Adcas was founded in 1997 to manufacture performance timber doors for the construction industry. Their management team has a combined industry experience of over 120 years enabling them to provide creative solutions.
From their production facility in Hartlepool, they manufacture a wide range of performance doors all made to order to suit specific requirements.
As a fire door manufacturer third party certifcation is very important and something they take very seriously. Adcas are third party certified by bmtrada in all three key areas.
The lacquer line will be installed in March 2023 by the resident UK Cefla engineers.
The machines can be used for base and top-coat finishing with varying gloss levels, the application method is simple, doors are placed on the in-feed table, driven into the roller coater where an even measured coat of the UV lacquer is applied then instantly dried (cured), the door can then be immediately handled, even packed, and stacked.
Smartcoater Evo is designed for roller coating panels and flat furniture doors. It is available in a range of configurations: with fixed or self-levelling floating head, with automatic longitudinal and transverse adjustment, ideal for working with panels that are not perfectly calibrated. The applicator rollers and dosing assembly can be fitted with different types of cleaning blades to allow the use of various coatings. Lastly, the Smartcoater Evo control board is equipped with a touch screen for management of all machine parameters.
The equipment payback is very fast, as past CEFLA customers have found. This is primarily because the amount of lacquer used in the CEFLA roller coating system is, on average, one tenth of the amount used by the spraying method. Although UV lacquer is typically twice the price of PU based lacquer, this still means the cost of UV is one fifth of the price of PU.
There are many other benefits too, but looking at the lacquer costings, according to CEFLA, when compared with a solvent-based PU lacquer, the UV lacquer costings make good commercial sense – see box below.
