Expansion of coating facilities and product samples on show at Southern Manufacturing 2004

Applied Coating Technologies (ACT) has committed to an expansion programme of its coating facilities during 2004. Specialists in the application of coatings onto plastics, product samples will be on show at Southern Manufacturing 18-19 February, 2004.

The expansion programme for 2004 includes:

The procurement of a Staubli 6-axis robot, purposely designed to recognise over 200 different parts, thus allowing even small-medium volume production runs to be automated. Robotic spraying offers many advantages over manual production including increased throughput, greater consistency and repeatability and more control over paint usage. The robot will be housed in a fully enclosed water-back spray room to allow both conductive paints for EMI shielding and decorative paints for cosmetic finishing to be sprayed.

The installation of a second custom-designed clean-room spraying facility for the application of cosmetic finishes. This plant has been specifically designed to provide high-quality surface finishes. With fully integrated de-ionisation and product curing facilities, typical paint defects such as air-borne ‘inclusions’ have essentially been eliminated from the process. Therefore a complete range of matt to gloss finishes can be achieved.

A further three dry-back spray booths have been installed to increase the capacity of ACT’s EMI Shielding business. ACT offers nickel, copper, and silver loaded paints for EMI Shielding and is now the UK’s largest solutions provider for EMI Shielding.

The development of decorative finishing at ACT was in response to customer requirements for a one-stop shop finishing service. Future developments planned, involve adding secondary finishing processes to our product range, such as pad printing. Samples of contemporary finishes currently available at ACT such as satin chrome / stainless steel / soft feel effects will be on show at Southern Manufacturing.

The core business of ACT is EMI shielding coatings and examples of components coated with conductive paints and electroplating techniques will also be on show.

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Applied Coating Technologies Ltd
Tipton Road, Tividale, Oldbury B69 3HY. United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)121 557 5324 Fax: +44 (0)121 557 7064