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Improving your rebar coating application – music to our ears
Efficiency, performance, experience – music to the ears of any coater applying powder to rebar. Now there’s a reason why rebar coating applicators and fabricators are feeling more upbeat about achieving improvements in efficiency and coating performance, and IFS Pureflex is instrumental in that.
In fact, Pureflex is hitting the high notes and delivering a whole host of application advantages that are propelling it up the charts to the number one rebar coating position. Check out the top 5 reasons that Pureflex is in tune with the rebar market and what coaters are looking for.
1. Faster gel = increased line speed
It’s pretty simple, but faster gel times allow applicators to increase lines speeds and maximize production. The latest Pureflex powder coating significantly outperforms competing technologies and delivers incredibly quick gel times enabling applicators to increase their line speeds to quicker than ever before.
2. Flexible coating footprint
If you’re achieving consistent faster gel times and a quick cure you also have the opportunity for a shorter coating line footprint. Some rebar coatings lines can be 180ft long and the speed of the line depends on the line length and distance between various elements of the process e.g. the distance between the coating area and the first support of the bar. As you know, Pureflex powder gels and cures so quickly that coaters have the opportunity to shorten or be more creative in how they maximize their manufacturing footprint. Applicators now have the flexibility to design or redesign their coating footprint to work for them.
3. Tight tolerance and consistent excellence
Process control and an extremely experienced production and engineering team, mean Pureflex is manufactured to have an optimal particle size distribution. This tight manufacturing tolerance leads to extremely high quality consistent powder, with very little cobwebbing and consistent film thickness control. As we all know, a more consistent film thickness not only means a better looking, better performing product, but it also means savings and reduced waste.
4. Flexibility for tighter diameter bends
When designing rebar for bridges or columns the ultimate design is a candy cane shaped piece of rebar. The tighter the “bend” in the cane the better, as this allows for more steel in a column which in turn delivers more support. To get a really tight bend, the powder coating has to have incredible flexibility as the parts are coated and then bent. Pureflex has been created with world class flexibility which allows for a very aggressive, tight bend to the bar and optimal performance for the construction team.
5. Excellent color stability
This sounds simple, but it’s extremely important when coating large diameter bar. When applying powder to 2 – 2.5” diameter bars they have to be heated so quickly that it can cause discoloration to the coating. The coating will change from a lovely shiny green to a streaked, ugly brown and then back to green again on one part. The R&D team behind Pureflex have come up with a stable pigment package that withstands the heating change and does not discolor, delivering a beautiful, consistent coating to each and every piece.
That’s quite the top 5, and when you combine it with flexible quantities, a variety of packaging options to accommodate various coating operations throughout the industry, and a technical team with decades of combined powder experience to support you every step of the way, it’s easy to see why Pureflex is rocking and rolling all the way the top.