Powder Coating Sublimation
This decorative powder coating system can be used to create realistic wood grains and custom images.
Hoosier Coatings (Nappanee, Ind.) is one of the select coaters in the country who can take something like this aluminum countertop and make it look just like marble through a sublimation process. “Wood, granite, and marble are just the beginning of what this process is capable of,” Hoosier Coatings CFO Jimmy Faroh explains. “Decoral is a cutting-edge decorative powder coating system able to create amazingly realistic wood grains and custom images on aluminum, steel, iron, glass and countless other materials with complex shapes.”
Products are initially powder coated. A transfer film, printed with special inks, is then applied under vacuum for a tight contact. Products are then loaded into a decoration machine at high temperature that turns the inks into a gas that penetrates deep into the coated layer. The used films are peeled off to reveal the images and the products are ready for shipment.
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