Christoph Angeli, Customer Service More than just organic-coated steel strip voestalpine Steel Division www.voestalpine.com/colofer

Organic-coated steel strip MORE THAN JUST ORGANIC-COATED STEEL STRIP Welcome home! With colofer® HOME, one of the most innovative materials of voestalpine comes right into your own home. A material that offers individual solutions and sets no limits to new creative design in the field of household appliances. colofer® offers a material optimized for household appliance manufacturers, impresses with its perfect processability and convinces with maximum quality and performance along the entire value chain. Continual research and further development in collaboration with leading manufacturers, inline...

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SEE FOR YOURSELF WHAT colofer® CAN DO! Discover the possibilities of colofer®. colofer® offers versatile application possibilities. Just like the wishes of your customers. And you can effortlessly meet individual material demands and requirements while providing modern household appliances of the highest quality. colofer® HOME, the organic-pre-coated steel strip for the household-appliance industry, optimally meets individualized customer requirements with perfect surface properties. colofer® HOME is the perfect solution for unique products and highest quality when it comes to washing, refrigerating,...

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colofer® HOME CLASSIC Classical design in white. In the areas of washing, refrigerating, drying or cooking, colofer® HOME CLASSIC is convincing in every application with continuously high product quality and can be adapted precisely to individual customer requirements in shades of white, degrees of gloss and many other details. You can choose between smooth and structured surfaces. colofer® HOME COLOR Cool design shows its colors. Individuality through subtle color accents! colofer® HOME COLOR offers you an extremely wide range of standard and metallic colors that can be used to differentiate yourself...

colofer® HOME ILLUSION Phantasy knows no bounds. Impressively genuine! A wide variety of different surfaces are made impressively true to life by colofer® HOME ILLUSION, for example stainless steel, brushed aluminum or carbon. At the same time, the product is highly flexible in function and boasts the highest levels of material quality. colofer® HOME ILLUSION is available in different looks, including stainless steel, aluminum, wood or carbon: colofer® IS AVAILABLE WITH THE FOLLOWING SUBSTRATES: » Cold-rolled steel strip (upon request) » Hot-dip galvanized steel strip » Electrogalvanized steel...

Wide range of products Specialized engineers More than just CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS Long years of experience Innovative products MORE THAN JUST CUSTOMER SOLUTIONS colofer® HOME does not simply stand for the purchase of pre-painted material for applications in the household appliance industr y. colofer ® HOME stands for a longstanding and reliable partner who, far away from standard products, meets the requirements of customers in the best possible way. It is just as much the right product for customers who have never used precoated material before or for those who have been working in a development...

Pre-treatment Protective metallic coating Substrate Protective bottom-side coating OVERVIEW OF PRODUCT PROPERTIES Properties requirement Testing standard/inspection Typical values Coating thickness EN 13523-1 > 21 pm Colors EN 13523-3 Upon reqUest Surface appearance Gloss (60°) Adhesion (cross cut) Adhesion after bending Crack formation after bending Scratch resistance upon request, smooth or structured upon request 0 < 0.5 T 1) < 2 T 1) > 15 N Resistance to solvents Resistance to rapid deformation (Impact test) Corrosion resistance » Salt spray test Test duration: 240 h No...

STATE-OF-THE-ART COIL COATING Thanks to automated processes and strict quality controls on one of the most modern and environmentally friendly coil coating lines in Europe, the high quality of colofer® remains 100% the same. Combined with a wide variety of paint systems, the result is a large selection of designs with unique properties in terms of durability and processability. Tested quality made in Austria Consistently high-quality colofer® products meet your specifications 100%. The more extreme the conditions, the more it shows that our aspiration to provide the best quality pays off. On...

colofer® COILSPLITTING colofer® coilsplitting: up to three coatings per coil Small batches are available from five tons and above, and thanks to colofer® coil splitting, you can subdivide a coil in up to three different coatings instead of having to order a coil in one special color. This makes it possible to optimally coordinate quantities and requirements, thus reducing left-over material and costs. STANDARD WHITE STANDARD BLUE SPECIAL GREEN You want to produce only a small series of refrigerators in a special green? Steel strip You don’t have to order an entire 32-ton coil in your special...

colofer® VS. POWDERCOATING? COST SAVINGS Using pre-painted steel strip not only increases the quality of your products, but also reduces your costs! Analyses have shown a savings potential of up to 30%. Costs Costs for substrate Costs colofer Costs powder coating Storage and transport Coating costs [%] THE TOTAL COSTS OF POST-PAINTING RESULT FROM: Storage and transport Internal transport costs (transport equipment for bulky parts, transport areas, storage areas), pre-material safety stock (painted semi-finished parts), paint safety stock Investment, depreciation Plant costs (pretreatment, coating,...

QUALITY ADVANTAGES 100% high-quality material is produced consistently, thanks to automated processes and the strictest quality controls on one of the most modern and environmentally friendly coil coating lines in Europe. Many different high-tech coating systems are combined to create a wide variety of different designs (degrees of gloss, surfaces and special innovative products such as stainless steel appearance or silver color tones) with unique properties with respect to layer thickness, resistance and process­ ability. Availability of various designs MORE THAN JUST Flexibly meeting ever changing...