The advantages of powder coating are numerous for aluminum building products. Powder coating offers excellent finish, strong performance, and customization, while providing a more environmentally sustainable and cost- effective solution for long-term durability. These advantages are crucial to the architectural industry since environmental concerns and building construction and maintenance costs are ever-increasing. All building aluminum architectural elements such as window or doorframes, storefront systems, curtain wall structures, façade panels, railings, fencing, column covers, light fixtures, and other decorative components are enhanced with powder coating finish.
Powder coating has been popular for the architectural sector in Europe since the 1970s when environmental issues began moving to the forefront in the design and construction industries. Increasingly over the past two decades, design and construction professionals in the U.S. and other parts of the world have begun to embrace powder coating for the built environment. This is primarily due to coating technology improvements making powder coating of aluminum superior to wet paint finishing in most applications, as well as the drive for greater sustainability and cost containment in manufacturing processes.