Customer Success -- The Nordson Difference

Powder coaters around the world are using Nordson technology to improve their productivity, quality and efficiency. They already know The Nordson Difference.

U.S. custom coater wanted to become an approved applicator by major powder manufacturers for architectural coatings

Installed Nordson ColorMax® System with Automatic Feedback Controls on the guns
Reduced powder use on the line 40 percent, increased line speed 25 percent for most products and increased product density on the line.
Reduce color changes to 10 to 15 minutes (from 20 to 60 minutes), which reduced lost production time. Improved production schedules from 2 shifts and 12+ hours, to one 8-hour shift.
“Payback through increased productivity and material savings has been good, but more important is the quality of the finish and ability to control mil thickness."

U.S. custom coater wanted to increase production and get faster color changes without cross contamination

Installed the ColorMax® System with Apogee® canopy and iControl® System
Nordson powder coating system “gives us ‘must-have’ repeatability and consistency”
Production line now operates at a good 12-FPM clip, and can run continuously with 15-minute gaps in the line when a color change is required.
“When we say a 15-minute color change we mean a color change where the first part through the line after changing colors is perfectly free of cross contamination.”

Custom coater with significant business in office furniture and automotive, fitness and other industrial products. With production well into a million parts per month, invested in Nordson’s Prodigy HDLV dense-phase powder coating technology with phenomenal results:

30 to 35 percent increase in efficiency on 90 percent of powders sprayed Annual ROI savings of $140,000 on a single part, based on 3-hour/day production Increased throughout 25 percent on Prodigy lines
Fast color change capability allows for 80% of the parts received are coated and shipped back the same day
Success of the first HDLV/Prodigy system prompted this customer coater to convert a second line to Nordson’s dense-phase powder coating technology.

For one precision sheet metal fabricator and finisher, HDLV® technology has provided a big boost to its golf cart finishing line.

With two Nordson Prodigy® powder coating systems, the job shop cut coating time in half – from 28 minutes to 14 minutes, and increased output 30 percent.

A playground manufacturer uses Nordson HDLV technology for spraying textures and metallics, averaging 40 color changes per shift, running two shifts per day.

Results include an increase in line speed from 4 fpm to 5.5 fpm, and reduced color-change time from 3.5 minutes to 45 seconds that significantly improved productivity and operating efficiency.
Higher transfer efficiency has reduced scrap powder as much as 80 percent. Previously, one drum per shift was scrapped; now, one drum every four to six shifts is scrapped.

One retail fixture manufacturer now gets more powder on the part and greater powder material savings using Nordson Prodigy HDLV System.

Powder material savings has improved 24 percent and line speed increased from 11 fpm to 15 fpm, while color-change time has dropped from four minutes to one minute.

A leading manufacturer of refrigerated display cases replaced its venturi-based equipment with Nordson Prodigy HDLV powder coating technology.

In just eight months, the company saved $300,000 in powder material costs and greater line density by reducing line spacing.

Dense-Phase Powder Coating Technology