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Thermal Spray Industry and Government

Everyone knows that governmental policies and regulations in every country can affect the businesses that operate there. Beginning with textiles, agriculture, manufactured goods and trading companies to high technology firms get affected in one way or the other by what the ruling bodies do. The thermal spray coatings industry is no different. After all, the thermal spray industry is a service oriented function, whereby parts that go into various applications like power generation, transportation, machine building and infrastructure maintenance get coated with various materials in order to either extend the life or simply perform efficiently. One might wonder as to how the posture of the governmental organizations affect such a service oriented industry.

The biggest manner in which the government of any country can affect the thermal spray industry is by altering the environmental regulations. As one may already know, particulate emissions from thermal spray coating companies have long been a subject of widespread discussions. Beginning with basic blower driven paint spray booths some companies have switched to water wash spray booths, where there is a water curtain that traps the exhaust particulate matter. These water wash booths have been used for a while by a lot of companies. The best way is by cartridge filtering and several state of the art cartridge filter spray booths are available, but they come at a significant price. If the government were to mandate the use of these cartridge systems, many of the thermal spray shops may simply not be able to afford the upgrade and may close up shop. This is not a good scene for the smaller thermal spray operators but in turn that means more work will get funneled to the larger thermal spray companies. As fewer players remain in the marketplace, the price that the end customer pays for the coating service will definitely go up. Hence by simply altering the standards for the emission requirements, governments of all countries will definitely affect the thermal spray coatings businesses that operate there.

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Christian Riser @ Esani (Firm Hold spray and Flat Iron)