BY TIM PENNINGTON EDITOR
Sundial Powder Coatings
becomes expert in nail polish
and alcohol bottle coatings.
Glass and
Bottles Shine
with Powder
Coatings
Sundial developed a patented two-coat process
that eliminates all UV light bands—UVA/UVB and
UVC wavelengths—from penetrating the coating
and damaging the product inside.
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MARCH 2017 — PFonline.com
Who would have guessed that Shivie Dhillon
knew so much about fingernail polish?
Judging from the thousands of bottles going
through his shop each day, the president of
Sundial Powder Coatings in Los Angeles has
become an expert on the fashion trend.
Sundial Powder Coatings is a well-respected
shop with a 30-year history. The company
includes a seven-stage stainless steel deion-
ized water pretreatment system and Six Sigma
quality control methods. The company's primary
customers are for auto parts, car bodies and car
cages, door frames and home appliances.
As an offshoot to his Sundial shop, Dhillon started
a new division—Bottle Coatings Inc.—after being
asked by several manufacturers to coat glass and
cosmetic containers for their products to help with
ultraviolet light protection. He started a website,
bottlecoatings.com , to help garner more of that market
segment.
"Light has an effect on the contents of some
cosmetics, such as fingernail polish," he says. "They
needed UV protection so the polish wouldn't begin
curing inside the bottle. Powder coating is one solution to
keep out UV."
The demand was straightforward: UV light is not a
friend of fingernail polish. If the product sitting on store
shelves wasn't protected from UV light, it would start
to cure before being sold. The same could be said about
alcohol and spirit
bottles that Sundial
is coating now; the
UV light harms the
liquid and causes it to
lose its original taste
and smell.
UV Protection
Dhillon says that
blocking UV wave-
lengths is the only
way a merchandiser
can protect their
product. Two methods
they used in the past
were absorption or
converting the UV
light, but he says both
of those methods only
work for a limited time.
"The longer the UV
inhibitor is exposed to the
UV wavelengths, the less
effective it becomes, which
Sundial has also exploded into the
fragrance and bottled spirits sector,
including wine and liquors that also
need to be protected from UV rays.
POWDER COATING