Catalytic Gel Ovens Offer Small Operational Footprint

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WolfRayet has designed a range of catalytic gel ovens to deliver a more efficient and effective powder coating process. These gel ovens are said to have a small operational footprint and deliver a high-tech, low operating cost solution to improve on existing convection curing.

A longwave IR catalytic gel oven directly heats the powder causing it to gel or fuse. This speeds up the convection oven process and can be useful for those using low-temperature cure powders as well as both textured and higher temperature powders. After gelling, the powder cannot be blown off in the convection oven and this minimizes the chance of cross contamination.

“A catalytic pre-gel oven is a very simple addition to the powder coating process,” says Mike Chapman, chief technical and strategy officer at WolfRayet. “But it can bring significant advantages, including a rapid increase in surface temperature, improved convection heating efficiency and the potential for increasing line speed, enabling greater throughput. What’s more, oven maintenance is greatly reduced, which can be a huge time and efficiency saver.”

With decades of curing and oven experience, and developments in oven technology, WolfRayet says its oven products are carefully designed and produced to deliver a well-suited curing process to improve efficiencies and line savings.

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