October, 2026
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Pinholes vs. Craters in Powder Coating: A Field Guide to Telling Them Apart
You pull a rack out of the oven, and there they are again—tiny holes scattered across the surface. The instinct is to blame the powder. Sometimes that’s right. More often, the powder is doing exactly what it was formulated to do, and the problem started somewhere upstream: in the substrate, in the pretreatment, or in a contaminant you can’t see. Here’s the part that trips up a lot of shops: the holes you’re looking at may not all be theRead More …
Better In, Better Out: Inside Our Latest Raw Material Supplier Conference
If you’ve been in the coatings industry long enough, you know the golden rule: you can’t make a great powder coating out of mediocre raw materials. We’ve all seen it happen. A slight inconsistency in resin, a minor deviation in pigment, or a bad batch of fillers can ruin the final product—causing issues with impact resistance, color consistency, and overall durability. For our customers, that means costly rework and downtime. That’s why we recently gathered our core raw material suppliersRead More …
Why the Same Powder Coating Performs Differently on Two Aluminum Projects
If you’ve spent any time specifying or applying powder coatings for architectural aluminum, you’ve probably seen this: the same powder, the same color, the same nominal film thickness—yet one facade holds its gloss through a decade of sun and rain while another starts chalking and fading within a few years. The powder supplier blames the applicator. The applicator blames the pretreatment line. The fabricator blames the aluminum. Everyone has a theory, nobody has a clear answer. The uncomfortable truth isRead More …
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