What is Powder Coating Cost Efficiency© (PCCE)?

PCCE is a methodology to measure and understand the true coverage and cost efficiency of your powder coating system. PCCE exposes the flaw when standard transfer efficiency method, used for years in the powder industry, is used to measure application efficiency.

Transfer Efficiency Method

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Consider the following example where the dry film build is 3.0 mil

Transfer
Efficiency Test
Example 1

Powder used: 10 lbs
Weight gain of test panels: 8 lbs
Transfer efficiency: 8/10=.80= 80% TE
Dry film build: 3.9 Mil

Transfer
Efficiency Test
Example 2

Powder used: 8 lbs
Weight gain of test panels: 5 lbs
Transfer efficiency: 5/8=.62= 62% TE
Dry film build: 3.4 Mil

Results

Based on traditional transfer efficiency methodology test #1 is the most efficient.

However, a complete review of all data gathered by using the PCCE method will make it clear test #2 is the most efficient and will actually result in a 20% savings in powder.