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Overall costs for powder coating are calculated as follows:
Storage and in-house transports
- Transport costs (transport equipment for voluminous parts, transport surfaces, storage surfaces)
- Prematerial safety stock (coated semi-finished products)
- Coating safety stock
Investment costs, depreciation
- Production system costs (pretreatment, paint-baking and cooling zones)
- Safety appliances
- Additional labs
- Chemical and powder storage units (hazardous materials)
- Insurance
- Net-debt service
Environmental expenses
- Expenses for compliance with increasingly stringent environmental restrictions, e.g. wastewater treatment systems, powder recycling, etc.
Coating process costs
- Fuel
- Energy
- Electricity and water costs
- Rejects
- IT costs
Material costs for coating process
- Costs for coating materials (powder coatings, auxiliary and operating supplies, cleaning agents, degreasing agents, pretreatment chemicals) and disposal expenses for coatings
Other expenses
- Permits
- Administration
- Miscellaneous additional handling expenses (additional assembly costs resulting from more complex structures)