Dry Ice Blasting for Removing E-Coat in Paintshops
How to remove e-coat quickly and efficiently? Dry ice blasting is the fastest and most cost efficient method for e-coat removal, especially from process machinery and factory flooring. E-coat is a process employed mainly in the automotive industry when painting cars. It uses electricity to bind a paint primer to the shell of the vehicle. During the process the e-coat paint becomes ‘sticky’ and binds to lots of other process machinery. Dry ice blasting is perfect in removing this sticky coating.
Optimum Dry Ice Blasting have extensive experience in this field, having worked with most of the UK’s car manufacturers, we feel that we have the experience to tackle the largest e-coat removal projects.
Dry ice blasting has many advantages over traditional cleaning methods for removing e-coat in paint shops.
- Speed – process tools and machinery can be cleaned in-situ
- No Chemicals – traditional methods to remove e-coat involve chemical stripping that can leave traces on process equipment. Dry ice blasting is a dry and chemical free process.
- Non Abrasive – dry ice blasting is a non abrasive, non destructive process, meaning we can’t peen or damage process equipment.
- Safety – reduce the risk of critical failure with a higher frequency of cleaning. E-coat can hide important features of a machine structure, such as weld lines. Weld lines need constantly checking for cracks which, by removing e-coat, can then be assesed.
Why Choose Optimum Dry Ice Blasting?
Over the years Optimum have developed robust systems to monitor, audit and trace the frequency needed to avoid critical failure within a paint shop workflow process. Our system is now running at two car plants in the UK and has reduced risk to zero.
We have also developed a cross contamination capture method to avoid e-coat re lining delicate process machinery, which anyone in the industry knows is a massive problem.
