Designed to apply and cure a variety of liquid coatings, primarily on plastic parts, but also metal parts can be processed as well with equal effectiveness.  The basic technology employed on the lines is a Chain on Edge transportation conveyor, allowing processing speeds up to 30 feet per minute, flexible part positioning with part centerlines on 2 multiples, automated de-ionizing air cleaning, in-line automated Plasma Treatment, automatic Feather Duster parts cleaning and vacuum, and multiples spray booths and application devices.

While originally designed to process mobile phone housings, the line can accommodate the processing of parts as large as accessory covers for laptop computers for Dell, as well as parts as geometrically complex as cable box bezels for Scientific Atlanta.  The line exploits the numerous advantages of high transfer efficiency provided by electrostatic Rotary Atomizers for application and UV Curing Technology for excellent Physical Properties.

The California Air Resources Board has identified the Electrostatic application method in combination with High Solids UV Coatings as an Environmental Best Practice, and there is no method of processing small plastic parts that is lower cost.

This line was already in place when The Color Works was purchased by Bush in 1996.  It was the original source for UV top coating of the first Cubic Printed Nokia mobile phone housings processed beginning in May of ’96.  It was later adapted to process Solid Color mobile phone housings when Nokia shifted it’s design strategy away from Cubic Printing.  The line has been used to process mobile phone housings for Ericsson, Sony-Ericsson, Motorola, and Qualcomm / Kyocera.

“COE 1 Process Sequence”

• Load
• Automatic De-Ionizing
• Plasma Pre-Treatment
• Feather Duster Cleaning and Vacuum
• Prep-Spray application and Flash
• Spray Booth #1 (Electrostatic Rotary Bell or Reciprocating Electrostatic Gun)
• Flash
• Infrared Curing, (3 independent zones)
• Cool down zone
• Pre-Spray application and Flash
• Spray Booth #2 (Electrostatic Rotary Bell or Reciprocating Electrostatic Gun)
• Flash
• UV Curing Chamber
• Cool down zone
• Unload