Gas Catalytic IR is easily absorbed by both aqueous and solvent based liquid finishes.

The use of Gas Catalytic IR in liquid curing processes offer the same advantages as in other curing processes such as E Coating and powder coating:

• The 3:1 principle applies. This means that for every 3 minutes a curing process would take in a convection oven, a Gas Catalytic IR oven would only take 1 minute.
• Gas Catalytic IR ovens are 50% the size of a convection oven.
• Gas Catalytic IR Ovens use up to 50% less energy than a convection oven.

Gas Catalytic Infrared Ovens from Vulcan Catalytic® Systems are modular in design, pre-wired and plumbed ready for use within one or two days of on site delivery. Yet, they are custom tailored to the customer’s specific requirements of part size, type of coating, conveyor height and line speed. Our catalytic heaters can be used in hazardous locations and have Factory Mutual and CSA approvals.

How We Can Help You

The engineers at Vulcan Catalytic® Systems design catalytic heating systems for heating processes that require a part temperature of up to 650°F/345°C. Whether it is for plastics, powder or liquid coating, web drying, or preheating, the systems are carefully tested in our state of the art facility, ensuring complete satisfaction before shipping the system.

We Supply:

• Fully built modular ovens, designed, manufactured and installed by us
• We can supply heater and control packages
• Heaters only
• Full package of heaters, controls and gas management assemblies.
• Complete Ovens shipped in modular sections – pre-wired and plumbed.
• We also work with turn key system integrators who supply complete powder coating lines

Please contact us to discuss you requirements.

The move from liquid to powder is well established. The advantages of powder over liquid can be summarized as follows:

• A powder coated finish is significantly tougher than a liquid finish.
• Over spray losses for liquid finishes can be as much as 75%.
• Around 80% of liquid finishes used in the USA are solvent based and present environmental issues.
• Even aqueous based finishes still contain some solvents contained within the resin structure
• The storage and transportation of liquid finishes requires the use of IBC’s (Intermediate Bulk Containers). These require special handling and storage techniques.
• Overall, powder finishes represent a more cost effective way to getting a better finish.

The curing of coatings on non-conductive substrates requires special drying equipment. The parts themselves can be flat MDF boards but also three-dimensional plastic products. The oven must safely cure the paint on the work pieces without causing heat damage to the product itself. Decisive is the response time, infrared emitters respond quickly to control commands and can be controlled individually.

Gas catalytic IR ovens can be equipped with a zone control that allows adjustment of every temperature profile according to the requirements of sensitive product. Our application specialists can establish with You the required oven settings. Various programs to meet the different requirements can be incorporated in the control system and these can be called up on demand.