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Unlike liquid coating processes whereby liquid paints are used to do the coating, powder coating can only be achieved by the use of a dry powder. Whereas the pain coating requires the use of a solvent to dissolve the paint, powder coating doesn’t require any solvent and this implies that the coating is fully achieved by the use of a dry powder. To make the powder coat to flow over the surface of the object being coated, a curing process of the powder has to be induced by the use of heat. As we shall discuss, powder coatings have several benefits over the conventional liquid paint coatings, as we shall see shortly.
Firstly, the issue of volatile organic components is a bygone for powder coatings. The volatile organic components have a great potential for degradation of the environment due to their pollutant nature. With the presence of less contaminants in the coatings, there is a chance for a safe environment for both of us to inhabit. The fact that the powder coatings do not release any pollutants also relieves the company the burden of having to install equipment to manage pollution of the kind of volatile organic components. This gives these industries the chance to concentrate their resources on only what is necessary for them.
Secondly, powder coatings are able to give a tougher and a thicker coating than the conventional paint coatings. The advantage of having a thick and a tough coat is that the object being coated is protected from external factors that could lead to it wearing out easily. Furthermore, a tougher coating rarely requires any replacements to be done on it and this reduces the costs of production. The appearance of the coated object is also retained over a long period of time owing to the fact that no coating replacements need to be done on the object.
The other advantage of powder coating is that it makes it easy for designers to come up with more design patterns as opposed to the case of liquid painting. Owing to this fact, the clients are better served by the designers and this leads to their satisfaction-something that cannot be achieved in the conventional paint coating.
Lastly, as opposed to the liquid paint coatings, powder coatings do not require much curing process and time. In the case of the liquid paints, the curing process has to be done by the use of natural elements such as cold air flowing over the coated object and this process is unregulated and slow. The purpose of the dry air is to force the paint coat to dry and stick to the coated object. For powder coating however, the curing process is usually regulatable and can be induced by the production team in order to force a quicker curing process which eliminates unnecessary time losses in the production cycle.
