OEM’s

Manufacturers of original and heavy engineering equipment struggle with the high pace production because of paint curing times. They can usually produce parts faster than they can paint and dry them due to bottle-neck’s caused by traditional paint curing times.

Traditional coatings require atmospheric conditions to be perfect and controlled, and usually require paint booths and electrical dryers to accelerate the paint cure. Even then parts are sometimes left to cure for a week if the assembly process involves bolts and screws which would otherwise shear the paint. With MCU-Coatings even a three-coat paint system on a SA 3 prepared surfaces can be applied within 2 hours!

One of our OEM clients had issues with his old coatings because they were shearing underneath the bolts and washers 7 days after the coatings had been applied because they still had not dried hard. He changed to MCU-Coatings because he was able to assemble parts 2 days after they had been coated.

Our standard paint system for hard wearing equipment: 100µm DFT MCU-Zinc primer, 125µm DFT MCU-Miomastic followed by 75µm DFT Topcoat – total DFT of 300µm:

Other relevant features:

• Single-component system that can be brushed, rolled or sprayed
• Unlimited open times in a closed pot
• It is not weather restricted:
  • can be applied between 6% – 99% relative humidity
  • can be applied at -15°C and even onto 70°C steel surfaces
  • no dew point restrictions; and
  • are not troubled by rain events 15 minutes after application
• Our primers are surface tolerant
• Can be over-coated in 45 minutes
• Parts can be assembled within 2 days of coating
• Superior impact resistance so will not chip and crack
• They do not embrittle over time, have excellent UV resistance and retain their colour
• Excellent long-life flexibility to handle any steel flexing, expansion and contraction

MCU-Coatings guarantees faster application times and greater efficiencies which translate into profits!