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Coating Solutions for Plastic Surfaces with Optimized Characteristics
1 Figure 1: PaintExpo will present solutions for coatings on plastic surfaces at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre (Germany) from the 17th through the 20th of April, 2018.
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n the one hand ever stricter demands for surface finishes, and on the other hand rising cost pressure – this balancing act for coatings on plastic surfaces can only be mastered by means of consistent process optimisation. PaintExpo will present solutions to this end at the Karlsruhe Exhibition Centre from the 17th through the 20th of April, 2018 (Fig. 1). Offerings range from pre-treatment, application systems, equipment and paints, right on up to quality control, identification and packaging. Due to numerous factors, companies
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with in-house painting operations and coating job-shops are facing new challenges where the painting of plastic surfaces is concerned: immaculate appearance and haptics, greater durability, smaller lot quantities and a growing multitude of colours resulting from advancing individualisation, new and further developed materials required for lightweight design and electromobility, integration of the painting process into networked manufacturing, improved sustainability and energy efficiency to mention just a few. And all of this has to
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be accomplished in the face of rising cost pressure within an increasingly globalised market. And thus solutions for painting plastic parts in various industry sectors and applications represent a significant exhibition segment at PaintExpo 2018, for which 410 companies had already made firm bookings at the end of August 2017. Optimisation potential begins already during pre-treatment. Traditional power-wash systems are being replaced in this area more and more frequently with spacesaving, more ecological cleaning technologies with low operating costs such as plasma and