We decided to answer the most common question we get from customers about the Sandblasting and Priming. Is a primer necessary under top coating and what’s the most important item of the successful coating? The most important part of a successful coating system is to prepare the metal for priming and top coating. Surface preparation is a vital step to ensuring the quality and longevity of metal coatings. Without proper preparation, even the most advanced metal coating technolo

High-temperature Powder Coatings is a series of silicone-based functional coatings providing excellent: Heat Resistance, Corrosion Resistance and High Colour retention. Hight Temparature Powder coatings can be applied on: Grills; Fireplace stands; Stoves; Exhaust pipes; Lighting fixtures; Generators; and many more. High-Temperature Powder Coating Colour Options For our customers we offer colours that will make your products look great and stand out. To ensure best colour accu

Introducing the UHQ – Ultra High Quality Team! Latest new Arkote innovation –  installation! We have invested in new equipment and assembled a team of careful and fastidious operators to process requests for powder coating on items that require a very high quality finish. Producing super good quality on small parts that require a high degree of careful attention and a defect free finish. Doesn’t matter if it’s: aluminium, steel, machined, castings, fabrications, foldings, she

Welcome to another blog & video about our team! At Arkote we would like to take the opportunity to build a better service to you, so we can improve both our business and our relationship with you, as our customer. We are serious about looking after you and our latest changes are aimed at making things easier, faster and simpler! So part of this is our helpful and experienced customer service team. Let us introduce you to David Newlands, he is a part of the dedicated customer

Today we want to take you through one of the quality checks we do here on every job we process. We do this to maintain an extremely high industry leading quality standard so that we have confidence that the job we are doing for you will perform outstandingly well in its service life. The most common cause of poor performance of powder coating is an under cured powder film. Powder coat resistance to chipping, flaking and ultimately its ability to protect your component from ru

Why does Powder Coat gloss and colour sometimes fade quickly? This is most commonly due to under cure of the powder coat film and therefore the incomplete film integrity leading to poor performance. Why does Powder Coat chip and flake off easily ? Powder coating chip and flakes off, because of poor surface preparation prior to the powder coating process. If there are any oils or contaminants on the metal that aren’t cleaned off thoroughly, the powder coating is almost guarant