Are Custom Coating and Converting Services Critical to Product Quality?
Coating and converting services are essential for a wide variety of industries such as electronic, marine, graphics, packaging, textile and engineering. Ensuring the reliability of these is critical to product quality and on-time delivery.
The companies providing these services offer solutions customized to the projects as required and manage the development of the product from lab to production. These companies also provide end-to-end coating capabilities to their clients and strive to be flexible and responsive to the changing corporate needs. They offer converting engineering services and project management to optimize production, improve quality and reduce operating costs. They closely work with the clients in order to design their systems so as to meet the application and operation requirements.
Custom Coating:
Creative custom coating solutions coupled with state of the art finish technology provide quality results required by businesses. This is the one that precisely fits the specific requirements of the customer for surface protection, impact resistance, lubricity, temperature tolerance, corrosion resistance and more. An engineered custom finish is formulated by experienced engineers to deliver precisely the mix of performance attributes the end user demands.
Following are some of the important services:
• Contract Coating is a service that allows the solution providers to use their broad experience in coating technology on a contract basis. They employ the full scope of this technology to be sure that they successfully accomplish various projects to the desired quality standards.
• Laminating: The process of applying a film of plastic on the surface of any item is known as laminating. When plastic coating is added to any item it becomes tear-proof and waterproof, since the laminating film encapsulates the item completely by being bonded to both its sides. There are different lamination processes, depending on the type of materials to be laminated. The materials used in laminates can be the same or different, depending on the processes and the object to be laminated.
• Die Cutting: Die cutting is a manufacturing process used to generate a large number of the same shape from a material such as wood, plastic, metal, or fabric. The process is widely used on an assortment of materials all over the world, and many manufactured products contain several die cut components.
• Slitting: This is used to cut a wide coil of metal into a number of narrower coils as the main coil is moved through the slitter. During the slitting process, the metal coil passes lengthwise through the slitter’s circular blades. Slitting can be used equally well for both sheet or coil rolls.
• Contract Converting: Contract converting is a service with a variety of operations. It includes razor, score, hot knife,shear slitting and duplex rewinding with differential capability. Whether a customer needs one roll or 1000 rolls, any magnitude of work can be successfully handled to provide the highest quality work in a timely manner.
By Robert J. Hartl