Powder Coating & Media Blasting
What is Powder Coating?
Powder coating is an advanced method of applying a decorative and protective finish to a wide range of materials and products that are used by both industries and consumers.
The powder used for the process is a mixture of finely ground particles of pigment and resin, which is sprayed onto a surface to be coated. The charged powder particles adhere to the electrically grounded surfaces until heated and fused into a smooth coating in a curing oven. The result is a uniform, durable, high-quality, and attractive finish. Powder coating is the fastest-growing finishing technology in North America, representing over 10% of all industrial finishing applications.
What Are Its Advantages?
Durability
Powder coating gives consumers, businesses, and industry one of the most economical, longest-lasting, and most color-durable quality finishes available.
Powder coated surfaces are more resistant to chipping, scratching, fading, and wearing than other finishes. Color selection is virtually unlimited with high and low gloss, metallic, and clear finishes available. And colors stay bright and vibrant longer. Texture selections range from smooth surfaces to a wrinkled or matte finish, and rough surface imperfections.
Protects the Environment 
Powder coating is also highly protective of our environment. While liquid finishes contain solvents which have pollutants known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), powder coating containsno solvents and releases negligible amounts, if any, of VOCs into the atmosphere. In fact, one of the major elements in expanding the market for powder coating has been the implementation over the past 30 years of stringent air pollution control legislation. Thus, there is no longer a need for finishers to buy costly pollution control equipment. In addition, most powder coating overspray that does not adhere to the part can be retrieved and reused, virtually eliminating the waste commonly found in liquid finishing processes.
Colors
Hundreds of colors are available including epoxies, clears, chromes, fluorescents, metallics, primers, RAL’s, wrinkles, textures, veins, super durable, candies, high temperature & many more.See literature for color sample swatches.
Tiger Drylac Color Brochures
*These color swatches are printed for concept purposes only. They may not be 100% accurate when compared to actual color sample.
Abrasive Media Blasting
Abrasive media blasting and powder coating go hand in hand. The abrasive blasting process permits superior surface adhesion for the powder coating or any coating to adhere to. Proper surface preparation is critical for the success of every cleaning or coating process. Propelling abrasive particles at a surface is the fastest and most thorough means of cleaning, de-scaling, de-burring and removing oxides and other surface contaminants. This process works for awkward interiors, such as tanks, as well as large items not able to be chemically dipped.
Example media blasting abrasives include steel grit & aluminum oxide which are most common and economical for the metal fabrication industry.
Old Dutchman’s Wrought Iron blasting services government agencies, contractors, engineering firms, property management companies, public utilities and institutional clients. Our fully trained abrasive blasters are equipped to get the job done quickly, effectively and at a minimum downtime & cost for our customers.