At this year’s European Coatings Show (ECS, 25-27 March 2025, Nuremberg, Germany), Coperion will exhibit for the first time together with newly integrated Coperion family members, Baker Perkins and Kemutec. The merger of these companies has resulted in a technology provider with a multifaceted product portfolio encompassing the entire production process for high-quality powder coatings. From ingredient supply, weighing, mixing and feeding to extrusion, cooling, grinding and sifting, Coperion, Baker Perkins and Kemutec deliver a full range of proven components. Together they are now in a position to also realize fully integrated powder coating production lines from a single source.
At booth 4-363, a Kemutec PPS Air Classifier Mill will be on display as a representative of the entire product line. It is ideally suited for extremely fine as well as heat-sensitive powders, and it offers excellent cleanability.
Broad product palette to meet every challenge
Coperion, Baker Perkins and Kemutec product lines all encompass a common vision: They are based upon innovative technologies that offer powder coating producers a decisive competitive advantage. For example, the combined range of feeders stand out with their high accuracy as well as very good accessibility and easy cleanability.
The selection of twin screw extruders has also been markedly expanded via this merger: Coperion offers ZSK twin screw extruders with closed process sections in individual lengths while Baker Perkins provides extruders with clam shell process sections.
All twin screw extruders offer high specific torque, making it possible to process ingredients reliably and very gently to produce powder coatings of very high quality at high throughputs. The extruder portfolio covers everything from small laboratory extruders to big production lines.
PPS Air Classifier Mill in easy-clean design for rapid recipe changes
The PPS Air Classifier Mill that will be on display is suitable for milling ultra-fine as well as heat-sensitive powders. Its unique easy-clean design provides complete, unrivalled access to the mill’s internals and grinding media. Cleaning time and effort are extremely low, allowing for quick recipe changes without impacting the mill’s high operational efficiency.
“With the merger of Coperion, Baker Perkins, and Kemutec, we are now able to provide our customers with a wide range of versatile individual components as well as complete systems. All of our technologies for powder coating production are united by the high and constant product quality they achieve. Before customers make an investment, they can see for themselves the first-class results that our products and systems deliver at any one of our Test Centers worldwide.”
Peter von Hoffmann, General Manager of the Business Unit Compounding Machines Engineering Plastics and Special Applications at Coperion.