Powder coating for fabrication shops in Utah

Most fab shops in northern Utah hit the same wall. The welding and cutting side can keep up. The paint side cannot, or does not exist, or is one guy with a spray gun and a heater in the corner. Sending work out means waiting two weeks and chasing it by phone. We are built to be the other option: a real industrial powder coating line just outside Ogden that turns work around in 2–3 business days and picks up the phone.

Some shops send us their overflow when a big job lands. Some send us everything. Overflow or full-time. Either is fine. The parts get the same process regardless of how often you send them, which is described on our powder coating page: blast, pretreat, coat, cure, check.

The finish can only be as good as the weldment under it. Powder follows the surface: it does not fill weld spatter, porosity, undercut or grinder chatter, it outlines them. If a part is going to be judged up close, grind and blend the welds before it leaves your shop. If it is a base frame bolted to a concrete floor, do not bother and do not pay us to care either. Tell us which one it is.

Hot-rolled plate and structural shapes carry mill scale, and laser-cut edges carry an oxide layer that powder does not love. Both come off in sandblasting, which is why nearly every steel weldment gets blasted before pretreatment. Cold-rolled sheet and clean aluminum can often go straight to wash and pretreat, which saves you money. We will say which applies when we quote.

Mark every surface that must stay bare: tapped holes, press-fit bores, ground studs, mating faces, weld nuts. We plug and tape to your drawing. Parts with drawings get masked to the drawing. Parts without drawings get a phone call, because guessing is how a bearing bore ends up 3 mils too small.

• Grind welds on show faces. Powder outlines what it cannot hide.
• Laser scale and mill scale come off before coating.
• Mark tapped holes, bores and ground points on the print.
• Drain and vent holes in closed tube sections.
• No oil-based markers on the part. They burn through the finish.

Job-shop work arrives as a mixed tote: forty brackets, six enclosures, two guards and a weldment someone forgot to put on the ticket. We count on intake, write it down, and call you if the count does not match your paperwork. Everything is racked and tracked by your job number, so what comes back matches what went out.

If you repeat jobs for the same end customer, we save the color, finish, mil range and masking under that job or part number. The next time it comes through, nobody has to remember anything, including us. Colors outside standard stock go through custom color matching once and then live on file. Shops whose repeat work is turning into true volume usually move onto our OEM production run setup.

Email or call with a print, a photo or just dimensions and quantity. You get a quote the same business day. For regular accounts we can price common part families once and skip the quote step on reorders. Rush is available when the schedule allows, and when it does not, we say so at the quote rather than on day four.

Shops in Ogden and Layton are close enough to drop off on the way to lunch. Salt Lake City shops tend to consolidate into one or two runs a week. Repeat accounts can get pickup and delivery on scheduled routes. Ask. The fastest way to start is the quote form.