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How to care for powder coat

How to care for powder coat

Keeping your powder coated parts clean is central to ensuring the coating lasts a long time and always looks its best. The vibrant colours and range of textures and finishes powder coating offers over traditional wet paints means they've found favour in recent decades as a decorative finish, not just a hard-wearing industrial top-coat.

While powder coatings are traditionally harder-wearing than most wet paint alternatives, they still need to be washed regularly with a good quality soap in ordinary water. Do not use solvents on powder coat. 

If you're wanting to polish powder coat to give a deep, lustrous shine we recommend 

If you want to coat something which will live outdoors, check the powder and colour are UV-stable as some finishes aren't. The Acid Green used here is UV-stable and packs a huge visual punch!

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