Powder Coatings Industry Solutions

Powder coatings are used mainly in the durable goods markets, including motor vehicles, appliances and housewares, furniture, industrial machinery, and lawn and garden equipment. The automotive market offers excellent prospects for powder coatings, particularly in new applications such as exterior primer and clearcoats. Although powder coatings represent just seven percent of the worldwide coatings market, by most industry estimates this $3.6 billion industry (worldwide revenue 2003) has been quite successful in replacing liquid coatings in a number of key markets including appliances, wood and metal coatings. Particle size is a critical parameter in assuring optimal production and application of the coatings.

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	Powder Coatings Industry Overview Powder paints are one of the newest commonly used forms of coating. Find out more about how they are produced and applied and why particle size is so important in modern powder coatings production and application.
	Powder Coatings Industry Concerns In an intensely competitive market product quality and consistency are key. Optimizing mill and classifier performance, particularly during transient operation (start-up and product changeover), requires continuous particle size analysis.
	Malvern powder coatings analyzers and automation Powder coatings particles tend to be fragile, soft and cohesive making reliable particle size data generation a challenge. Malvern has a complete range of on-line, at-line, and laboratory particle characterization systems specifically designed to meet the requirements of the powder coatings industry.
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	Case study Mill overloading reduced by process understanding.
	Case study Mill optimization for pilot drug trials.
	Case study Reducing process start-up times.
	Case study Mineral mill optimization.