TKS is a distributor of Encore Automation products, services, and systems. TKS & Encore have experience with: Many Application Materials: Solventborne and Waterborne Primer, Basecoat and Clearcoat, and Multiple Component (2K) Paints. Paint Applicators: Electrostatic Gun or Electrostatic Rotary Atomizer, Direct Charge Waterborne Applicators, and Air Atomized Guns, Various Application Equipment: suppliers including Sames, ABB, Durr, Carlisle, and all major brands. Paint Robots and/or Paint Machines: suppliers include Fanuc, ABB, Kawasaki, and all major brands. Encore Automation has system knowledge and experience to optimally specify, configure, layout, simulate, engineer, design, assemble, test, install, commission, process, tune, and provide training and service on systems for the above applications and materials for using many of the above equipment options.
Automation systems spray a PVC or Polyurethane based material onto the rocker panel, sill, and under body to prevent stones and rocks from chipping the paint in this area. Also known as stone guard chip or SGC. TKS is a General Contractor for building industrial manufacturing plants, offering turn-key services including project management, construction site supervision, oversight of skilled trades and subcontractors, quality assurance, start-up, commissioning, and spray trials.
From High-pressure water sprays to De-greasing to Surface Conditioner and Phosphate, and now, Metal Oxide Pretreatment for Aluminum bodies, TKS offers up to 10 different process steps to configure for your application. TKS has a patented counterflow design circulation system for Electro-deposition (ED) tanks. Rather than a traditional eddy swirling, which kicks up dirt from the bottom of the tank, our Counter-flow technology moves the entire ED current in one direction, from exit to entry. At vehicle entry the e-coat paint / UF water mixture is pulled through a UF filter module, and pumped back to the end of the tank. This ensures that the last layers of ED coating are the cleanest. See even more info on https://www.tksindustrial.com/automation-robots.
TKS can design heated flash off tunnels for your paint process, using a heater box to provide hot air blow (HAB) to allow for the waterborne paint to set prior to the next coat of paint. Typically followed by a short cooling tunnel with cold air blow (CAB) to return the vehicle to near room temperature before the next layer of paint is applied.
All four major ovens: E-coat oven, Sealer oven, (optional) Primer oven, and Topcoat oven all consist of heat-up and hold zones. In a 3-wet paint booth process arrangement, there isn’t a Primer oven, instead a heated flash off (HFO) is used. Sometimes there are also smaller ovens for black-out and cavity wax. We offer a paint-drying oven that responds to temperature increases in body areas. The oven design will increase heating in zones of thick parts, such as sill inners or pillars where it is difficult to dry paints, while maintaining the temperature of keep-zones with a minimized flow rate to reduce dirt contamination and reduce energy usage.
TKS Industrial Company is a world class designer and builder of Paint Finishing Systems and Pollution Abatement Systems for the automotive and related industries. We are dedicated to continually provide our customers with products and services of only the highest possible quality. See additional info at paint ovens.