The Swiss industry association carrosserie suisse produces the official association magazine "carrossier" every two months. It is published bilingually in German and French with a circulation of 2500 copies. The trade journal has now published a report on airmatic system technology, which we reproduce here verbatim:
It is a fact that gun air is an important adjustment screw for improving the painting result. The airmatic system technology from ensutec Products GmbH combines several components to optimize the painting process by preparing the atomizing air.
Heating, cooling if necessary and, depending on the system selected, air conditioning ensure that the user has atomizing air with a constant temperature and humidity all year round. This ensures high surface quality even when processing critical colors or when outside temperatures are high.
The core technology is a specially developed high-voltage unit (EMP unit), in which the atomizing air is passed through a neutral electrical field, thereby creating a more homogeneous paint jet.
Higher transfer efficiency
The droplet size distribution is more even and the application efficiency increases with the jet width. The interaction of these components results in a significant reduction in overspray, among other things.
Demonstrations and tests show material savings of up to 30 percent in practice while simultaneously increasing surface quality. As additional components, ensutec offers systems for multi-gun or multi-workstation applications, as well as ATEX approval for installation in Ex Zone 2 as well as for robot and automatic painting systems in the industrial and automotive sectors.
In collaboration with Esslingen University of Applied Sciences and the automotive supplier BIX, ensutec's systems have been scientifically investigated in recent years and the effect and advantages of airmatic technology on both plastic and metal have been demonstrated in field tests. It was proven that the use of airmatic atomization optimization results in a more even droplet size distribution over a larger area of the paint jet, regardless of the substrate. At the same time, switching on airmatic increases the application efficiency and noticeably reduces overspray.