The Environmentally Responsible Choice
Demand Better
Striving to improve is part of our nature. Moving forward – and getting better – can be challenging, fun, frustrating, exciting and ultimately rewarding. Especially when it pays off. Most of us want to improve. We’re always looking for the better deal, the better performance, the better color, the better process – better is best!
So, surely this extends to coatings for the cabinets and furniture we put so much time and effort into creating?
No pain, no stain (literally)
Stain testing the coating on your kitchen cabinet
As someone who has had a blender “incident” with an acai and berry smoothie, checking the stain resistance of any coating protecting my kitchen cabinets is a top priority. Powder coating, specifically powder coating with excellent technical performance and gorgeous aesthetics, like IFS PureClad FFT powder for wood and MDF, is new to the market. So what about that all important stain resistance. Does it stand up to the scientific testing (and more importantly, my culinary ineptitude)?
Puroplaz PE20 Texture Launched
IFS Coatings today launched IFS Puroplaz® PE20 Texture, a tough thermoplastic polyethylene based powder that can be can be both sprayed and dip applied and delivers incredible adhesion, flexibility and industry leading scratch and impact protection in a gorgeous textured finish.
IFS Coatings announce carbon offset program
As of January 2021, IFS Coatings inc., the USA’s largest privately owned manufacturer of sustainable powder coatings, will purchase monthly carbon offsets to further its work towards becoming more sustainable.
New year, New colors, New effects
IFS sister brand, Polychem Powder launches 2021-22 color trend palettes
Polychem Coatings, an IFS Coatings brand, today launched its 2021-22 powder coating color trend palettes.
Sustainability and Style - The Oregon Conservation Center, Portland Oregon
Sustainability is an incredibly important element of any architect’s approach to design these days. As well as protecting our planet and the resources we rely on, it is also part of the design professional’s commitment to protect the health, safety and welfare of our communities.
Sustainability is clearly central to the 16,000 sf Oregon Conservation Center, in Portland Oregon, that is home to office, conference/event space and a newly built roof garden terrace.
Powder coatings are branching out...introducing IFS PureClad for non-metal substrates like wood!
IFS PureClad is an industry changing new line of powder coatings to provide a stronger, safer, better finishing solution for non-metal substrates.
Imagine being able to apply a smooth, flexible, tough powder coating to heat sensitive products like wood or MDF...You want the finish, the protection and environmental benefits, but substrates like MDF and wood are not going to do well in the oven, right? Traditionally, yes, but IFS PureClad changes that. No longer the stuff of dreams, IFS PureClad will deliver all the benefits of powder coating - including a gorgeous finish, a world class sustainability footprint, and technical excellence - to non-metal substrates.
The product of countless hours of R&D investment and collaboration with allied suppliers dedicated to advancing powder coating beyond metal, PureClad incorporates breakthrough solutions which together set the stage for a new revolution in finishing.
The opportunities are endless, and IFS PureClad powder coatings can be used on a huge array of end use applications, which include, but are not limited to, cabinetry, furniture, residential cladding, moldings, and wood/fiberglass doors.
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The Environmentally Responsible Choice
Our commitment to deliver the environmentally responsible choice is clear - it's part of our mission and part of what we do every day. IFS PureClad is an environmental friendly coating solution for heat sensitive substrates that not only delivers technical excellence but contains no harmful VOC emissions, boasts an impressive carbon footprint, can be reclaimed and reused or recycled and, as it cures at lower temperatures, it reduces energy consumption. No hazardous waste is created in either manufacture or application and IFS PureClad powders will also meet California Proposition 65 requirements.
Color Choice
Color is important to any product, from creating a mood to defining a brand. So color is important to us. Cabinet white is the industry standard. We get it and we've got it! But IFS PureClad is also available in a range of colors including various RALs, neutrals and brighter shades.
What's more, PureClad powders can be formulated to achieve a variety of textures/effects that other finishing options simply cannot achieve, providing designers and consumers with a myriad of options, and manufactures with the ability to differentiate with unique aesthetics.
It's new and it's exciting! We're working hard to build a network of coaters that can deliver this incredible finish, that overcomes the issues traditionally associated with coating non-metal substrates, so that you can build it into your designs in the very near future! Watch this space!
Designing Spaces for the New Normal. Can Powder Coatings Help?
There has been a lot of discussion about designing spaces for our new environment, and the new world we all find ourselves living in recently. Rebecca Charbauski writes about the design issues in “Designing Safe, Compelling Shared Spaces To Rekindle Our Love For The Office”
Tattooing Architecture. Really?
It’s not often that tattoos and architecture are talked about in the same sentence. But this is something special.
IFS & Win-Vent Team Up to Change the Yonker’s Skyline
Nestled in the Lower Hudson Valley, the Larkin Plaza– a residential waterfront property, over 585,000 square feet and designed by SLCE Architects – is bringing the Yonkers waterfront alive.
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