Automotive Industries were on sale just after the lockdown and pandemic season. All the sales lost and production wasted were reunited to bring in more and more profits to clear out the batched released in units and bring projects to earn more and balance out the loss of their employees. This led to exponential sales in the automotive sector. When in high sales run, the industries never compromise on the quality as this is the only factor that can help them in understanding out in the line from others and attract more and more customers. When we talk about cars, aesthetics plays an important role in the colour of the vehicles. In this blog, we bring you experts from renowned automotive companies to help you in understanding how one can check the quality of coating using a salt spray chamber and meet the best colour appearance along with longevity.

Which test can help in checking the coating quality and how to conduct the same?

Coating of any product like cars or motorbikes is often affected by its surrounding environment and the agents it gets exposed to. As vehicles are always to be used in the outside conditions and merely parked in a closed vicinity they are easily exposed to factors like humidity, rain, dust, sunlight etc. all these together can affect a coating application in many ways but the major effect has is the corrosion.

Corrosion occurs when water molecules react with the molecules of the coating applied and slowly and gradually develop cracks in them opening their path to the metal surface beneath the same. This way when it reaches the material it oxides the iron and causes corrosion inside the surface failing its functions and of course disturbing its appearance.

The most common quality test done to check how a coating will react in high humid and salt fog environment that is responsible for corrosion, an accelerated corrosion test is conducted. The tests create artificial corrosion causing an atmosphere within a closed chamber to test the effect of the same on a sample of coating applied to a material. The environment is applied to the sample in an accelerated form so that results of years of exposure to a corrosive agents can be learnt in a few hours of test cycles.

Pacorr, a leading manufacturer of corrosion chamber brings a range of basic to the most advanced salt spray testers equipped with the latest features, apt for any industry and designed as per international testing standards.