Vacuum solutions engineered for paints & coatings
The industry where fine powder meets flammable solvent in the same building — coatings manufacturing handles combustible pigment and resin powders on the dry side and flammable solvents on the wet side, with powder-coating production adding a combustible thermoset powder of its own. Recovery is specified to whichever hazard the area actually presents.
Dual-Hazard Aware
Combustible powder & flammable solvent
Solvent-Aware
Class I areas on the wet side
HEPA Filtration
Pigment & filler fines retained
Built for Coatings
Liquid paint & powder coating
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Paints & Coatings production process explorer
Every stage. Every challenge. The right vacuum solution.
A coatings plant blends powders into liquids or produces dry powder coating, shedding fine dust on the dry side and running flammable solvents on the wet side. Walk the stages and the hazard each one presents.
Stage 01 — Raw-material handling
Pigments, extenders, fillers and resins arrive as fine powders; handling begins with the recognition that organic pigments and resins are combustible while mineral fillers are respirable.
Key challenges
Powder on one side, solvent on the other
Combustible Pigments & Resins
Organic pigments and resin powders are combustible fine dusts — handled with grounded, rated recovery, exactly as any combustible organic dust.
Flammable Solvents
Solvent-borne dispersion, let-down and thinning create Class I flammable atmospheres, so recovery equipment must be rated for the atmosphere on the wet side.
Solvent-Borne Liquids & Sludge
Spills and residues on solvent lines need recovery configured for flammable liquids, not the dry-dust assumptions of the powder side.
Respirable Fillers
Extenders such as calcium carbonate and talc are largely inert and non-combustible, while silica fillers are respirable — HEPA retention covers the fine mineral fraction either way.
Heavy-Metal Pigments
Where legacy or specialty pigments carry heavy-metal components, that dust is captured under sealed, HEPA-retained handling as an exposure control.
Powder-Coating Powder
Thermoset powder-coating material is a combustible plastic dust with static behavior — grounded, static-dissipative recovery, covered further in the powder coating application guide.
Dust & materials knowledge center
What coatings manufacturing handles
Combustibility and severity are material- and particle-size-specific — testing and your Dust Hazard Analysis govern. Full directory: the full materials directory.
Applications in paints & coatings
- Chemical manufacturing
- Powder mixing
- Pigment production
- Resin production
- Plastic compounding
- Solvent recovery
- Catalyst production
- Fertilizer production
- Polymer production
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Grounded, bonded recovery for combustible dust
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99.99% filtration for fine and hazardous dust
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Continuous-duty recovery for demanding plants
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Pneumatic Vacuums
Air-operated — no electrical components
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Representative case study
Controlling Coating Powder in an Automotive
How a representative automotive components finisher brought fugitive coating powder and color-change cleanout under control — grounded recovery in a process that charges combustible polymer dust on purpose.
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