CONDUCTIVE PRIMERS FOR ELECTRODEPOSITION COATINGS

To electroplate or coat plastic materials with powder paint or metal, a conductive primer coating needs to be applied to the plastic first.  KIA has smooth finish conductive coatings that can be applied to rigid or semi-rigid plastics.

Due to its exceptional smoothness, coated parts exhibit better DOI or PGD than other conductive primers, coatings, or paints.
Profilometer tests show:
    7-11 microns without coating or primer paint
    3-5 microns with our coating or primer paint
    Conventional coatings or primer paints are 13-20 microns

Our E-coatable coatings or primer paints can be applied to almost any type of plastic substrate to achieve excellent surface finish on finished products.

Many primers are in use for promoting transfer efficiency of electrostatically applied coatings.  The surface conductivity of these primers are in the range of 70-165 units as measured by a Ransburg meter.  The maximum reading of 165 translates to a resistance reading of 10 to the 6th power - 10 to the 7th power ohms per square.  All of our conductive primers can be fine tuned to have any range of surface resistance from <10 to the 2nd power to 10 to the 9th power ohms per square.

E-COATABLE PRIMERS MUST HAVE SURFACE RESISTANCE OF 200 OHMS PER SQUARE OR LESS.  WE HAVE IN OUR WKSB-19-601 THE ONLY E-COATABLE PRIMER ON THE MARKET.

Examples of these coatings for transfer efficiency are:

WKSB-22-415   145-165 Randsburg - 20 megohms max
Flexible primer for RIM and other flexible semi-rigid plastics.

WKSB-22-298   about 900 ohms/sq
70 gloss primer for SMC and GTX-910

WALB-22-477   1-10 megohms/sq
Dark Gray Conductive Primer and Primer Surfacer

WKSB-19-601   180 ohms/sq max
Black Conductive Primer for SMC, also E-Coatable

WKSB-25-333   110 ohms/sq max
E-Coatable Primer that can be nickel and copper electroplated.

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