Welcome to Dept. of - Areas of Research
The Particle Research Facility (PRF) has been involved in powder coatings research and formulation for more than seven years. The research at PRF has led to a number of novel powder coatings inventions and a patent on a novel ultrafine powder coatings technology. The ultrafine powder coatings result in thinner films, smoother surface and leads to considerable cost savings to the powder coating industry. Dr. Jesse Zhu is involved with a number of industrial collaborations for developing and transferring this technology. Furthermore, we are fully equipped to develop novel powder coating formulations for specific application requirements.
1. Nordson 902 Powder Coating Booth:
The model 902 powder spray booth provides clean, efficient and flexible operation in batch, short-run and custom-color manual powder coating operations. With Nordson cartridge-filter technology, the booth provides high material utilization and fast, color-change capability in a compact, modular system that is ideal for use in laboratory and manual reinforcement applications.
2. In-House Designed Powder Coating Spray Booths:
At PRF we have build two different sized powder coating spray booths for powder coatings application, formulation, and modeling research.
1. Large in-house designed spray booth: 2 m x 1.8 m x 1.6 m
2. Small in-house designed spray booth: 1 m x 0.8 m x 1.2 m
3. Portable Powder Paint Spray Systems:
At PRF there are three portable powder paint spray systems for each of the three spray booths. There are two Sure Coat Manual Spray Gun Systems from Nordson and one OptiFlex Manual Spray system from ITW Gema.
1. Sure Coat Manual Spray Gun Systems: The Nordson Sure Coat system provides operator-selectable, product-specific coating modes that deliver optimal coating performance for a variety of different powder coating applications. The system allows the user to choose the ideal application parameters for high levels of coating quality, efficiency and consistency.
Features and Benefits:
Constant-read gauges on the control display air-pressure and electrostatic parameters even when guns are not triggered on
Self-diagnostics feature reduces downtime, minimizes rejects and facilitates troubleshooting
Purge button on gun handle allows operator to spray air to minimize powder build-up and surging
2. OptiFlex Manual Spray System: The OptiFlex system combines flexibility and economy, and is ideal for medium to large production runs. The system stores your application settings for easy recall in any coating scenario.
Features and Benefits:
"On-gun" remote controls adjust coating mode and powder delivery without requiring operators to turn away from their work
OptiStarT Advanced Control Unit provides total control flexibility, giving operators a choice between 20 custom programs and 3 pre-programmed settings
Patented Digital Valve Control (DVC), automatically and precisely adjusts all air required for powder coating
Please contact us for more information and quotes on our Powder Coatings Division.
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Contact Info
Particle Research Facility
Yong Liu, Manager Thompson Eng. Bld., Rm. 217
Tel: (519) 661-4243
Fax: (519) 661-3498
Email: prf@powders.ca
