The process starts at State of the Art Powder Coating by hanging your part on one of our custom designed oven racks. Then your part is hand wiped to remove any major debris or oil deposits, next your part is pressure washed with a heated iron phosphate solution. This step rids your product of any remaining oils and debris left from the manual wipe step as well as prepares your product to accept the powder coat properly. Following the iron phosphate wash your part will receive a cool rinse of RO (Reverse Osmosis) water to ensure your part is clean and free of excess iron phosphate, dirt, oil, and debris.  A chrome free conversion coating for architectural aluminum can be applied as a final step to enhance powder adhesion. Once you part has been pre-treated it is moved to one of our dry-off ovens to prevent flash rusting on your part. After cool down from the dry off oven the next step for your part is the electrostatic application of the powder in one of our spray booths. The powder is charged by an electrode which creates an ion cloud. The powder particles pass through this cloud and pick up a negative charge. Since your part is ground to our oven rack there is an electrostatic attraction of the powder particles to your part. Your part will now be moved into one of our curing ovens where the powder melts, cross links, and bonds to the surface of your part. Once your part exits the oven and cools it is moved to our quality/packaging area where it will be inspected and wrapped for pick up/delivery or shipment which completes the process. 
 

Our custom designed oven racks are capable of handling products up to 30 feet in length, 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide with a weight up to 2500 lbs. State of the Art Powder Coating stocks a large variety of hanging fixtures in order to maximize our oven rack density, which makes production more cost effective and ultimately leads to better turn around times and customer savings.