The 9000ft² paint facility enables GI Plastek to apply shielding to parts as large as 4ft by 5ft on a controlled, mechanized line. GI Plastek’s paint operation runs two shifts a day, five days a week, increasing customer throughput potential. The line has four drafted booths for priming, painting, coating and texturing operations, along with an in-line convection oven. GI Plastek can apply spray-on EMI and RFI shielding onto most substrates.
Conductive spray-on material is a far more cost effective option than large, heavy sheet metal liners or sheet metal enclosure doors. Spray-on shielding reduces the number of parts used on instruments, eliminating the cost of a box within a box and associated attachment parts. This in turn reduces overall product cost.
The availability of in-house shielding capabilities is a benefit to customers who want to keep the entire process under one roof to control quality and production time – from moulding plastic parts, to finishing processes, to coating/painting and decorating.
