Custom Liquid Coating Manufacturer
Paint, Process, and Performance to meet your requirements. Optimize line speed, transfer efficiency, dry time, and durability.
Identify Your Needs
Improve throughput, performance, and economics
Consult Our Experts
We will help you define the project
Formulation
The formula must satisfy many stakeholders
Production
The paint must fit with your paint line
Quality Control
Quality checks throughout
Industrial Product Finishes
Carbit’s industrial coatings are engineered for speed, efficiency, and performance. With short lead times, low-VOC formulations, fast color changes, and reduced film requirements, our finishes help manufacturers improve productivity while lowering capital investment and operating costs. Backed by over 100 years of expertise, Carbit delivers durable, cost-effective coating solutions that meet the toughest industry demands.
Peelable Coatings
Carbit's peelable coatings deliver temporary protection, shielding surfaces from damage while capturing overspray. Easy to apply and simple to remove, they provide a clean, efficient solution for safeguarding products and workspaces.
Architectural Glass Coatings
Carbit offers water and solvent-based coatings to decorate flat and container glass with vibrant, color-matched back coats, UV primers, and clears. Durable opaque and transparent finishes apply with ease, transforming glass surfaces without the need for special primers.
Industries Served
Trusted Coatings Across Every Industry
Carbit delivers durable water and solvent-based coatings for various industries, engineered for corrosion protection, efficiency, and lasting performance.
Carbit Supplies and Serves Industrial Paint Lines:
- Custom Coatings: Specifications, design, formulation, and manufacturing
- Process Improvement: Consulting for paint lines
- Paint Line Support: Audits and painter training
- Lab Services: Testing and reporting, plus surface prep, cleaners, and rust inhibitors
- Technical Field Reps: Training, audits, lab coordination
- Lab Team: Testing, custom formulations, QC, and color matching
- Customer Service & Production: On-time delivery
- Managers & Teams: Continuous improvement and relationship development
Building Relationships Since 1925
We strive to:
- Keep your coating line supplied and running smoothly
- Provide honest communication
- Provide competitive value
- Have fun while helping our customers grow
FAQs
Choosing the right industrial coating solution often depends on your application, substrate, production process, and performance requirements. Our FAQs provide helpful insights into Carbit’s coatings, capabilities, and approach to supporting manufacturers across a wide range of industries. If you don't find the answer you're looking for, fill out our form or contact one of our coating specialists at (312) 280-2300.
We're happy to discuss your application, coating requirements, production environment, and performance goals to help you identify the right solution for your project.
An OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) coating is a coating applied during the manufacturing process to protect or finish a product before it reaches the customer. OEM coatings are typically formulated around specific resin chemistries such as acrylics, alkyds, epoxies, or polyurethanes.
Even coatings with similar names can perform very differently, so reviewing the product data sheet (PDS) helps compare properties like solids content, dry time, VOC levels, and film thickness.
A custom coating is formulated to provide application and performance properties not available in standard off-the-shelf coatings. This may include adjusting viscosity, dry time, durability, or other characteristics to meet a specific application requirement.
Custom coatings are developed by modifying formulas and then testing them to ensure that they meet the customer's specification. Custom coatings should not be confused with custom color matches.
A custom coating may be beneficial when standard coatings do not meet your application or performance requirements.
Common reasons include needing unique performance properties, requiring a specialized coating for a specific process, or producing smaller production volumes where a standard product is not suitable.
Minimum order quantities depend on the manufacturer’s production processes and equipment. For instance, some products may require media mills that require a minimum volume to work properly.
Many specialty coating manufacturers can produce custom coatings in relatively small batches, with smaller samples often provided for testing before full production.
Development time depends on the complexity of the required performance characteristics.
Minor modifications to an existing coating may take 2–3 weeks, while adding new performance features or developing a significantly different formulation may take several weeks to a few months, including testing and validation.