Finishing Services

A great paint job is one of the best ways to make your product stand out from the crowd. Using only the finest PPG automotive polyurethanes, we can replicate virtually any color, tint, or hue in our climate-controlled, automated spray room. Our master painters can supply millions of colors, in matte, flat, semi-gloss, or glossy finishing.

You can also have a soft-touch paint coating on almost any surface, either plastic or metal. This type of paint gives a matte-finished, non-slip texture that also blocks glare and hides fingerprints. It’s common on hand-held controllers and front panels on consumer goods that get touched a lot.

The coating is clear and so it won’t change the color of the base material. Product developers should note that soft coatings are not a substitute for actual rubber or elastomer overmoldings, which are much more durable.

Many products require a company’s brand name or logo printed on the surface. How is this done? One way is to use pad printing. Your desired image is embossed onto a hard rubber block. This becomes a stamp that we use to imprint simple words and graphics on flat or slightly curved surfaces. Pad printing finishing is very inexpensive and fast. Pad printing is limited, however, to a single color at a time.

What if you need more color options, or you have a complex graphic you want to apply? Silk screen printing may be the answer. It involves using a fine mesh screen that’s partially covered by a stencil of the desired pattern. For more complicated images or multiple colors, several different screens and stencils are used in series.

Paint is then squeezed through the mesh and onto the surface of the substrate in every location that’s not blocked by the stencil. With careful choreography, it’s possible to make sophisticated multi-colored images, tex,t, and colored patterns on almost any hard flat surface. Silk screen printing is inexpensive and versatile, and stencils can be made quickly. Is it right for your project? Contact us to learn more.

Blasting means spraying some type of abrasive media onto the workpiece. Examples of abrasives include sand, garnet, walnut shells, or high-pressure water. It’s used to clean and de-burr parts while preparing them both mechanically and chemically for later surface finishes. Blasting finishing also imparts unique textures, frosting, pebbling, etc. Check out our blog to learn more about other popular methods for finishing a metal surface.