Media Contact TIGER Coatings

TIGER Coatings was founded in 1930 from a paint shop and today is an internationally active family business with production sites in Austria, Canada, USA, Mexico and Southeast Asia, three research & development centers and a sales network in about 50 countries. The sixth largest powder coating manufacturer in the world, headquartered in Wels, Austria, generated sales of 298,4 million euros in 2023 with about 1,350 employees.

TIGER's high-quality coating solutions – TIGER Drylac^® powder coating and TIGITAL^® Inks & Tattoo for industrial printing systems – underline the value of facades, car wheels, furniture, sports and leisure equipment or machines and protect their surfaces against UV radiation, corrosion, chemical or mechanical effects. With TIGITAL^® 3D-Set , TIGER continues to drive innovation and offers completely new thermoset materials for SLS 3D printing.

Powder coating is one of the most effective coating technologies currently available to the industry. The solvent-free varnishes have been processed into fine coating powder in a multi-stage production process. This is applied to the surface to be coated by means of electrostatic spraying equipment and melted and chemically bonded at temperatures of 150 to 200 °C in the subsequent stoving process.

The success story of the environmentally friendly powder coating in industrial surface finishing began in the 1960s, has been subject to continuous innovation ever since, and continues to impress its users today with numerous advantages:

• Solvent free
• Protection and decoration
• Harder surface than liquid paint
• Almost 100% material utilization
• Easy and clean to work with
• Can be used on numerous substrates

 

TIGER Drylac^® powder coating

TIGER offers the most extensive stock program in the powder coating industry with a standard range of over 1,600 impressive colors and effects. A wide spectrum of substrates such as steel, aluminum, galvanized surfaces, timber (MDF), glass and heat-resistant plastics can be finished with the high-quality coating solutions of the TIGER Drylac^® brand: for durable, aesthetically appealing surfaces with added value.

 

We manufacture our powder coating products in shifts and in accordance with the quantities sold at our Wels site, where they are also stored and shipped throughout Europe. The Administration, Logistics and Maintenance teams are also based here. Our production sites in the USA, Canada, Mexico, China and Southeast Asia supply happy TIGER customers all around the world.

 

How powder coatings are made at TIGER

 

1 Weigh-in:
The raw materials (resins, hardeners, pigments and additives) are weighed in ratios prescribed in the master formula, which specifies the names of the raw materials and their proportions, and then are placed in the mixing bowl.

 

2 Premixing:
The next step is the premixing process, where the raw materials are blended into a homogeneous mass for the subsequent extrusion process.

 

3 Extrusion:
During the extrusion process, strong shear forces are used to melt the resin particles, which are then extruded through the exit die of the extruder in a long strand of viscous mass. The extrudate is rolled out to the desired thickness by a calender roll before cooling and then it is broken into chips in the crusher.

 

4. Grinding:
An air stream blows the chips into the grinding chamber where they are processed into a fine powder. Once the particles have passed through the air separator, they enter the cyclone separator where grains that are too fine are sifted out. The powder itself collects at the bottom due to mass inertia and is fed through an airlock into the filling station.

 

5 Filling:
After undergoing a final protective screening and being filled into appropriate containers (PE bags, boxes or Big-Bags), our TIGER Drylac^® powder coating is ready for dispatch and use.