Selective Powder Coating Services
Artistic Plating is an industry leader in providing selective powder coating services to fulfill even the most demanding engineering applications. Where most powder coating job shops avoid the demands of selective powder coating services – Artistic welcomes the opportunity to provide the solution. Over our thirty-year history in providing powder coating services, Artistic has refined a wide range of masking techniques to provide unmatched selective powder coating services.
Nearly 85% of all active powder coating jobs at Artistic Plating require some degree of masking with most jobs requiring extensive masking application. A wide range of selectivepowder coating techniques can be provided to mask surfaces to your specifications including rack shielding, mating components or fasteners application, custom die-cut tapes, standard silicon masks and custom molded masks.
Selective Powder Coating Services – Why Selective Powder Coating?
Powder coating is a highly-durable painting process that has found diverse application in manufacturing today. One of the key advantages of powder paint is the higher mil-thickness over standard wet apply paints. Although this is an advantage from a corrosion and durability standpoint, it presents considerable fit and function issues of mating components.
The list below summarizes common applications of selective powder coating services:
- Sliding Wear: Powder coating, although durable for a paint process, does not have hardness sufficient for most sliding or wear applications. Selective powder coating prevents coating build on critical wear surfaces.
Fitment: Powder coating builds an average thickness of 0.001-0.003 inches per side. The range and magnitude of coating thickness is an inherent coating property. As such, if this build is a concern for functional surfaces, selective powder coating will be required. - Sealing Surfaces: Due to the fact that powder paint is an organic coating it does not work well with sealing of gasket materials on sealing surfaces. To ensure proper function most gasket or seal surfaces require selective powder coating.
- Conductive Surfaces: Powder coating is relatively thick organic coating and as such is both an electrical and thermal insulator. Many powder coated components used in the electronics, telecommunications and powder distribution industries must be masked at locations designed to pass current or heat such as grounding points, heat sinks or terminal contacts.
Artistic Plating welcomes the opportunity to provide selective powder coating services for your paint application. Our dedicated engineering team can work in association with your design and engineering staff to determine the best methods and techniques to provide the selective finish. For additional information please visit our contact us section or you can forward your current request via our online request for quote.
