Nordson is Your Partner in Process Design 

Why Should I Test at Nordson's Test Demonstration Facility?
What are Nordson's Test Facility Capabilities?
What Materials Do I Need to Provide?
What Happens After the Test?
How Do I Get to Nordson? Where Do I Stay?
Any Other Questions?

   


Why Should I Test at Nordson's Test Demonstration Facility?

Here you can see our technology and expertise proven with your parts, under production conditions similar to your own. Our experienced test specialists and applications engineering group are partners in determining process design of your painting operations, in light of current and future production requirements.

What are Nordson's Test Demonstration Capabilities?

The Nordson 16,200-square-foot liquid test demonstration facility is capable of running four independent customer tests/evaluations simultaneously. Products are coated using material, operating speeds and other production parameters as close as possible to your operations.

Our liquid demonstration facility features a wide range of equipment and technology for comprehensive testing: an Allen-Bradley PLC for full automation, rotary atomizers, wide variety of pumps, guns, and automatic gun movers.

The facility includes both water-wash and dry filter spray booths, variable-speed conveyors with power rotators, and variable stroke-speed reciprocators and oscillators. Coating areas are equipped with a gas convection oven and variable-speed booth fans, as well as chain-on-edge, overhead and flatline conveyors. And conference rooms where discussion of test procedures and results, are adjacent to the test areas, provide internet access and offer other amenities during your visit.

The facility also includes equipment and systems to handle environmentally compatible materials that meet stringent safety and emissions standards. Here you will find manual and automatic Iso-Flo® HD voltage-block systems for safe, efficient electrostatic application of waterborne coatings, as well as test capability to coat and cure using UV-curable materials.

Whether you are coating metal, plastic, wood or other heat-sensitive substrates; from automotive components to refrigerator cases, drums or aluminum extrusions, steel and wood furniture, and a wide range of general sheet metal and plastic products, Nordson has the precision dispensing equipment to increase your productivity and improve your operating efficiency.

What Materials Do I Need to Provide?

For a successful test and demonstration of how you can optimize Nordson systems in your operations, it is critical that we have proper materials. Please use the following checklist:

• Minimum of 8 to 10 full racks of cleaned, ready-to-be-coated parts
• Sample of a coated, unretouched part, if possible
• Minimum of three hangers for each part type
• Your Nordson representative will advise you of how much coating material is required for the test. The material, whether shipped from your facility or from your coating supplier, must be accompanied by an MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) and a TDS (Technical Product Data Sheet).

Please identify all materials (including any material shipped from your coating supplier) with the test project number assigned.

What Follows the Test?

Nordson specialists will provide you with the following:

• Detailed test documentation
• Finished parts
• A videotape of the test

All coating materials will be returned to your company or your material supplier.

How Do I Get to Nordson? Where Do I Stay?

We want to make your entire Nordson experience as pleasurable and easy as possible. To do so, please take advantage of the following services:

Blue Jacket Limousine Service. Nordson drivers are available to meet you at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (Central Information Desk on the main floor) and take you to our facilities or your hotel. Please contact your Nordson representative with your flight numbers and arrival/departure times.

Lodging. Special discounts are available to Nordson at local hotels. To receive them, contact your Nordson representative to make appropriate arrangements. Please be sure to tell us the names of all individuals from your company who will be visiting. For hotels and restaurants in the area, click here.

Directions to Nordson's Amherst Facilities. From Hopkins Airport, take I-480 West. I-480 West merges into the Ohio Turnpike (Rt. 80) West. Exit turnpike at Exit 8, Rt. 57. Go North on Rt. 57 to I-90 West. Exit at Middle Ridge Road, and turn left. Cross Rd. 58 and proceed to caution light. Veer right past caution light and continue to Jackson Street, and turn right. Follow signs to visitors parking. For a map with directions to Nordson or to see the Nordson Corporation Amherst campus map, click here.

Any Other Questions?

At Nordson, we've built our reputation on before- and after-the-sale support. Please feel free to contact your Nordson representative toll-free at 800.321.2870 with any other questions you may have about your test.