
Learn how powder coating, a dry electrostatically applied coating, is cured by heat or ultraviolet light, and discover pretreatment steps, powder composition, application methods, and curing options.
Discover the complete powder coating process—from pretreatment and electrostatic spray deposition to curing—highlighting quality control and the formation of durable cross-linked coatings.
Learn to prepare metal substrates for powder coating through dip or spray pre-treatments that clean, roughen, and convert surfaces with phosphates or chromates to enhance adhesion and corrosion resistance.
Explore the powder feeding system for electrostatic deposition painting, detailing fluidization, hopper components, venturi pump, and how air pressure enables consistent powder flow from hopper to gun to object.
Balance fluidizing, powder supply, and atomizing air to improve transfer efficiency and coating quality. Maintain clean, dry compressed air and inspect hoses and worn parts to prevent delivery inconsistencies.
Explore how resin, curing agents, fillers, pigments, and additives influence powder coating performance, including glass transition, melt viscosity, flow, and corrosion resistance.
Learn how to suspend components on powder coating lines using fixed-pitch and power-and-free conveyors, protect hanger points with deflectors, and ensure earth grounding for even coating.
Assess dry film thickness in powder coating using DFT meters and mechanical comb, calibrate per SSPC PA2, and apply spot and gauge readings with a ±20 percent tolerance.
Verify color appearance with color meters and RAL codes, measure gloss at 60 degrees, assess hiding power, and evaluate impact, bend, pencil hardness, and adhesion.
Learn how daily, weekly, and monthly housekeeping and equipment monitoring improve powder coating quality and control costs by following practical maintenance checklists, cleaning protocols, and voltage and grounding checks.
Explore how curing of powder coatings depends on the curing window, shaping melting, flowing, and cross-linked solids, and compare convection, infrared, induction, and UV ovens.
Explore infrared ovens for powder coating, comparing pure IR, IR-convection, and UV curing, and learn how preheating, zone control, and reflectors influence cure speed and quality.
Measure oven temperature profiles with probes and a tracker to ensure proper curing, noting how thickness and material affect heat up and conveyor settings.
Assess curing degree and prevent brittle powder films using crosscut adhesion tests and impact checks. Reduce curing time and energy use with infrared boosters and substrate preheating for galvanized metals.
This Course has training sessions on Powder Coating, Spray type and Dip type Pre treatment, Corona and Tribo powder coating guns, Convection- Infrared- Induction- Ultraviolet ovens, Standard power-pulled type and Power & free type conveyors, component hanging principals, Powder and chemical contents, health and safety precautions, impact testing, cross cut adhesion testing, bend test, scratch and pencil hardness test, salt spray test, humidity test, corrosion classes as per NS and ISO standards, technical principals and theories involved in powder coating, pre treatment and its guns, faraday cage effect, powder curing process, general curing defects and analysis, chromate, non chromate, iron phosphate and zinc phosphate processes in addition chemical cleaning and de rusting, mechanical cleaning surface preparation methods like steel blasting, general pre treatment process defects and analysis, checklist of parameters effecting the pre treatment process, water saving, Proper earthing, its values and testing, methods to save conveyor from powder spray, Conveyor lubrication methods, gun voltage testing, powder recovery system, post filtration of air, powder application, gun setting parameters for proper powder flow, temperature recording of ovens and study on TTR reports, best practices for powder booth cleaning, maintenance check points on daily, weekly, monthly basis, general defects analysis, quality control and it's importance in powder coating and much much more. SSPC2 standard for dry film thickness measurement is very well explained in the course, gauge readings and spot readings are defined in easy to understand method, number of readings per square meter and minimum area for measurement is defined with formulas.