Steel 101 You’ll Find This Free Online Tutorial Riveting If your manufacturing process requires the use of steel, you need to know steel inside and out. Learn the fundamental and vital facts of steel in our FREE Online Tutorial “Steel 101”.       Choosing The Right Prepainted Metal For Your Product Key Questions To Help You Get Started If you’re considering using prepainted metal for one or all of your end products, there are a few important questions to ask yourself to determine which prepainted material is right for your application. Knowing where and how the product will be used impacts your choice of substrate, coating, and even the manufacturing process itself. For help making optimal choices, click here.       One Manufacturer Notes The Disadvantages Of Powder Coating While VOC Level Improves, Much Else Declines For a manufacturer located in Toledo, Ohio, the experience of switching their liquid paints to powder paints has been a tough one. The company, which manufactures chemical surface treating, baked organic enameling & custom assembling, was under pressure from the EPA to decrease its VOCS. Though they were successful in meeting EPA guidelines and reducing their VOC level, much else has declined. Click here to read more.         Prepainting Metal Provides Many Design Options Not Available With Post-Paint Embossing, Printing, Striping, Stamping, Forming Can All Be Done With Coil Coating Using prepainted metal does more than help companies save costs and time, it also allows them to produce graphically appealing and unique products. With prepaint, design possibilities are nearly endless. From embossing to printing to striping, stamping and forming—it can all be done in the process of prepainting steel and aluminum. This is a major advantage over post-painting, which bears more restrictions in terms of design options. Click here to find out how.   Making Metal History In 1855, a man named Henry Bessemer in England designed and built the first ‘converter,’ or furnace, for processing steel by adding wrought iron and pig iron, referred to today as ‘cast iron.’ This enabled Andrew Carnegie of U.S. Steel and Edgar Thompson of Bethlehem Steel to begin to process steel in large amounts in the Industrial Revolution. Railroad tracks, shipbuilding, and skyscrapers all benefited from this new metal with remarkable strength. No more collapsing cast iron bridges or breaking railroad tracks!   To learn more about how prepainted coils can save costs, time, and hassles for your organization, surf, email, or call: National Coil Coating Association 1300 Sumner Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44115–2851 www.coilcoatinginstitute.org ncca@coilcoating.org P: (216) 241–7333
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