What is Powder Coating?

What is Powder Coating?

Powder coating is a dry finishing process that has become extremely popular since its introduction in North America over 40 years ago.  Representing over 15% of the total industrial finishing market, powder is used on a wide array of products. More and more companies specify powder coatings for a high-quality, durable finish, allowing for maximized production, improved efficiencies, and simplified environmental compliance.  Used as functional (protective) and decorative finishes, powder coatings are available in an almost limitless range of colors and textures, and technological advancements have resulted in excellent performance properties.

How Powder Coating Works?

Powder coatings are based on polymer resin systems, combined with curatives, pigments, leveling agents, flow modifiers, and other additives.  These ingredients are melt mixed, cooled, and ground into a uniform powder similar to baking flour.  A process called electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) is typically used to achieve the application of the powder coating to a metal substrate.  This application method uses a spray gun, which applies an electrostatic charge to the powder particles, which are then attracted to the grounded part.  After application of the powder coating, the parts enter a curing oven where, with the addition of heat, the coating chemically reacts to produce long molecular chains, resulting in high cross-link density. These molecular chains are very resistant to breakdown.  This type of application is the most common method of applying powders.  Powder coatings can also be applied to non-metallic substrates such as plastics and medium density fiberboard (MDF).

Sometimes a powder coating is applied during a fluidized bed application.  Preheated parts are dipped in a hopper of fluidizing powder and the coating melts, and flows out on the part.  Post cure may be needed depending on the mass and temperature of the part and the type of powder used.  No matter which application process is utilized, powder coatings are easy to use, environmentally friendly, cost effective, and tough!

Durability of Powder Coating

Powder coating is a high-quality finish found on thousands of products you come in contact with each day.  Powder coating protects the roughest, toughest machinery as well as the household items you depend on daily.  It provides a more durable finish than liquid paints can offer, while still providing an attractive finish.  Powder coated products are more resistant to diminished coating quality as a result of impact, moisture, chemicals, utraviolet light, and other extreme weather conditions. In turn, this reduces the risk of scratches, chipping, abrasions, corrosion, fading, and other wear issues.

It's tough. It looks great. And it lasts a long, long time.  In addition to being durable, powder coating is an attractive choice due to environmental advantages.

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ICIS Noida.

Is Indian chemical industry ready for green march?

The Indian chemical industry, currently valued at $ 108 billion, has been growing at a robust rate. With manufacturing landscape shifting to Asia, India, which currently accounts for only 3% share of the global chemical market, has the potential to emerge as one of the major destinations for chemical companies worldwide. But for this to happen, industry will have to improve efficiency and adhere to global environment & quality norms. 

“Sustainable development is critical to foster the growth of the Indian chemical industry. It forms the central foundation for responsible corporate governance,” said Vipul Shah, Chairman, CEO & President, Dow Chemical International Pvt Ltd. He added, “Being an energy intensive industry, which touches various aspects of human life every day, the Indian chemical industry needs global, uniform standards in environmental administration. For maximum impact,sustainability must be central to the company strategy, engrained in the culture and embedded in the reward structure. The organisation should be cognisant of where the barriers are to delivering on the goals and where the strengths are to build on.

Economic growth has been focal point of the policy makers for overall development of the country. While this is true, there has been an increased need to do it in an environmentally benign way. Balancing ecology with economy is the way forward to ensure sustainable development. Globally, the chemical industry has been one of the early adopters of eco-friendly processing by investing in green technologies.

 

R Mukundan, Managing Director, Tata Chemicals Ltd, said, “From being limited to corporate philanthropy, sustainability now is firmly embedded into all the business areas and is one of the important strategic parameters for any business decision. Given the universe we operate in, it becomes imperative that we incorporate processes that are sustainable.”

 

The Five Year Plan document (2012-2017) for the chemical industry stresses on sustainability – particularly resource and environment sustainability. Water, environmental impact, raw materials, safety over lifecycle and energy use are some of the issues grappling the industry. Indian chemical companies will have to invest in innovative solutions to find appropriate answers to these challenges.

Fuelling demand

As per the National Manufacturing Policy, the government aims to increase the share of manufacturing in GDP to at least 25% by 2025 (from current 16%). To achieve this ambitious objective, the Indian chemical industry will have to play a catalytic role.

Chemicals, the growth enablers

Regulatory developments in the end-user industries are also leading to adoption of green initiatives in the Indian chemical industry. K Jayaraman, Executive Director (Operations Consulting), PwC, India, said, “Today, the customer awareness on health consciousness and eco-friendly products has gone up. Manufacturing companies are looking at specialty chemical additives that help in improving the functionality of the product as well as reduce the environmental load either by achieving the same end product in minimum number of steps or consuming less amount of chemicals than before.”

 

Indian chemical industry has begun the journey on the green path and will have to pursue it with innovative solutions in future as well to emerge winner on the global map. 

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Coatings Industry in India Offers Opportunities for Growth

Gyan Research and Analytics Pvt. Ltd. has released a new study of the coatings industry in India that indicates there are many opportunities for growth, due in part to India’s lower per-capita coatings consumption compared to the rest of Asia. The study reports that India is emerging as one of the major participants in the global paints and coatings industry, with a market value of $4.79 billion in 2012 and growing at a CAGR of 13% for the last five years.

The size of the industry in volume terms is 3.1 million metric tons, with decorative coatings at 2.4 million metric tons and industrial coatings at 0.7 million metric tons.

The current per-capita consumption is 2.57 kg, which is far lower than that of global and Asian per-capita consumption of 20 kg and 5 kg, respectively. These numbers present excellent opportunities for growth in the country, with the industry expected to continue with double-digit growth from 2013 to 2017.

The paint industry is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14% to reach over $9 billion by 2017 with per-capita paint consumption expected to increase to over 4 kg.

In India, the decorative coatings market accounts for about 71% while industrial coatings account for the remaining 29%. Both the segments have been showing robust growth in the last few years. The demand in tier II and tier III cities is also growing and, in fact, is growing at a faster rate than the tier I cities.

There is a shift towards the use of organic pigments in premium paints with heavy metal pigments being phased out. Companies that adapt to this trend could see growth in the coatings market in India. Low household consumption of paints in India, compared to other developing regions, offers high growth potential of the market.

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Oil and gas sector 'needs 120,000 new employees'

Baby boomers have been accused of stealing their children’s future, attaining their wealth at the next generation’s expense and leaving young people entering the world of work facing bleak prospects.

But as the previous generation heads for retirement – and aided by changes in the tax regime and our ever greater thirst for energy – there is one industry heading for a jobs boom.

The oil and gas sector needs to recruit 120,000 new employees worldwide over the next decade to avoid a skills shortage, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers research, and companies in the sector are pushing hard to attract employees into the interesting and exciting – not to mention well remunerated – industry.

The sector is well placed to benefit from this employment boom: the 2014 Budget introduced tax breaks that industry experts say is driving record investment in North Sea exploration, estimated to be running at £13bn this year and predicted to rise higher in 2015.

The industry fits in well with the Government’s desire to rebalance the economy – the engineering and science expertise required in the sector is highly exportable – as well as hopes to boost STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in schools and universities.

There are many ways of breaking into the industry but a good starting point is one of the industry recruitment sites such as rigzone.com oroilcareers.com, offering the chance to find out about the industry and browse the thousands of jobs available.

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Oil & Gas Boom 2014: Jobs, Economic Growth And Security

Despite all the climate-based hysteria put out into the public domain in recent weeks attacking the oil and natural gas industry (even the Weather Channel got into that act recently), three key factors continue to give policymakers pause about acting in ways that would negatively impact the ongoing boom.  Those factors are:

·                Jobs;

·                Ancillary stimulative impacts on other industries; and

·                National Security.

The reality for the United States is that the oil and natural gas industry has greatly enhanced the picture around all three of these critical factors in recent years, nowhere more than in my home state of Texas.

Where jobs are concerned, Texas has consistently outperformed the national economy in terms of job creation and rate of unemployment in every month since the advent of the Great Recession and the discovery of the Eagle Ford Shale play, both of which took place in October of 2008.  Indeed, during the 24 month period from July 2009 through June of 2011, Texas created 49% of all new jobs created in the United States, and the vast majority of those jobs were either directly or indirectly the result of the state’s oil and natural gas boom, centered in plays like the Eagle Ford in South Texas, the Permian Basin of West Texas, and the Granite Wash play in the Texas Panhandle.

The energy boom will add fuel to the country’s economic revitalization, and the reduction of its dependence on energy imports will give it some measure of greater diplomatic freedom and influence… the huge boom in U.S. oil and gas production, combined with the country’s other enduring sources of military, economic, and cultural strength, should enhance U.S. global leadership in the years to come — but only if Washington protects the sources of this newfound strength at home and takes advantage of new opportunities to protect its enduring interests abroad.

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Booming Paint Industry in India

Bharat Book Bureau presents Booming Paint Industry in India. This report over the past few years, the Indian paint market has substantially grown and caught the attention of many international players.

The growth in the market is driven by emergence of the middle class in India, growing infrastructure, increase in the tendency to spend and growing young population inclined towards lavish lifestyle. On the back of such advocacy, it is anticipated that the sector will post a CAGR of around 16.2% during 2013-14 to 2015-16, according to our new research report, "Booming Paint Industry in India".

Our research is an outcome of extensive primary & secondary research spanning over 6 months and thorough analysis of industry trends. For the study, we have conducted F2F and telephonic interviews with industry experts such as members of Indian Paint Association and Paint manufacturers. In addition, we also interviewed more than 200 paint dealers and consumers all over India to embrace various aspects of the industry trends in the report.

The report segregates paint industry into two types - Decorative and Industrial paints. The decorative paint market has been further segmented into emulsions, enamel, distemper and cement paints. Similarly, the industrial paint market is also segmented into automotive coating, high performance coating, powder coating and coil coating. Detailed historic and future perspective has been provided with all data forecasted till 2015-16.

The various types of decorative paints have been further analyzed to understand the market size and future potential of various sub-segments such as plastic emulsions, textured emulsions, synthetic enamels, acrylic distempers, etc. The report also classifies decorative paint market by product class which includes premium paints, mid-tier paints and economy paints. Presently, the growth of the Indian paint industry is being witnessed from new demand pockets, especially in Tier-II and Tier-III cities, thus, signaling the growing acceptance of quality products among the masses. Our analysts have closely studied and provided market forecast till 2015-16 of all sub-segments and product class.

With the growth of paint industry, the market for raw material is also intensifying in India. A comprehensive analysis and forecasting till 2015-16 of raw material market is also included mainly focusing on major segments such as pigments, solvents, binders and additives.

We have also included the prominent industry players such as Asian Paints, Kansai Nerolac, Berger Paints, and many others to provide a balanced research outlook of the industry.

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