What is Acrylic Paint? Acrylic paint is a versatile, water-based coating widely used across industries including automotive, aerospace, construction, and fine art. Known for durability, flexibility, and vibrant color retention, acrylic paint provides reliable protection and aesthetic finishes. Ensuring precise particle size distribution of acrylic pigments is crucial for uniform coverage, consistency in color, texture, and smooth application.
Accurate particle sizing is vital to maintaining consistency, color uniformity, and avoiding imperfections in finished surfaces. Oversized particles can cause defects, uneven color dispersion, and reduced visual appeal. Conversely, excessively fine particles can lead to viscosity issues and poor coating performance. Traditional sieving methods face challenges with acrylic paints due to their viscous, sticky nature, often causing screen blinding, clogging, and inefficient processing.
Elcan Industries has extensive experience handling complex viscous materials such as acrylic paints. Our specialized high-energy Hi-Sifter screening system efficiently separates pigments and paint additives, overcoming challenges like screen mesh blinding and agglomeration through strong vertical energy. The Hi-Sifter can separate these materials both wet & dry down to very fine sizes. This method maintains throughput and precise particle sizing down to 25 microns or finer, critical for premium-quality finishes. For challenging materials or finer separations, our Allgaier tumbler screener utilizes a unique air-knife system, which simultaneously cleans and vacuums the powder through the screen, achieving consistent particle distributions down to 44 microns without clogging or interruptions. Our state-of-the-art particle processing facility offers manufacturers the flexibility to conduct trials and optimize acrylic paint formulations.
