Moving from Water-Based Paint to Powder
Heiko Schlindwein
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For 20 years, a manufacturer of automated storage and material flow systems coated its products using recyclable water-based paint. Then, the company decided to move to powder coating on the basis of the results of a comparative study. The new machine with separate single-colour and multiple-colour systems has reduced material consumption by 50 percent.