Stripping Paint from Masking Proves Profitable for Automotive Coater
Stripping Paint from Masking Proves Profitable for Automotive Coater
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而不是把用过的口罩扔进垃圾桶, 南卡罗来纳州的罗伊金属加工公司正在重新利用其瓶盖, plugs and masks as many as seven times in a stripping process designed in collaboration with Hubbard-Hall’s Aquastrip ACB, a mildly acidic liquid concentrate that is used to remove polymeric coatings.
Even though Roy 金属表面处理 (RMF) finishes millions of parts each year at its three facilities in South Carolina, it’s attention to small details that has made it one of the top finishing operations in North America, 当然也是最大的一个.
RMF employs over 200 associates and specializes in corrosion-protection surface technologies for the automotive, 重型卡车, 一般工业和航空航天终端市场. 成立于1961年, 该公司是几家大公司的主要供应商, 比如沃尔沃卡车, 约翰迪尔和卡特彼勒, 以及许多其他的国内, 亚洲和德国原始设备制造商.
John Pazdan, RM的总经理
“A lot of our success is attributable to paying special attention to details,约翰·帕兹丹说, RMF的总经理, 该公司于2018年被Aalberts Industries N.V., a public Dutch technology company that was founded in 1975 and based in 50 countries worldwide.
RMF专业从事机架和桶式镀锌, 锌合金涂层, 电泳漆和粉末涂料, 同时还提供重锌磷化, 钝化, 为客户打拳击. For one of its particular applications — powder coating brake calipers and brake fluid systems— it required an extensive amount of masking downholes and other areas that were not only labor- intensive, but also used a significant amount of caps and plugs in the masking process.
降低成本，提高性能
亚当·布拉姆菲尔德, RMF的业务和产品开发总监, says the company looked at various ways to reduce some of its costs by reusing the masking after they were used in the powder coated process.
“当你一年完成近600万个这样的零件时, it certainly becomes an appreciable expense when using that much masking,布拉姆菲尔德说. “As we are always looking at ways to improve our operations and become even more efficient, that was an area that we really wanted to find a solution to lower some of those costs.”
RMF tried a few unconventional tactics to get the powder coating off the masks; one included tumbling the masking in a dryer with a few dozen used golf balls to try to rub the coatings off the plastic components. They also looked at chemical treatments to clean the masking components, 但似乎没有一家能达到RMF的标准.
The other issues that RMF was facing were the lead time that it was taking to order masking products: both Pazdan and Brumfield say that, because almost all the components they were buying from distributors were made overseas, it often required a three-month advance purchase to get supplies in.
“We did our homework on the issue about reusing the masking components,” Pazdan says. “真正合适的选择并不多, but we knew that somehow we wanted to control the matter ourselves. 我们可以送他们去脱光衣服, but we were still at someone’s mercy in a very key part of our processing system.”
“当你一年完成近600万个这样的零件时, it certainly becomes an appreciable expense when using that much masking.”
室内脱漆系统
而不是, RMF set up its in-house stripping system to clean the caps and plugs from the powder coating. They worked with chemical supplier Hubbard-Hall to use a relatively newer product, Aquastrip ACB, a mildly acidic liquid concentrate that is used to remove polymeric coatings, including CARC and TGIC epoxy-hybrid powder coat from ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
RMF has a three-shift operation in use now that focuses entirely on stripping and cleaning the masking components to have them ready for the next batch of brake calipers or brackets that will need powder coated.
布拉姆菲尔德说:“这是发条使然。. “这可能会相当昂贵, but for us it is an advantage to have this type of operation in our own facility where we can control the process and the outcome.”
RMF is one of the few facilities in North America that automotive tiers are willing to utilize extensively because the facility and its associates are used to working with highly-engineered parts that have numerous machined surfaces that cannot be coated due to the fit, form, 以及最终组件的功能.
That expertise was one of the reasons that Aalberts Industries targeted them for acquisition several years ago: RMF had a deciding edge factor when it came to plating and coating automotive components, and certainly had the size and bandwidth to work with some of the largest OEMs in North America.
以阿尔伯茨工业伙伴关系为基础
Pazdan says working with the Aalberts Industries’ leadership has been beneficial on both ends, and that they continue to look for ways to further that partnership.
“Aalberts Industries was really the right brand that we wanted to be associated with,” he says. 部分原因是RMF团队的聪明才智, which has been willing to add powder coating and electrocoat operations to its offering over the last decades as it ramps up to serve high-profile clients such as those in automotive.
当然, having its own in-house stripping and cleaning process for masking products shows what a commitment RMF has to refine its operations and having better control, 拉里·恩斯利说, 澳门威尼斯人网上赌场的技术服务经理, who worked with RMF to get their system operating efficiently.
“Re-using those masking components can sometimes increase productivity by as much as 50%,恩斯利说. 用Aquastrip ACB剥离后, plugs and masking materials can be re-used as many as 6-7 times, which can save a company up to 85% on the annual expense on these materials.”
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下载个案研究PDF
而不是把用过的口罩扔进垃圾桶, 南卡罗来纳州的罗伊金属加工公司正在重新利用其瓶盖, plugs and masks as many as seven times in a stripping process designed in collaboration with Hubbard-Hall’s Aquastrip ACB, a mildly acidic liquid concentrate that is used to remove polymeric coatings.
Even though Roy 金属表面处理 (RMF) finishes millions of parts each year at its three facilities in South Carolina, it’s attention to small details that has made it one of the top finishing operations in North America, 当然也是最大的一个.
RMF employs over 200 associates and specializes in corrosion-protection surface technologies for the automotive, 重型卡车, 一般工业和航空航天终端市场. 成立于1961年, 该公司是几家大公司的主要供应商, 比如沃尔沃卡车, 约翰迪尔和卡特彼勒, 以及许多其他的国内, 亚洲和德国原始设备制造商.
John Pazdan, RM的总经理
“A lot of our success is attributable to paying special attention to details,约翰·帕兹丹说, RMF的总经理, 该公司于2018年被Aalberts Industries N.V., a public Dutch technology company that was founded in 1975 and based in 50 countries worldwide.
RMF专业从事机架和桶式镀锌, 锌合金涂层, 电泳漆和粉末涂料, 同时还提供重锌磷化, 钝化, 为客户打拳击. For one of its particular applications — powder coating brake calipers and brake fluid systems— it required an extensive amount of masking downholes and other areas that were not only labor- intensive, but also used a significant amount of caps and plugs in the masking process.
降低成本，提高性能
亚当·布拉姆菲尔德, RMF的业务和产品开发总监, says the company looked at various ways to reduce some of its costs by reusing the masking after they were used in the powder coated process.
“当你一年完成近600万个这样的零件时, it certainly becomes an appreciable expense when using that much masking,布拉姆菲尔德说. “As we are always looking at ways to improve our operations and become even more efficient, that was an area that we really wanted to find a solution to lower some of those costs.”
RMF tried a few unconventional tactics to get the powder coating off the masks; one included tumbling the masking in a dryer with a few dozen used golf balls to try to rub the coatings off the plastic components. They also looked at chemical treatments to clean the masking components, 但似乎没有一家能达到RMF的标准.
The other issues that RMF was facing were the lead time that it was taking to order masking products: both Pazdan and Brumfield say that, because almost all the components they were buying from distributors were made overseas, it often required a three-month advance purchase to get supplies in.
“We did our homework on the issue about reusing the masking components,” Pazdan says. “真正合适的选择并不多, but we knew that somehow we wanted to control the matter ourselves. 我们可以送他们去脱光衣服, but we were still at someone’s mercy in a very key part of our processing system.”
“当你一年完成近600万个这样的零件时, it certainly becomes an appreciable expense when using that much masking.”
室内脱漆系统
而不是, RMF set up its in-house stripping system to clean the caps and plugs from the powder coating. They worked with chemical supplier Hubbard-Hall to use a relatively newer product, Aquastrip ACB, a mildly acidic liquid concentrate that is used to remove polymeric coatings, including CARC and TGIC epoxy-hybrid powder coat from ferrous and non-ferrous metals.
RMF has a three-shift operation in use now that focuses entirely on stripping and cleaning the masking components to have them ready for the next batch of brake calipers or brackets that will need powder coated.
布拉姆菲尔德说:“这是发条使然。. “这可能会相当昂贵, but for us it is an advantage to have this type of operation in our own facility where we can control the process and the outcome.”
RMF is one of the few facilities in North America that automotive tiers are willing to utilize extensively because the facility and its associates are used to working with highly-engineered parts that have numerous machined surfaces that cannot be coated due to the fit, form, 以及最终组件的功能.
That expertise was one of the reasons that Aalberts Industries targeted them for acquisition several years ago: RMF had a deciding edge factor when it came to plating and coating automotive components, and certainly had the size and bandwidth to work with some of the largest OEMs in North America.
以阿尔伯茨工业伙伴关系为基础
Pazdan says working with the Aalberts Industries’ leadership has been beneficial on both ends, and that they continue to look for ways to further that partnership.
“Aalberts Industries was really the right brand that we wanted to be associated with,” he says. 部分原因是RMF团队的聪明才智, which has been willing to add powder coating and electrocoat operations to its offering over the last decades as it ramps up to serve high-profile clients such as those in automotive.
当然, having its own in-house stripping and cleaning process for masking products shows what a commitment RMF has to refine its operations and having better control, 拉里·恩斯利说, 澳门威尼斯人网上赌场的技术服务经理, who worked with RMF to get their system operating efficiently.
“Re-using those masking components can sometimes increase productivity by as much as 50%,恩斯利说. 用Aquastrip ACB剥离后, plugs and masking materials can be re-used as many as 6-7 times, which can save a company up to 85% on the annual expense on these materials.”
2020年9月9日
