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N-mail: Coating Systems Information and Applications from Nutro Inc. and Venjakob 3-Axis Gun Movers Compete with Robots on Cost and Performance When you think of a gun mover, do you envision a simple up-and-down oscillator? Think again. Nutro gun movers are vying with 6-axis robots for jobs that require contouring and intricate path profiles. Multi-axis servo driven reciprocators can often provide advantages that an off-the-shelf robot may not. First, the gun mover can be customized for the product size and shape so that coverage is optimized. Nutro gun movers also have high payload capacity ideal for carrying multiple applicators, hoses and other equipment. IN THIS ISSUE: • Muti-Axis Gun Movers Compete with Robots • Ven-Ice, Venjakob’s Coolest Pretreatment Technology • Nutro and EIT Team up on Real-Time UV Monitoring • Plate & Steel Lines Rely on Nutro Designs Touch-screen interfaces allow operators with limited training to have enormous control over the paint process. Motion control can be linked to fluid delivery and spray controls so that the entire application process can be programmed as a seamless recipe for each part. (continued on page four) Ven-Clean Ice for Dry, Dust-Free and Clean Parts Pretreatment Part cleaning is often the dirtiest, most time consuming aspect of paint finishing. When pretreatment involves applying caustic and harmful cleaners, this can pose disposal problems and additional waste treatment cost. • Magni and Nutro Pursue the Brake Rotor Market • Robots in the Lab help Quantify Savings N-mail: is a publication of Nutro Inc. which is solely responsible for its contents. To receive a subscription to N-mail: contact Erin Thinschmidt at: Nutro, Inc. 11515 Alameda Drive Strongsville, Ohio 44149 Phone: 440-572-3800 Multi-axis reciprocators can provide a more cost-efficient but technically sound alternative to installing paint robots. A Ven Clean Ice UV frozen CO2 cleaning system produces dry, dust-free clean parts. “Ven Clean Ice is an environmental dream. It solves problems of part cleaning with no harmful waste” So imagine cleaning parts quickly and efficiently with a blast of frozen gas that leaves no residue behind. With Ven Clean Ice, Venjakob uses liquid carbon dioxide atomized with compressed air to create a CO2 “snow” that impinges on soils, making them brittle and cause dirt to literally fall off the part leaving a clean, dry, dust-free surface in its place. The Ven-Clean Ice process is an environmentally friendly cleaning solution since only harmless carbon dioxide is used.

EIT & Nutro Team Up for UV Measurement While most plants would never dream of running a curing oven without tracking the oven temperature, nearly every UV curing system goes unmonitored. Now imagine being at lunch and receiving a text message that your UV lamp may be on the fritz. Nutro has teamed up with UV Measurement leader EIT LLC, the makers of the industry standard Power-Puck and Power-Map loggers to offer powerful, cost-effective realtime process monitoring of UV lines. Nutro has designed a computer interface that allows for continuous monitoring of all critical parameters. Alarms...

Steel Plate and Shape Lines rely on Nutro Technology for Applying Weldable Primer For those who weld massive pieces of steel plate, I-beams and other shapes into barges, ships and tankers, outdoor storage means a constant battle with rust. And quick forming rust makes welding more difficult and more prone to defects. Several major paint suppliers have developed specialized weldable primers for providing corrosion protection to steel that must be stored outdoors. These coatings are often zincrich, sacrificial coatings designed to fight red rust by forming more benign oxides. This “smart...

3-Axis Gun Movers Compete with Robots on Cost and Performance (continued) The integration of motion control, fluid delivery and spray parameters makes the Nutro smart reciprocator system as powerful as many of the most advance robotics software packages, and without the need to learn a new programming language. while robots are used for areas more difficult to reach. All of this flexibility reinforces the Nutro credo that one-size-doesn’tfit-all, and that for high volume manufacturers, machinery that is optimized for their task is the most cost efficient solution. Nutro reciprocators aren’t...