production time. It has been shown that it is possible to achieve a much faster curing by using a cw co 2 laser. Laser curing has been studied as a function of laser intensity laser beam size and. Also note that thinner areas of your product will cure faster than thicker areas so you will want to keep an eye on it so that it cooks just long enough for the thickest part to reach proper temperature.

Laser your file onto the panel. The latter demonstrates significant reduction of curing time. Powder coating doesn t seem to carry over a gradient so try and make a design 2 colors black and white like a stencil otherwise you may get mixed results. The picture above shows a panel on the left that has not been cured and one on the right that has been cured.

So first powder coat the color you want. The final product is very high resolution and super durable. Do the final cure in this case it is an oven. Powder coat stock nissan pathfinder rims.

Line shape focused laser experiments demonstrated that both liquid voc free coatings and solid powder coatings can be cured.