What is a porcelain enamel coating ?

What is porcelain enamel

Porcelain enamel is an engineered boro-silicate glass layer, which may be applied in a liquid or powder form and fused on a metal substrates, like mild steel, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminum or copper.

Porcelain enamel frit

Unique properties of porcelain enamel

This inorganic coating was already used by the Egyptians for art and jewels around 1000 B.C. and may be characterized by a number of unique chemical and mechanical properties, like :

  • Color stability (during many years)
  • Corrosion resistance (even against boiling water !)
  • Easy-to-clean
  • High temperature resistance
  • Scratch resistance

Typical applications

Porcelain enamel (Also called vitreous enamel, enamel on mild steel, ceramic steel or glass on steel) has been adopted by many different industries all over the world.

It is nowadays used for providing a functional and/or decorative coating to a wide range of products, such as shown above.

Products & services

We are specialized in providing the following products & services, based on 40 years hands-on experience :

Assembly of pretreatment department

Implementing industrial enameling plants from feasibility study & concept engineering upto production start-up & staff training

Renovated hot zone of gas fired enameling furnace.

Extending the lifetime of industrial enameling furnaces by means of spare parts, maintenance, reconstruction, extension, relocation and/or conversion.

Optimizing enameling processes and reducing enameling cost

Staff training, both online & on site

More about porcelain enamel

We are passionate about the unique benefits of industrial porcelain enamel and share our accumulated knowledge of this technology via professional advice, e-learning courses and this blog.

Please feel free to contact us, if you would like to know more about our products & services for the porcelain/vitreous enameling industry.

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