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Simple as a Powder Application! Marie-Anne Guilldou SAMES KREMLIN – Pioltello (Milan), Italy marie-anne.guilldou@sames-kremlin.com
High utilisation rate, low environmental impact, quality of finish, cost reduction... Powder coating would be an ideal solution if its application was not hampered by a multitude of practical details. SAMES KREMLIN is doing something about this with Inocoat, a new automatic and manual range that plays the simplicity card.
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owder coating is on the upswing: market studies promise an annual growth of 6.3% per year by 2025, compared to 5.4% for all paints. Its growth is driven by several sectors: household
appliances, car parts, shipbuilding, oil and gas industry, and so on.
Powder, so efficient but so complex to apply There are several reasons for this craze. Firstly, paint that has not set
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on the part to be treated does not dry; it can be recovered and used. Secondly, the powder is safe: no volatile organic compounds, no risk of storage, and reduced exposure for the operator. It is also known for its finish quality, its resistance to flaking, scratching and discolouration, and for the properties it can give to surfaces: anti-graffiti, antimicrobial, anti-corrosion, resistance to abrasion, heat, etc. Finally, powder is 10 to 30% cheaper than liquid paint depending on the parts and quantities. However, the application of powder paint is not simple. Adjusting the projection parameters is delicate, the distance between the part and the gun is accurate to the nearest millimetre, the paint jet is not always stable, some part geometries require pre-touches or retouches.
Compatible with all fieldbuses “Inocoat was designed to overcome these obstacles” explains Laurent Magnier, range manager at SAMES KREMLIN. “We innovate in terms of productivity, application quality, ease of integration and use. 17 beta tests conducted in Europe and Latin America validated this choice”. This range is very complete. In the automatic version, it includes a cabin, self-positioners and reciprocators, an electrostatic bell, a powder unit that can be replaced by a simple tank, a control module and, of course, spray guns.
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