Laser Cured Powder Coating

Laser your file onto the panel.

Laser cured powder coating.

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. Powder coat laser engrave and powder coat with a clear coat to protect from rust. Finally rheological measurements and. 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.

Powders requiring 10 15 min at cure temperature in a convection oven reportedly cure within 2 4 min in an ir oven. Do the final cure in this case it is an oven. 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. Our specialized in house 7 stage powder coating system was designed to deliver an unbeatable product pre treatment for a superior end product.

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. Powder coat stock nissan pathfinder rims. When paper met printing we had books. Engraving and cutting flat and rotary.

The picture above shows a panel on the left that has not been cured and one on the right that has been cured. Next jump on a laser and put in your design. Oven cured at 325 450 f. The result is a cured fused powder on top of the acrylic.

Laser curing has been studied as a function of laser intensity laser beam size and. The final product is very high resolution and super durable. Powder coat finishes can be reached at 410 675 0743. We operate quality fiber and co2 lasers.

Line shape focused laser experiments demonstrated that both liquid voc free coatings and solid powder coatings can be cured. Oven cured between 200 300 f some applications require 5 day air cure. 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. The results are really quite nice and it appears to look like colored acrylics.

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. Plus our dual coat powder system allows both gel and topcoat to be applied at once greatly reducing production time. You don t need a lot of imagination to foresee the future. The curing schedule could vary according to the manufacturer s specifications.

Wash off the excess powder coat. Mild to high temperature applications. Curing of thermosetting powder coating is conventionally done in a convection or infrared oven. Curing of solid powder coatings occurs with a curing rate of 3 6 m min 1 opening the possibility to introduce nir laser curing as a new technology in coating sciences.

This applies to stripping and or applying a premium powder coat finish.