Painting & Powder Coating
Painting or powder coating your parts can bring them to life, convey your product’s signature look, or connote important functions, such as insignia red, to highlight emergency control panels and boxes. Not only do these processes provide the look that you want, they provide durable protection from rust and other forms of oxidation to preserve your parts, even beyond the benefits provided by our phoscoat line for steel and chromate conversion processes, usually called for by most aluminum parts.
Service Metal’s flexible batch system for preparation, masking and specified priming, along with state-of-the-industry application processes of all widely available and custom, hard-to-locate coatings alike, is set to produce the look that you demand for your metal work, consistently, across decades of production runs ranging from single parts to tens of thousands in quantities.
After application, we cure parts in accordance with manufacturers’ specs in our industrial ovens that accommodate rapid curing of large roll-in racks of your metal parts. Our coatings department handles tremendous throughput, but has flexibility to scale down for your smaller production and prototyping runs as well.
Fully Fluent in Language of Paint Specs
Service Metal has accumulated over 40 years of valuable know-how and understanding of all coating manufacturers’ specs, along with federal, military and other standards to apply your specified paint or powder flawlessly every time. Not infrequently, we have suggested customers consider stock coatings that comply fully with their custom-mixed spec as an opportunity to lower their costs. Whichever route they choose, we apply your specified and approved coatings correctly to your satisfaction every time, and with coatings sourced only from authorized vendors. This ensures performance of your chosen coating for the life of your product in the field.
Some frequently referenced coating standards include:
- Military specs such as MIL-PRF-24712B, MIL-DTL-53072, PRF-32348, etc.
- Federal standards AMS-STD-595/ FED-STD-595
- RAL numbers
- Coating spec sheets for industrial & defense titans like GE, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and many more
Sheet Metal Powder Coating
Powder coating produces color-finishing that could also be accomplished by wet paint on products like sheet metal. This finishing technique applies as a dry resin powder using spray tools. In addition to specialized application equipment, powder coating also requires a heated surface to produce the desired coating effects. Furthermore, powder coating is often characterized by a thicker and somewhat more durable finish than wet paint alternatives.