Godwin Manufacturing - Powdercoat Painting Facility

Godwin Manufacturing now offers the most advanced, toughest and most environmentally friendly paint jobs for all of its products. The benefits of powder coating is that it is more abrasion resistant, chemical resistant, corrosion resistant, harder, and more durable. The durability and dependability of steel combined with a powder coated finish will for sure save you money and last a long time to come.

NO SOLVENTS ~ BAKED HARD FINISH ~ LONGER LASTING

TOUGHER ~ ENVIORONMENTALLY FRIENDLY ~ MORE DURABLE

The job then enters the building on the track to be cleaned and painted.

Once inside the building, the cleaning process begins.

The job is loaded onto a unique, moving track by way of chains and hooks specially designed for our needs.

The cleaning process is done by a large shot blaster. Micro-sized BB's of metal are "shot" at the body from all directions, clearing all rust and debris off the job.

In the 5 minutes it takes to clean a job, up to 12 tons of steel shot has been blasted against the metal at the speed of a rifle bullet.

For bodies passing through the shot blaster that have collected shot pellets inside the body, a unique dumping mechanism is used to dump the contents of the body.

Now that the job has been cleaned and also gained a static charge from the metal to metal friction in the shot blaster, painting commences.

Two paint booths are used in the painting process. The first is a computer operated automatic painting system. Sensors turn on and off automatic powder paint guns which paint the job as it moves through.

After leaving the auto-paint booth, the job moves into the second, manual paint booth.

In the manual paint booth, up to four people armed with powder paint guns go over the job to ensure that every nook and crannie is covered with powder paint.

An up close and personal inspection of the entire job is sometimes needed to guarantee that every spot is covered.

Now that the powder paint is on the job and clinging to the metal, it's time for the final step of the powder

coating process.

Baking the powder paint onto the metal is the final step to the process. A large oven uses 450 degrees of heat to cure the paint.

Running an oven at 450 deg. for a prolonged period of time uses a lot of fuel. So much fuel is needed that nine large propane tanks are needed to keep a good stock.

The baking oven measures 156 ft. long. At 9 million BTUs, the oven heats to 450 degrees Fahrenheit.

At the end of the oven, the job then comes back out the same end of the building it originally came in.

As the job leaves the building, it has the chance to cool down in temperature as it makes it way back to where it was originally placed onto the overhead track.