A coating shop has three ways to get a booth, an oven or a line: buy new equipment engineered to the parts, buy a used line and adapt to it, or have a local workshop weld a booth and buy an oven separately. Each is the right answer in some situations. This page lists the criteria we would use ourselves, so you can decide before you ask us for a quote.
Parts, throughput or compliance matter: a part family that will not change soon, a line speed you have to hold, a customer audit, an EU permit or an import conformity file.
Highest purchase price; known operating cost; warranty of one year on the equipment.
Four to six weeks for a booth or box oven, eight to twelve weeks for a line, plus installation.
A line whose part envelope, line speed and documentation match yours exactly, from a seller who can show the drawings, the electrical scheme and the conformity file.
Lowest purchase price; unknown insulation, filter and burner condition; dismantling, transport and reinstallation on top; no warranty.
Days to buy, weeks to months to re-engineer; a line without documentation cannot be CE-marked again without a new technical file.
A temporary booth for occasional work, where extraction, ATEX components and filtration standards are not required by the permit or the customer.
Low booth price; oven price separate; integration, ducting and controls on your side.
Short, until the first problem: uneven cure, powder in the shop, a permit inspection.
| Criterion | New, engineered | Used line | Local fabrication |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fit to your largest part | Engineered | Only if the envelope matches | Only for the booth |
| Extraction and filtration design | Calculated and documented | Unknown | Usually none |
| Standards and CE file | EN 16985, EN 1539, EN 50177, CE Declaration | Only if the original file exists and nothing changed | None |
| Import conformity (Egypt CoC, Morocco PortNet) | Documents supplied with the shipment | Seller's documents, if any | Not applicable |
| Energy per part | Sized insulation, heating and airflow | As built, often oversized or leaky | Depends on the bought oven |
| Spare parts | Listed in the proposal | Sourced part by part | Mixed |
| Warranty | One year | None | Booth: none; oven: supplier's |
| Resale | Documented line resells | As bought | Low |
We build new equipment, so read the table with that in mind. Two of the lines we have installed started as used equipment the customer had bought; both needed new insulation, new filters and a new electrical panel before they ran to specification. If you are considering a used line, send us its drawings and photographs and we will tell you what it would take.
Send photographs of your parts and of the used line if there is one. We say which route we would take in your place.