What is Custom Coating?
Custom coating services apply in many industries, but are specifically advantageous in regards to safety items. The incorporation of photoluminescent properties to building code compliance items such as signs or marking tapes are a common example. Manufacturers of traction or photoluminescent oriented coverings offer benefits in this area and are also an advantageous option to companies wanting to incorporate these qualities to their own products. Custom conversion is a process that can be performed on individual materials or an entire product. Manufacturers offer buyers the ability to purchase entire sheets of covering for cutting to specific dimensions.
Photoluminescent films supply further visibility in low light situations and are combinable with traction layers to deliver resistance to any flexible substrate.
How is Custom Coating Performed?
Custom coating is a process used to place a covering on a substrate or alternative object to improve certain properties. These materials can be applied to improve one or many of the below attributes:
- Appearance
- Wear Resistance
- Visibility
- Adhesion
- Scratch Resistance
- Wetability
The process involves using a thin material in the form of a gas, solid, or liquid to form film on a substrate. Custom coating services are used in the safety industry to add photoluminescent or resistance properties to an incorporated product material or an complete piece of merchandise. Â Available coating methods for this process include:
- Conversion Coating
- Anodizing
- Phosphate Coating
- Plating
- Plasma or Thermal Spraying
- Saturation
- Painting
- Powder
Application needs play a significant role in how a coating is added to a substrate with adhesion, spraying, and saturation being common. A company uncertain of the most appropriate application method can discuss available options with a provider to learn more about what will work best.
What Purposes Does Custom Coating Fulfill?
Coverings are added to a variety of flexible substrates and manufacturers offer a diverse array of choices in this area of service. Resistance or self-luminous characteristics enhance the quality of equipment, safety items, and general consumer products. In the case of construction equipment, these materials are added to provide visibility during night time operations in addition to general traction for safe entry/exit. Resistant films are applicable on equipment to provide better gripping ability for improved safety. Coverings may be added to signs and tapes used in commercial, manufacturing, or public use facilities to support egress compliance. Manufacturers creating their own safety products have the option to acquire sheets for incorporating these qualities within their own facilities. Here are a few examples of product applications:
- Ladders
- Deck Materials
- Boats
- Pool Products
- Kitchen Supplies
- Egress Components
- Bath Mats
- Toys
There is no limit as to what these films can be used for and the characteristics they supply offer tremendous benefits to companies in need of safety enhancing items or desiring to increase the value of their own products. Custom coating services are an affordable method for adding explicit characteristics to a flexible substrate product or materials used to finish consumer merchandise.
Suppliers provide laminating, cutting, and finishing services to business or individual customers. Companies in need of custom solutions have this service available to make the addition of photoluminescent or resistant properties affordable and easy.
