Iranian Company Produces Powder Coatings, Electrostatic Paints
“This research complex is recognized as the first knowledge-based company in the field of electrostatic powder coating production in Iran,” said Ehsan Wahhabi Aqababayee, the quality control manager of the company.
“All types of tests, quality control and design and manufacturing of all kinds of paints are carried out in the laboratory department of this company,” he added.
“A variety of laboratory services like the test to determine the gloss in paints and surface coatings, the test to measure the amount of gloss, thickness and dry film, measuring the strength and gloss of various types of coatings at different angles and measuring the thickness of multilayer coatings are a part of the laboratory services that can be provided in this company,” Wahhabi Aqababayee said.
Electrostatic coating is a manufacturing process that employs charged particles to more efficiently paint a workpiece. Paint, in the form of either powdered particles or atomized liquid, is initially projected towards a conductive workpiece using normal spraying methods, and is then accelerated toward the work piece by a powerful electrostatic charge.
An addition to the electrostatic coating (or e-coating) process is dipping electrically conductive parts into a tank of paint that is then electrostatically charged. The ionic bond of the paint to the metal creates the paint coating, in which its thickness is directly proportional to the length of time the parts are left in the tank and the time the charge remains active. Once the parts are removed from the paint tank, they are rinsed off to remove any residual paint that is not ionically bonded, leaving a thin film of electrostatically bonded paint on the surface of the part.
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