Purchase a coating machine or use coating services?

Once the decision is met that coating is necessary, the next question arises: Buy a coating machine and build your own coating area, or make use of coating services?

With your own coating area, changes can be converted quickly, transport doesn’t cost you time or money and you are independent of supply shortfalls. It’s cheaper, too, if your machine is working to capacity.

But that’s the problem: Investment cost and risk are high. You need room to coat and dry the boards, and existing personnel must be trained well to achieve an appropriate coating result. In case of doubt, new staff must be taken on, this leads too high investments at the beginning.

These investments are only profitable if a high number of boards has to be coated over years. If demand stops, your investment won’t pay.

That’s the advantage of coating service: You can react flexibly and quickly to changing demand, costs rise and fall linear to the amount. That gives you security in planning and crisis.

Coating service companies can react fast to short changes of demand with an experience of many years and special technical know-how. You won’t have to worry about the procedure, lacquer characteristics etc..

The following procedure is well-tried and reliable: At first a coating service company is assigned. If the numbers of items should rise in time and remain on a constant high level, an own coating area is established.

More information about coating service at:

www.maurer-thoma.de

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