Manufacturers need to find the perfect finish for their metal products. Learn if powder coating or paint is the better option ...

If you don’t yet have a toaster oven you can’t use with food, here’s yet another reason: DIY powder coating. Powder coating is much harder and more durable than paint – a property imbued to it by the ...

[Bob] needed an oven for powder coating metal parts. Commercial ovens can cost thousands of dollars, which [Bob] didn’t have. He did have an rusty old file cabinet though. And thus, a plan was born.

Many new materials have been developed, but steel remains the principal construction material for automobiles, appliances, and industrial machinery. Because of steel's vulnerability to attack by ...

Like 90 percent of powder coating users in the U.S., Harden uses the electrostatic spray process, in which the dry particles are electrically charged. The positively charged particles adhere to a ...

A family of conductive Noryl GTX resins is formulated for powder coatings. Noryl GTX resins are modified polyphenylene ether (PPE)/polyamide (PA) resin blends that combine PPE's dimensional stability, ...

As composites practitioners well know, tooling for composite parts is a challenge. Metal tools are the most robust option and support rate production, but they need to be carefully engineered to match ...

Perhaps the most susceptible parts of any car to road damage are the frame and suspension components. Besides the normal rain, dirt, and other road debris, there are the usual oils, grease, and ...