Aluminum: A Guide to Pretreatment and Roll Coating

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Aluminum is a material widely used in the production of automobiles, aircraft, panels, construction and packaging components. In addition, aluminum can be coated with different substances or paints to increase its durability and attractiveness and to make it more durable.

There is a wide range of aluminum coatings that were created according to the needs of customers and market trends. In fact, by surface coating we are not only referring to the industrial process of applying a coating on ACP. There are two main reasons for selecting a specific type of coating: to protect the material being coated and to improve its aesthetic and functional properties. For this reason, the type of coating varies depending on the end goal and the application area.

 

Aluminum: A Guide to Pretreatment and Roll Coating

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Aluminum coil pretreatment

The surface of the coil is cleaned of oil and impurities by means of chemical cleaning agents and chemical conversion solvents, so that a chemical conversion film is formed on the surface of the aluminum coil, effectively ensuring the adhesion quality of the coating.

According to the film processing process can be, divided into spraying, dipping and rinsing-free three types.

 

Spray pretreatment is the pharmaceutical agent through the pressure of the nozzle spray to the surface of the aluminum coil, in addition to the chemical action of the liquid and aluminum surface, there are mechanical particles, high efficiency, relatively short processing time, efficiency is three times the pretreatment of dipping, but the disadvantage is that the nozzle is easy to block, resulting in uneven spraying, affecting the quality.

 

Impregnation pretreatment is the direct impregnation of pharmaceutical aluminum coil, contact reaction with the treatment solution, the contact surface is complete, but the reaction time is relatively long, generally used for low-speed coating or low-speed separate extension line.

 

No-rinse pretreatment is a process that does not require water rinsing after treatment. The advantage is that multiple coils can be treated with the same treatment and there is no wastewater discharge problem. The key is to apply the agent evenly on the surface of the aluminum plate. Dry film, to meet this requirement, can be processed by roller coating or spray drying.

 

Aluminum: A Guide to Pretreatment and Roll Coating

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Roll coating process

Roll coating rolls are coated with coating rolls as the coating carrier. The coating forms a wet film of a certain thickness on the surface of the coating roller. With the help of the contact between the coating roller and the coated material during the rotation, the coating is applied to the surface of the coated material.
Roller rolls are suitable for coating of metal sheets, especially for high speed coating of metal rolls. Roller roll requires coating with good leveling, wettability and adhesion, and has a certain hardness. It has good weatherability and stain resistance, fast curing speed and fast film formation. Roll coating has the following characteristics.


(1) High-speed automatic coating operation, fast coating speed and high production efficiency.
(2) No paint mist, paint utilization rate is close to 100%.
(3) Applicable to various viscous paints, film thickness can be precisely controlled and the thickness is uniform.
(4) Both front and back side coating can be applied simultaneously.


Aluminum surface coating is not much different from any other painting process. The foil, sheet or plate must be stretched tightly to minimize wrinkles and ensure a smooth surface. Since aluminum is one of the most difficult metals to paint, a primer called an adhesion promoter is usually applied prior to coloring. It ensures that the coating adheres better to the aluminum. The primer can be applied with a spray gun, roller or brush.

 

LITONG supplies Coil Coating lines and production lines for construction and many other industries. If you want to know what color coated aluminum we can supply for your market, please feel free to contact us!


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