Using Industrial Powder Coating for a Quality Finish

With 150 years of combined experience, our team provides our customers just the kind of expertise you are looking for with industrial powder coatings. At Secoa Technology, we manufacture many types of coatings designed to protect metals from wear and tear.

Just as one would expect, an industrial powder coating is applied dry to the desired area, no solvent necessary. As the powder cures it forms a strong, durable layer that incases the metal. The end result is a remarkable product that increases your equipment’s resistance to heat, corrosion, and general degradation. The high gloss finish and various options available make industrial powder coating ideal for a number of industries.

Industry Uses

Our high-precision machine plastics are perfect for agriculture, construction, appliances, fabrication, automotive, and HVAC. These industries and many more benefit from powder coating protection. Actually, any industry where degradation from environmental, chemical, and industrial issues have the potential to benefit from the metal finishing.

These finishes are an investment that offer long term protection to your equipment and ultimately your business. By using metal finishing, companies are able to prolong the life span and quality of their equipment. These cost saving benefits range from equipment protection to the cost benefits of an environmentally friendly assembly line.

Costs

Because powder coatings do not require the use of a chemical solvent, they actually can provide reduced costs compared to industry standards. There is no need for additional costs associated with properly disposing of solvents. Proper disposal of solvents is required according to EPA laws (Environmental Protection Agency) and OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) guidelines.

There are no additional costs associated with disposal simply because there is no solvent to dispose. The need for one has been eliminated along with the corresponding cost of doing business.

These finishings are great for assembly application methods such as:

Hot-flocking
Electrostatic
Fluidized bed
High build wet coatings

With a drive to exceed our customer’s needs and a hunger for increasing our knowledge, Secoa Technology is your source for durable metal finishing solutions. Industrial powder coating is a vital component in today’s manufacturing world. Let our team help you to find the right coating that suits your industrial needs.

June 20, 2016May 13, 2019

Invest in an Epoxy Powder Coating for Surface Protection

At Secoa Technology, we provide our customers with the highest quality material selections available. We are the machined plastics experts when it comes to material compatibility with chemicals. The reason is, plastics machining is the only thing we do.

In the field of industrial metal finishing, our team has utilized our combined years of experience to become the expert in a number of areas, including epoxy powder coating.

An epoxy powder coating is an excellent choice for wet applications:

Waste treatment
Water valves
Other metal coatings

Surface Protection

Powder coatings provide a protective layer that stands up to external forces. Epoxies are great at shedding water and moisture. The strengthened surfaces they offer are attributed to the hard bond that develops during the application curing process.

When it comes to metal coatings, we remain focused on reducing infrastructure degradation. Research shows that the common factors that lead to steel degradation are chemical reactions, moisture, UV exposure, oxidation, and general wear and tear. Powder coatings are designed to reduce these risks by providing a protective layer that will resistant to corrosion, impact, and general degradation.

The Benefits of Technology Advancements

Our advanced technology provides a low-cost protective plastic finishing that will save both time and money. We have listened to our customers as they explain to us the biggest problem they have with other plastics machining vendors. As a result, we have combined our expertise to provide smooth, burr-free coatings that eliminates the primary issues in the coating field: clarity and stress cracking.

At Secoa Technology, we provide thin to thick epoxy powder coating options designed for hot flocking, Electro-static, Fluidized bed, and Fluoropolymers.

Investing in powder coatings to protect equipment insures that you are taking every step necessary to ensure your operation runs smoothly and efficiently, with reduced risks for error and as economically as possible. Metal finishing goes beyond short-term applications. They protect manufacturing and construction infrastructure for long-term strength and durability.

Whether you are looking for a prototype or mass order, our team relies on our mission of expanding our knowledge in the metal coatings industry to provide cutting edge quality products.

June 13, 2016May 13, 2019

Adding a Nylon Powder Coating Protects Your Business

In every business, a portion of the budget is delegated to maintaining equipment, and if necessary, replacing worn out or broken materials. One way to reduce the overhead operational costs in a business is by treating metal equipment with Nylon powder coating. Protecting metal components used in daily business operations increases the durability, safety, and longevity of a device.

Uses of Nylon Powder Coating

Some practical ways to implement Nylon powder coating in a business include equipment from various fields such as dental, medical, aeronautical, and industrial organizations. Adding this finish to materials used in fields that impact customer’s health increases protection from chemicals or degradation. By eliminating the corrosion of materials, clients will by less likely to endure harmful side effects due to a faulty apparatus.

Another benefit of safeguarding equipment is to maximize the efficiency of business operations, such as in the aeronautical or industrial industries, which are consistently exposed to active production procedures and conditions.

Nylon powder coating protects equipment from environmental impacts while functioning. For example, moisture, oxidation, and UV rays can be regulated through technological programs, but added extra coverage reduces the damage from these influences.

This product provides a smooth, disturbance free industrial coating, which helps to elevate the integrity and function of your business. Finally, it is a critical addition that helps your company save money.

What Makes Us Different

At Secoa Technology, our experienced professionals can facilitate your company by implementing the appropriate Nylon Power Coating to accommodate your business requests.

In addition to providing knowledgeable customer service, we provide a quality product at a fair price. The finishing products are manufactured in an environmentally friendly facility, which further promotes a more sustainable lifestyle.

Since Secoa Technology has pioneered positive changes in the industrial finishing industry, we have also developed manufacturing and distribution techniques to help deliver customers’ parts quickly.

Furthermore, it is important to help produce a quality finishing product that also helps promote a better business structure for your company. By supplying nylon powder coating at a fair price, this implementation helps reduce the time spent on changing equipment. Additionally, the quality of industry instruments will be operating at a more efficient standard, which helps overall production.

June 9, 2016October 6, 2020

Choosing Corrosion Resistant Coatings Just Makes Sense

At Secoa Technology, we realize that corrosion plays a key role in reducing the stability and integrity of metals. Corrosion cannot be predicted. However, we can assist you reduce the risks associated with corrosion. All with the simple addition of corrosion resistant coating to your assembly.

We provide our customers with high-precision, machined plastics. We use only the highest quality materials. Our years of experience and drive for continuous improvement have made us experts in material compatibility with chemicals as well as assembly applications.

Industry Applications

One of our core programs is to provide customers with protective products that will protect their manufacturing and construction components for years to come. With both dry and wet applications available and an expansive line of use-specific coatings. These metal finishings can be used to expand equipment’s life expectancy in a variety of industries, not limited to:

Waste Treatment
Water Valves
Food Industries
Municipal
Architectural
Aerospace
Agriculture

Corrosion Resistant coating work specifically to protect from deterioration contributed to harmful UV rays, moisture, chemical reactions, oxidation, and environmental exposure. In addition to providing protection, metal finishings also provide solvent resistance, abrasion resistance, anti-friction benefits, and durability.

Our product line offers coatings that are harder than nickel-based coatings and superior to hard chromium. We provide an anti-rust coating with superior protection. We at Secoa Technology realize that every customer has a different need. That is why our team works to help our customers select the right finishing depending on your industry needs and equipment usage.

Thinking Long Term

Protecting your machinery and equipment against corrosion is a long-term investment in the future of your company. Corrosion Resistant coating help to keep your machinery running at its optimum quality and expand its overall life expectancy. This protective investment means that you are taking steps now to save production costs for years to come. It is a simple step of preventative maintenance.

To protect your business, you do not want to invest in a below standard corrosion resistant coating for your equipment that contains stress cracks, lacks clarity, and is flawed. For a reliable finish that is both cutting edge and top quality in the metal finishing industry let our Secoa Technology team help you.

May 31, 2016May 13, 2019

Why You Should Use an Epoxy Powder Coating

Powder coatings are becoming increasingly popular in the coatings market for the coating of metals. Ranging from a child’s first bicycle in pink to a massive pipeline channeling oil across vast distances, an epoxy powder coating can protect against repeated mechanical stresses, weather, and other environmental challenges often faced by the end-use application. At Secoa Technology, we are one of the most reliable finishing companies in the industry and can provide the proper protective coating that can prevent the formation of chips, cracks, rust, and blisters which can lead to failure of the material being coated.

Basic Features of Epoxy Coating

An epoxy is created by polymerizing or combining a resin and a hardener with a specified catalyst. The result is a curing process in which an epoxy is produced that has high mechanical properties, and great temperature and chemical resistance. The chemistry of epoxies and variations in the curing process enable them to be created with a very broad range of properties. In addition, these properties can be modified for greater thermal insulation, or thermal conductivity combined with high electrical resistance depending on the application. At Secoa Technology, we can create a coating for your application that fits best within your project budget.

Epoxy Powder Coating Benefits

There are numerous benefits to using an industrial epoxy powder coating.

Powder coatings made from epoxy are a tough, lasting, and durable coating for metals. Their excellent hardness and resistance to impact and abrasions improves the performance of products over liquid coatings. They help maintain the performance of important equipment so production can run efficiently which ultimately improves the bottom line.

The process to make powder coatings ensures that their appearance and color is consistent throughout. This can be important when aesthetics and decoration play a significant role in the application.

An epoxy powder coating has insulation properties that make it effective as a high dielectric insulator on copper or aluminum conductors. For cable installations, it negates concerns of cut-through or high-voltage spikes providing an insulation that reduces the need for costly and time-consuming lamination processes.

At Secoa Technology, we have over 50 years of experience in the coatings industry and can work with you to formulate a coating for your specific application, whether it is prolonged exposure to sunlight, resistance to chipping, the ability to survive in highly corrosive environments, or any other need you may have.

January 21, 2016December 20, 2022

Industrial Coating & Metal Finishing by Secoa Technology

Types of Industrial Coating & Metal Finishing

Release Coatings

Allow machine parts to perform consistently without locking up
Application offers design versatility
Reduce or eliminates noise
Reduce coefficient of friction
Types of release coatings include:

FluoroClad XIII
FluoroClad SDFC^TM:
FluoroClad 16 (MMT)

Corrosion Resistant Coatings

Offer both corrosive and chemical protection
Engineered to protect important components from degradation caused by:

- - Moisture
  - Oxidation
  - UV rays
  - Exposure to a variety of industrial or environmental chemicals

Will aid in improving the life expectancy of equipment
Offer a variety of benefits, including:

- - Solvent resistance
  - Abrasion resistance
  - Durability
  - Lubricating properties

Powder Coating Services
- Delivers Frictionless Abrasion Resistance
- Liquid auto-catalytic hard plating system
- Incredibly wear-resistant and durable
- Anti-corrosive options can be utilized in a variety of ways, including:

Hot flocking
Electro-static
Fluidized bed
A variety of fluoropolymers (high-build wet coatings)

Current line of anti-corrosive and chemical products includes:

Rilsan ® Nylon 11
Epoxy
Plascoat
KF Polymer
UltraSeal™
Diamonite Anti-Rust Coating

Harder than other nickel-based coatings
Provides a uniform, anti-rust coating that eliminates burnishing (or post-plate grinding)
Its overall wear properties are superior to those of hard chromium
Hardness range between 68-72 Rc
Works well with dry film lubricants
0.44 coefficient of friction

Nickel Boron Coating

Offers Superior Protection
Electroless nickel plating technology

Industrial Coating & Metal Finishing / Plating Applications

Textile and carpet businesses
Mold-making
Automotive (inner and outer hubs, transmission thrust washers, etc.)
Aerospace (variable vanes, landing gear components, etc.)
Oil and Gas (downhole oil pumps and ball valves)
Firearms (bolt & carrier groups (BCG’s), trigger mechanisms, etc.)
Forestry (saw blades and log saw blades)

About Secoa Technology

Reliable finishing company for 50 years
Based in Dalton, GA
Mission is to continuously expand knowledge of metal coatings
Team possesses the skill to anodize, plate, and coat metals
Management team possesses over 130 years of collective experience in the industry
Has the largest process oven for powder coating in the Southeast

December 10, 2015December 14, 2022

The Power and Durability of Polyester Powder Coating

There are many types of durable powder coating solutions that protect steel and other metals from corrosion. Manufacturers understand the degradation of metal from harmful UV rays, moisture, oxidation, environmental and industrial chemical reactions can cause severe harm to their equipments. The good news is, commercial suppliers like us can formulate and provide you with durable coatings to protect your components and parts. At Secoa Technology, that’s what we do. If you think metal coatings doesn’t apply to you, think again. Here are just a few of the industries that count on the protection that polyester powder coating delivers, for example:

Bridge Builders
Railways
Automotive
Agricultural Farming
Transportation Signs
Commodity Hardware
Construction
Window Fabrication
HVAC
Household Appliances

Science Behind Powder Coatings

As the name suggests, powder coating is a dry application. Unlike their liquid coating counterparts, a dry application does not require a chemical solvent. A polyester powder coating is durable, tough, and provides a high gloss finish with exceptional resistance to corrosion and heat. Typically, polyester powder coating is used to manufacture highway railings, train rails, galvanized metals, bicycles, auto parts, farm equipment and many other outdoor products. Take away the need for a chemical solvent and this provides manufacturers with a an environmentally friendly product assembly line.

Cost Benefit

Any manufacturer who relies on specialty coatings knows the cost associated with safely disposing of chemical solvents. U.S. manufacturers adhere to strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) laws and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines to insure a safe environment. This includes adherence to the disposal of these chemicals. As any business owner will tell you, there are cost benefits to using “dry” polyester powder coating in their manufacturing processes.

Dry vs. Fluidity

There are other relatively standard blend powder coatings available. These include nylon, epoxy, or fusion powder coatings. We not only provide powder coatings, but a range of other standard fluid coatings and special formulations. Some of the standard coatings and application processes on the market include:

Electroless Nickel Plating
Fluoropolymer Coating
Diamonite Finishing
Nickel Boron Coating
UltraSeal Coating
Rilsan Nylon 11 Coating
NiB-One Finishing

At Secoa Technology, we provide manufacturing industries with dry and fluid-based coating solutions. We enjoy the challenge of developing a cost-effective formulation that meets our client’s specifications. We take pride in our work to pinpoint the right coating that prevents the costly effects of corrosion.

November 2, 2015December 14, 2022

Protect Against Corrosion with Epoxy Powder Coating

The U.S. manufacturing industry is at the heart of the U.S economy, providing equipment to build infrastructure and deliver consumer products to both rural and urban city centers. Most companies operating in this sector count on industrial coatings and plating suppliers to protect their equipment and public works infrastructure from corrosion. For example, many elements can cause the degradation of steel, which include:

Moisture
Oxidation
Environmental Chemical Reactions
Industrial Chemical Reactions
Sun’s UV Rays
General Corrosion

Formulating the Right Industrial Coating

For construction site or assembly line equipment, commercial coating suppliers generate standard and specialty coatings to protect metals in a wide range of applications. Epoxy powder coating, for example, provides a dry application which removes the need for a chemical solvent to create a liquid solution. A dry coating creates a hard finish that is tough, durable and stands up to corrosion. Suppliers develop advanced formulas and produce superior coatings for all types of commercial applications. There are various types of powder coatings that keep components operational and corrosion from developing, including:

Electrostatically Sprayed Polyester
Nylon
Fluidized Bed, Nylon
Epoxy Powder Coating
Nonstick Coating

Exceed Warranty Expirations by Investing in Quality Coatings

Building owners and occupants often times don’t think about broken sewer lines or the facility’s durability to events such as earthquakes. Before your company hands over a new building, be sure your coating and plating supplier can deliver the right formulations. This will keep your equipment and structures operational long after the warranty expires.

Penny Wise and Pound Foolish

Keeping the assembly line moving and the crane erectors going is essential for managing costs, delivery schedules and contract expectations. Downtime erodes profits and puts businesses at risk. We, at Secoa Technology, specialize in finding the right coating solution for your needs. With 50 years of experience, we are high performance industrial coaters with a passion for pinpointing the right formulation coating that keeps corrosion away. Do it right the first time. Be sure to select a supplier that specializes in metal coatings and platings. Choose Secoa Technology: we take pride in providing our customers with cost effective, quality coating solutions.

October 5, 2015December 14, 2022

Performance and Cost Make Industrial Powder Coating Attractive

Powder coating is a dry finishing process that has become extremely popular for industrial and other applications since it was first introduced in North America over 40 years ago. Powder coatings have been used by numerous companies in giving their products a durable finish of high quality that minimizes maintenance, allows for maximized production, and facilitates environmental compliance. Our industrial powder coating applications withstand heavy use and provide maximum protection for products and components at lower prices than other types of coatings.

How Industrial Powder Coating Works

Polymer resin systems combined with curatives, pigments, flow modifiers, leveling agents, and other additives make up powder coatings. These ingredients are melted down, mixed, cooled, and ground into a uniform powder. Electrostatic spray deposition is then used to apply the coating to a metal object by means of a spray gun, similar to a paint gun. The powder coming out of the gun has a mild negative charge. The object itself must be cleaned and free of any dirt, grease, or oil, and connected to a small electrode, imparting a very mild positive electrical charge. Since the powder and the product have opposite charges, the particles of the powder will be attracted to the product. A curing oven is then used where the powder coating chemically reacts to produce long molecular chains, which are very resistant. This process can be used for both metallic and non-metallic objects and substrates, such as medium-density fiberboard and plastics.

Durability of Industrial Powder Coating

At Secoa Technology, we enjoy finding solutions and pinpointing the perfect coating for the needs of our customers. We are able to make powder coatings in an almost limitless range of colors and textures, providing excellent performance properties. In addition to being used on the toughest and roughest machinery, powder coatings are used on many household items that people use on a daily basis. They are more durable than liquid paints but are equally as attractive. The powder-coated products we have are more resistant to moisture, impact, ultraviolet light, chemicals, and other extreme weather conditions than most coatings on the market.

September 28, 2015October 6, 2020

News: Nylon Powder Coating for a Wide Range of Applications

Nylon is a product that is manufactured from the oil of the Castor plant. It is considered a top quality, resilient, and environmentally sound product. It offers a superior finish and is resistant to oils and other chemicals. It is often used in the food and water industries, as well as in the manufacturing of public transportation vehicles. Often times it is used for rails, handles, and seats.

At Secoa Technology, the nylon we use in our nylon powder coating is a high-performance technical polymer. It is used in the most demanding of applications, as it has excellent physical, chemical, mechanical, and thermal properties.

Types of Nylon Powder Coating

There are two types of nylon powder: thermoset and thermoplastic. Some catalysts in thermosets are heat sensitive. Once applied to the surface of an object, these coatings begin to melt when the temperature reaches 250 to 275 degrees Fahrenheit. Once a temperature of 350 degrees is reached, a chemical transformation occurs in the nylon coating that creates a flexible plastic coating, which becomes extremely strong.

With thermoplastic nylon powders, an object is heated passed the melting point of the nylon coating and the powder is applied thereafter. At this point, the coating instantly fuses to the surface of the object. This is the most non-corrosive, chemically resistant, and most common type of nylon coating.

Application

There are two ways to apply a nylon powder coating. One is by using a fluidized bed technique. This consists of using a pool of nylon powder coat that has been pulverized into fine powder, which then has a gas passed through it in order to make it a fluid. The object to be coated is then heated to the correct temperature and dipped into the fluidized powder.

The other way is by means of an electrostatic spray. This method uses a spray gun that charges the ions inside the plastic powder electrically. The powder is then sprayed at room temperature and later heated. We use both of these methods to create an impact and abrasion-resistant coating that is strong, with a low coefficient of friction.