Professional powder coating provides a smooth, attractive finish for many different kinds of products, including furniture, appliances, automobiles and more. Powder coatings serve many functions, because they are protective as well as decorative. From the consumer’s point of view, environmentally-friendly powder coatings are a strong selling point. Let’s take a look at some of the advantages of powder coating finishes.
What are powder coatings?
Professional powder coating is a popular finish used for many different products, including furniture, automobiles, appliances etc. This is the fastest growing sector of the finishing industry and makes up about 15% of the total industrial finishing market. The global value of professional powder coating is expected to rise to about $ 2.48 billion in 2020. The largest part of this market is appliances, which account for about one third of all products with this finish.
Powder coating processes do not require liquid solvents. They are a 100% dry coating processes, which makes them an environmentally friendly choice. This also makes them an economical choice, while giving a professional finish and protection to products like appliances and furniture.
What makes professional powder coating environmentally-friendly?
Unlike liquid coatings, powder coatings do not require any liquids in their formulation. This means that they do not contain any solvents, which are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that give off toxic fumes. Fumes from VOCs in paints and finishes used for household products have been associated with health problems. They’re also harmful for the environment and contribute to air pollution.
Powder coatings have negligible emissions of VOC fumes, making them a good choice for homes, especially homes where there are children and pets, or where the homeowners are eco-conscious. Further, the dry powder coating process uses up to 50% less energy than finishes that contain liquid solvents.
Other benefits of professional powder coatings
Besides being more environmentally friendly than liquid coatings, powder coatings are also more economical. They use new technology including automation which helps to cut down labor costs and material usage.
The technology also allows for recovery and reuse of extra material, which keeps chemicals out of landfills. Improved overall efficiency results in lower costs for high quality protection.
Professional powder coatings are an economical and environmentally-friendly choice for finishes for a range of product. With all of these advantages, industry professionals like project managers, buyers, engineers, designers, architects, metal manufacturers and fabricators and plastic mold injectors are increasingly choosing powder coatings for finishes for their products.