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To help the powder coating stick, the team at Powder Coating Plus LLC first cleans your product of any old finishes as well as dirt, oils, and other contaminants. A special wash process also micro-etches your product's surface to ensure the powder sticks better. Finally, an electrostatic process is used to charge the powder while your product is attached to a ground wire allowing the coating to stick to the metal while it is baked in our oven.

There are many different types of powder, so it is important to consider the item you're coating before deciding on the powder that's right for you. For example, outdoor finishes are designed to hold up in all weather conditions, including rain, snow, heat, cold, and UV rays. They are also rust-inhibiting to protect the look and feel of the product making outdoor powders great for outdoor equipment and vehicles.

 

Indoor powders are slightly different protecting against chips, scratches, and everyday wear and tear instead of the elements. They are highly customizable with special mixtures that combine maximum durability with a texturized appearance.

 

Whether an indoor or outdoor powder is best for your product, you can rest assured all types of powder coatings are extremely strong and durable with the ability to withstand the harshest conditions and still maintain its picture-perfect look.

Yes, because the price of a particular color of powder depends on several factors, including the availability, ingredients, and supplier. Stock colors will generally cost less than harder-to-find colors that have to be special ordered. Other powders have unique properties that make them more expensive, such as textures, candies, metallics, and glow-in-the-dark products. The cost of the powder is only one factor, however. Setup labor and item processing also factor into the total cost of your powder coating service.

Yes. Because the process lets us create different surfaces and wrinkles without any extra work, an ever-increasing selection of textures is available at no additional cost. You can even add veins and hammertones, which are streaks of different colors that appear throughout your product to add dimension.

No. Because the product must be baked at temperatures of more than 400 degrees, there are many materials that wouldn't survive, such as wood, plastic, and rubber. It is recommended that the product being powder coated be constructed of some sort of metal or something that can survive the high temperature of the oven. The size of your product should also be taken into account as our oven is 8'x8'x20' and any product you want to powder coat needs to be within these dimensions to fit in the oven.

It is generally more cost effective to have your product powder coated once than to paint it numerous times during its lifespan. Some other reasons to choose powder coating over wet spray painting include:

Yes. Our team will remove old finishes as well as dirt, rust, or anything else on the surface to prepare it for powder coating.

Yes. For an additional setup charge, our team will simply powder coat one color at a time and mask off the places that are different colors. If your product can be broken down into smaller pieces, powdering it with several different colors would be much easier and the overall quality would be much more consistent.