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Clean Bill of Health - Paint Booth Maintenance

Learn about maintenance methods to keep your paint booth in top shape

  1. How frequently you should change your paint booth’s exhaust filters
  2. What booth protection products can keep your booth clean, bright and running efficiently and smoothly
  3. When the ideal times are to activate summer and winter mode on your paint booth’s air make-up unit (AMU)
  4. What regular maintenance is included in preventative maintenance and service programs offered by your booth manufacturer or local distributor
  5. What daily cleaning should be performed in your paint booth

No Blast from the Past - Industrial Blast Booths

What you need to best position your industrial blasting operation for the future

  1. What surface preparation requirements exist for liquid painting and powder coating

  2. The most commonly used blasting methods and the benefits of each

  3. How to determine which shot media is best for your application

  4. The differences between blast booths, blast cabinets and blast pots, and which is most practical for your abrasive blasting operation

  5. How the proper dust collection equipment can promote cleaner paint jobs and protect your employees from breathing in unhealthy air 

Farming Out Profit

Primary considerations for agriculural manufacturers in a post-pandemic farmland

  1. Why powder coating has supplanted liquid paint as the preferred coating among manufacturers of specialty agricultural equipment components
  1. How to correctly size a powder coating booth for finishing agricultural parts
  1. Why efficient workflow centered around an oven is critical to prevent bottlenecks in a powder line
  1. How in-house powder coating leads to better quality control, faster turnaround times and significant cost savings from not outsourcing
  1. The advantages of having a local distributor to aid in your business’ growth planning

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

Why Outdoor Paint Booths May be the Best Solution for Finishing Construction Vehicles

  1. What potential logistical problems can arise when trying to squeeze an oversized paint booth indoors
  2. Factors influencing whether businesses manufacturing or refinishing construction vehicles should install a paint booth inside a new building or build a freestanding outdoor booth
  3. What features of outdoor paint booths are big perks when they are custom built to meet your business’ unique needs
  4. How a heated paint booth makes operations much more efficient
  5. Painting techniques to increase efficiency when using personnel lifts

picky over powder

Five essential consideration for maximizing your powder coating investment, you’ll learn:

  1. What type of powder coating booth is best for your batch operation, based on your business’ production expectations
  2. How a powder collection mechanism can help avoid wasted powder, make color changes easier and save on labor
  3. How the engineering of an oven can affect the quality of the cure of powder-coated parts, particularly with regard to temperature uniformity
  4. Why a dedicated powder storage area is needed for more efficient color changes, contamination control, and temperature and humidity control
  5. What technological upgrades can make your powder coating operation more efficient

What's Best for woodworkers

Investing in the right type of paint booth to maximize efficiency, in this free guide you’ll learn:

  1. The advantages and disadvantages of open face paint booths and enclosed paint booths for woodworking operations
  2. Why prepping woodworking products in a dust collection booth or sanding booth helps ensure effective contamination control
  3. What impact a paint booth’s airflow style has on the quality of the paint finish in woodworking paint booths
  4. Considerations for selecting the size of a woodworking paint booth
  5. Why enclosed paint booths are costlier than open face paint booths

Surface Preparation Basics

The Importance of Pretreatment for Quality Paint & Powder Finishes

Before metal products can be powder coated or sprayed with liquid paint, they have to be pretreated to remove contaminants. Pretreatment is essential to ensuring powder or paint adheres properly to products. It also lays the groundwork for consistent, quality finishes and prevents corrosion from forming on products. 

Proper preparation of your product surface goes a long way in determining the quality of your finish. Which method you choose for pretreatment should be largely based on the condition of your substrate, in combination with the performance requirements of your product related to adhesion. By understanding what is needed to pretreat your product, you can ensure optimal results.

Shop layouts handcrafted for woodworkers

In this free guide, woodworkers and other industrial manufacturers will learn how to boost production and increase finish quality by adding a low-temperature industrial oven to their shop layout. Available in numerous sizes and different configurations, low-temperature industrial ovens — also known as drying enclosures — provide a dedicated space for the curing of liquid coatings.

Low-temperature ovens allow manufacturers to keep their paint booths reserved for spraying, which helps prevent production bottlenecks. Additionally, by drying products in a controlled environment, instead of on the shop floor, you can reduce contamination in paint jobs. 

Ideal paint finishing environments for aerospace coatings

Whether you are painting full aircraft or components, the environment in which you apply aerospace and defense coatings is critical to the health and safety of your employees and the success of the final finish.

In this whitepaper, we identify the health and safety hazards of spraying performance coatings, review government regulations and codes, and explain the impact a properly engineered paint environment can have on your business.

Beyond the paint booth, we look at the complete paint process — including prep, storage and curing — and identify ways to optimize production and improve quality.

Elevating Your Wood Finishing Operation

For woodworkers aiming to take their operation to the next level, having the right equipment for each stage of the finishing process is key to maximize production, increase efficiency and improve finish quality. Proper finishing environments allow woodworkers to get the most out of each paint cycle, as reduced contaminants lead to less rework and cleaner paint jobs. With the right equipment, a woodworker’s production schedule can also be preplanned to create more efficiency, and jobs can be grouped together to increase throughput and minimize production bottlenecks.

Simply put, having the right finishing equipment — in a strategic layout — can boost the bottom line for a woodworking business. From prepping to painting to curing, woodworkers should invest in specialized equipment that allows them to achieve their desired finish quality and production level, in the most efficient manner.

Best Practices for Painting Oversized Vehicles in Heavy-Duty Paint Booths

This in-depth field guide will help you determine:

  • How to determine the size of the booth you need
  • What airflow style works best for your finishing process
  • Best practices for painting inside your paint booth
  • How to maintain cleanliness and make your investment last

Custom Paint booths

Recognizing their value to maximize your investment

  1. How customizing a paint booth allows your business to get the exact booth that you want to meet your specific requirements
  2. Why the engineering upfront and support after the sale are often differentiating factors among paint booth manufacturers
  3. The importance of investing in a manufacturer that has the capacity to custom design, engineer, manufacture and build equipment for your operation’s needs
  4. How your booth manufacturer and a local distributor can help ensure your equipment is code compliant
  5. Why dedicated project managers are essential on large custom jobs or jobs with multi-phased equipment installations

In this FREE guide from Global Finishing Solutions (GFS), discover everything you need to know about paint booth selection for finishing large equipment. 

  1. How laminar airflow in a paint booth can help produce high-quality finishes and reduce rework
  2. The negative effects of an unbalanced paint booth on filters and the exhaust fan
  3. How the three primary airflow styles for industrial large equipment paint booths impact contamination control
  4. Key questions to answer before investing in capital equipment
  5. What to consider when deciding whether to purchase a crossdraft booth or spring for a side downdraft or downdraft booth

Designing the Optimal Paint Finishing Operation

For metal fabricators in the market for new finishing equipment, there are many factors to consider when deciding what type of industrial paint booth is best for your business.

The spray booth you select should enable your metal fabrication business to fulfill its production requirements while also achieving the desired finish quality. You want to invest in industrial finishing systems that not only will meet your business’ needs in its current state but will be sufficient as your business grows and changes.

5 POWDER COATING TECHNOLOGIES TO SAVE TIME & INCREASE PROFIT

In this guide, we will walk you through what aspects of your powder coating system can receive a boost, including:

  1. How you can reclaim wasted powder by incorporating fluidized beds or drawers into your powder booth, saving your business a lot of money and reducing time spent removing wasted powder
  2. Why pulse control technology is beneficial for providing more consistent airflow and better visibility in your powder booth, in addition to keeping filters from excessively loading
  3. How a manual VFD makes controlling airflow in your powder booth easier, helping reduce wasted powder and protecting your employees

Choosing the Right Paint Booth

In addition to protecting the environment, complying with state, national and local codes and regulations, and keeping your employees and facility safe, enclosing the painting process in a booth results in better quality paint jobs that are free of contaminants.

Where should you start when buying a paint booth? This free workbook will help guide you through the process.

BEST PRACTICES FOR INDUSTRIAL PAINT STORAGE

This ultimate guide to storing paint in industrial applications will cover:

  • Storage conditions for each type of coating
  • Safety considerations for hazardous materials
  • How to increase paint productivity
  • How to achieve code compliance
  • Benefits of using a Hazardous Material Storage Building

The Ultimate Guide to BRINGING POWDER COATING IN-HOUSE

In this educational article, you will learn:

  • How to control quality and improve turnaround time
  • Which costs are cut in order to increase profitability
  • Benefits of positioning your powder coating operation for success
  • How having the right equipment can make all the difference

WHAT TO CONSIDER WHEN PURCHASING A PAINT BOOTH FOR BOATS & YACHTS

In this guide, we will walk you through what aspects of your business can impact your paint booth needs and affect your purchase:

  • Productivity needs
  • Coating & quality requirements
  • Boat size
  • Facility design
  • Service & support

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