Technical insights, guides, and articles on powder coating from Oracle Industries' engineering team.
Outgassing is a substrate problem that shows up in the coating. Where the defects sit tells you the cause, and pre-baking usually proves the diagnosis and the fix at once.
Read More →Orange peel is a flow-out defect decided in the ninety seconds between melt and gel. Film thickness, heat-up rate and particle size are the only three variables that matter.
Read More →Peeling is almost never a powder problem. How to read the exposed metal, test adhesion to ASTM D3359, and work through the four causes in order of frequency.
Read More →Galvanising is sacrificial and protects even at a scratch. Powder coating is a barrier and does not. Why the two are usually combined, and how to get duplex right.
Read More →Anodising grows a hard oxide out of the aluminium; powder coating applies a film on top. Anodising reveals the substrate, powder coating conceals it, which decides more projects than any performance figure.
Read More →Powder coating wins on durability, material efficiency and emissions; liquid paint wins on flexibility. The full comparison, and a three-question test for which fits your part.
Read More →Peeling, orange peel, fisheyes, outgassing, Faraday cage. What each defect looks like, how to confirm the cause rather than guess, and what to change.
Read More →108 powder coating terms defined in plain English, with the test methods and standards behind them. For anyone who needs to read a specification and know what it claims.
Read More →IS 13871 is India’s own standard for thermosetting powder coatings. What the three grades mean, the full requirements table, and how to read a supplier’s test data against it.
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