Schuburst® – Burst Fire Curing Systems

Full Cure in 10 Seconds!

Alongside their successful range of catalytic gas infra red drying systems (Schubox® and Kit-Cat®), spray booths and automatic application machines, Schuberts can now offer their new Schuburst® electric medium wave IR system to fully cure water-based paints and lacquers in as little as 10 seconds for each process (pre and post heating).
This drying technology is suited for the wood, metal and glass industries.

This means either much faster line speeds or much smaller foot print tunnels. Typically a mouldings line running at 25metres/minute the Schuburst preheat straight line tunnel is just 3.0m long. On high speed lines the tunnels can either be longitudinal or cross transfer type ovens.
On a 1300mm wide spray line retrofit, running at 6m/min the Schuburst® pre-heat and post heat tunnels are just 1.0m long, with the addition of a short cooling section after the post heat.
Can be installed into automatic, vacuum coating, spray, roller and curtain coating lines.

Suitable for pre-heating and/or post-heating of:-

  • MDF mouldings/panels
  • Solid wood mouldings/panels
  • Glass sheets
  • Steel sheeting

Advantages of the Schuburst® Technology

  • Curing times on water-based paints and lacquers are greatly reduced so output capacity is boosted.
  • Short/medium wave infrared technology.
  • Burst fired 10 cycles per second and will match the specific absorption rate of the substrate or coating.
  • Existing finishing lines can be easily retro fitted with the technology.
  • The response time of the Schuburst® system is much faster by comparison to hot air systems.
  • The radiant transfer of energy heats the substrate and then the coating directly after application without the need to warm up large volumes of air.
  • Being a modular system, different heat zones can be activated and has full adjustment from 0%-100% output to suit different coatings and substrates.
  • On automatic horizontal or vertical systems, the heaters can be automatically controlled through photoelectric cells on the infeed and outfeed of the heating zones.
  • The system can be turned to standby to save energy.
  • The process will not produce any gaseous by products or contamination to surface coating.

As well as installing and commissioning new turnkey finishing lines we are able to offer custom built horizontal/flat burst fire drying tunnels.

It is often the limitations of traditional methods (hot air, electric IR etc..) that control the production speed of the line.
By utilizing our burst fire tunnel systems, production speed and quality of finish can be greatly improved upon.
Our standard horizontal tunnel working width is 1300mm but can go up to 2800mm for the glass industries for example.