Spraying and Coating

Kirkco single and multiple-component coating solutions improves productivity, reduces operating and maintenance costs and sprays the highest quality finishes and coatings in the harshest environments.

Our goal is to take the guesswork out of selecting the right pump, spray package or proportioner for your Spraying and Coating application and provided value through intensive customer support by solving the most difficult coating needs. We always find the optimal solution for a customer's application. This intensive cooperation in all phases of a project, coupled with broad expertise, creates lasting value for the customer that only a reliable solution can provide.

Whether applying multiple-component paints or coatings, transferring liquids, or fighting rust and corrosion, Kirkco would be pleased to offer our assistance as your source for the high performance fluid handling equipment that is specifically designed and engineered with the solution in mind.

Click on a link below to learn more about Spraying and Coating Components:

• Coating Systems for 2 Part Water Based Adhesives
• Fusion Spray Gun
• Material Tanks and Circulation Systems
• Protective Coating / Finishing Supply Pumps
• Spray Packages
• Reactor Polyurea Spray Application System
• Two Component Paint & Coating Proportioner Systems
• Paint Applicators
• Multi-Component Paint Systems
• Wagner Powder Coating

LIQUID APPLICATION

Writing implements, TV housings, cell phones, laptops and commercial vehicle bodywork, as well as kitchens, wheel rims, yachts and cranes all have something in common? These products and many more are coated using some of our systems and components. Depending on the particular requirements and the environment in which a customer's products will be used, a wide variety of materials can be employed, such as top coats, primers, release agents, adhesives, corrosion protection and more - with either water or solvent based materials.

To be able to process this broad range of materials, we offer components and systems precisely tailored to the requirements of each individual customer. We are one of only a few suppliers to offer the full spectrum of products and technologies needed throughout the entire process chain - from material feeding and mixing to transporting and controlling and, finally, to application of the material on the surface.

Efficient use of resources, maximum quality and economy is what we stand for in everything we do.

POWDER APPLICATION

Kirkco provides user-friendly, economical and environmentally sound - WAGNER industrial powder coating systems and components. With a focus on continuing research and development and numerous innovations and improvements, WAGNER has had a major impact on the advancement of powder coating technologies for more than 25 years.

This is why WAGNER is able to guarantee its customers reproducible coating results of exceptional quality - even in the case of complex, fully automated processes and unusually shaped coating objects.

Customers around the world rely on our know-how in application techniques, motion and control engineering, powder logistics and booth and recovery technologies.

FROM THE CONTAINER TO THE SPRAY GUN

Paints, stains, release agents, primers, adhesives and chemicals, whether they have a high or low viscosity, are watery or have a high solid content - they all must pass from the container (can, drum, etc.) to the spray gun. In addition, the material must arrive at the spray gun at a certain pressure. These demands are met by pumps and pressure tanks, which can be differentiated into:

• Piston Pumps
• Diaphragm Pumps
• Pressure Tanks
• Ram Pumps

In addition, a special technology called the hot-spraying method lowers material viscosity by heating the substance. This leads to an optimized spraying pattern and more consistent processes.

Pumps feed the materials through piping and hoses from the container to the spray gun. The entire assembly of this type of system, i.e. the pumps and feed lines, is called the paint supply system

THE PAINT SUPPLY SYSTEM

A simple paint supply system consists of a pump and the associated feed lines to the application device. To avoid having to interrupt production in order to change the color or material, a paint supply system can contain, depending on the required scope, a multitude of pumps and piping systems suitable for a large number of different processing materials, colors and application methods.

For a complex paint supply system of this magnitude, it is advisable to have an overall plan drawn up for the entire system that takes into account any special requirements.

The material is applied to the work-piece at the outlet of the paint supply system. Various application processes are available for this purpose

FEED METHODS

Material feed methods can be differentiated into two different types: pumps and pressure tanks. Pumps, in turn, are subdivided into piston pumps and diaphragm pumps. A special type of pump is the so-called ram pump for particularly viscous materials such as greases and adhesive and sealants.

PISTON PUMPS

Piston pumps draw the material out of the container and apply the necessary pressure to push it through hoses or pipes to the spray gun. Most piston pumps offered by Kirkco are pneumatically operated, however, hydraulically driven pumps are available when required for certain applications. Piston pumps are classified by pump ratio and volumetric flow. They are suitable for low to high viscosity materials and flow rates.

DIAPHRAGM PUMPS

In diaphragm pumps, the material is drawn out of the container via a double diaphragm and fed through hoses or pipes to the spray gun with the necessary pressure. All Wagner diaphragm pumps are double membrane pumps characterized by a material feed with very low pulsation. These pumps can be grouped into simple double diaphragm pumps, ratio double diaphragm pumps and high pressure double diaphragm pumps.

PRESSURE TANKS

Pressure tanks accomplish several tasks at once. They feed material by means of compressed air that puts the contents under pressure. The supply of material from a pressure tank is absolutely free of pulsation and continuous. In addition, the pressure tank acts as a material storage facility

HOT SPRAYING

Increasing a material's temperature lowers its viscosity, an effect that can normally only be achieved by thinning the material with a solvent. A further benefit of hot spraying is that the processing temperature remains constant because the material is not subject to temperature fluctuations at the workstation. This helps ensure consistent result

EXTRUSION / RAM PUMP PACKAGES

This special type of piston pump is used with materials of very high viscosity for which the suction of conventional pumps is insufficient, such as greases, lubricants, sealants, adhesives, etc. In ram pumps, the material is fed into the pump by means of pressure and/or a scoop piston. The pump then feeds the material to the spray gun with the necessary pressure.