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Process Cleaning recently spoke with three companies with extensive experience in drying. Each approaches this segment of the market from a slightly different angle, supplying products for both large and small parts, ranging from air knives to ovens.

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ITW Gema and Halo Coatings Team up To Market New
Retro-Reflective Coating

Indianapolis, Ind., ITW Gema and MKB llc (Halo Coatings) announced that they have reached an agreement on a strategic global partnership to promote a new technology, known as the Halo Process. This unique process utilizes powder coatings that are designed to reflect light; and this major breakthrough in coating materials is expected to impact markets where nighttime safety or reflectivity is important.

Retro-reflectivity is the return of light to your eye along the same path as the light source – the functional principle in all nighttime safety tape used on products such as street signs, truck delineation, or bicycle reflectors. With the Halo Process, retro-reflective powder coatings can now offer tremendous benefits in place of tape application and “light up at night” for improved safety.
Aaron Bates, Chief Executive Officer, MKB states – “Aside from being a pioneer in the powder coating industry, we are glad to partner with ITW Gema so that our customers take advantage of the expertise and support they need to use the Halo Coating Process.”

“Halo Coatings has developed a truly innovative material technology that opens markets to the improved benefits of powder coating, while enhancing the end use product appearance. We are excited to be an integral part of the solution for this application with Halo Coating’s products,” says Chris Merritt, General Manager of ITW Gema, North America.

This new partnership allows ITW Gema, the world’s leading supplier of powder coating application and recovery equipment and Halo Coatings, the leading developer of retro-reflective powder coatings, to join together and provide a manufacturing solution for producing products with a retro-reflective surface on nearly any substrate, and in three dimensional configurations and shapes. Guardrails that become life saving rays of light at night; bicycles that can be fully seen in the dark from over 1,000 feet away and hi-viz shopping carts are just a few of the new products that are now made possible with the ITW Gema/Halo Coatings partnership.

MKB is a privately held, Ohio based, Sales and Technology Company offering products and services for any highway, industrial, transportation and consumer markets. Visit www.halocoatings.com or call (216) 916-7788.

ITW Gema, a business unit of the Illinois Tool Works Corporation, with North American Headquarters located Indianapolis, Indiana, provides application and recovery solutions for the powder coating market. For more information, contact Karen Walters by telephone at (317) 298-5072, by email at kwalters@itwgema.com, or visit us on the web at www.itwgema.us.

Modean Industries, Inc. is a powder coating systems integrator and a Representative of ITW Gema. To learn more about us and for additional information, please visit our website at www.modeanindustries.com. We can also be reached by telephone at 203-371-6625 or via email at hazzam@modeanindustries.com.

ITW Gema’s Magic Center® Powder Management System
for XTreme Color Change Environments™

Indianapolis, Indiana — ITW Gema’s NEW Magic Center® is the perfect powder management system to achieve XTreme Productivity™ for making multiple color changes.

The revolutionary Magic Center is the best color management system available for powder coating. Included in the system are the application controls, the gun mover axis controls and the fresh powder supply. The fully automatic cleaning process reduces color change times significantly and the Magic Center is quick to install and easy to operate!

The OptiSpeeder® is the heart of the Magic Center and combines the powder feed and cleaning functions into one compact unit. The OptiSpeeder’s improved fluidization and low maintenance pumps deliver powder to the guns using less compressed air, resulting in a softer powder cloud for improved transfer efficiency. During the Magic Center’s automated cleaning, the OptiSpeeder empties the remaining powder for reuse, and purges the pumps and all of the powder hoses… quickly and efficiently. Because the OptiSpeeder is a completely sealed and closed system – this is a dustless process! The “one-button cleaning operation” allows one operator to complete a total color change in 10 minutes or less!

The Magic Center Powder Management System is a complement to ITW Gema’s Magic Cylinder® and Magic Compact® powder coating booths. All powder coating system controls are integrated into the Magic Center’s compact design, making it the ideal color management solution for the Magic Series™ booths. With its advanced “one-button” automated cleaning process, color changes are streamlined and times are cut significantly. The Magic Center is easily integrated into any configuration, whether automatic, pre-coating, touch-up stations or any combination. Almost any solution is possible!

Learn how to get Quick Color Changes for your Powder Coating System, by contacting ITW Gema at (800) 628-0601 or by email at powdersales@itwgema.com.

ITW Gema continues to be a pioneer in the powder coating industry and a global manufacturer of superior quality powder coating equipment. As a business unit of the Illinois Tool Works Corporation, ITW Gema operates its North American Headquarters from Indianapolis, Indiana. For more information, contact Karen Walters by telephone at (317) 298-5072, by email at kwalters@itwgema.com or on the web at www.itwgema.us.