PPG is helping baseball players across
North America smack home runs, hit
line drives and even lay down perfect
bunts. That's because Bauer Performance
Sports in Ottawa, Canada—maker of the
popular Combat
®
brand baseball bats—is
now using a PPG commercial coatings
paint system to give their bats a durable,
premium finish.
Combat bats are 100 percent composite—
made of carbon fiber and fiberglass
materials. They also require a good-looking
finish as long lasting as the bats themselves.
Until recently, the paint system that BPS
Diamond Sports was using simply wasn't
durable enough. It required too many
production steps and dissolved decals
when they were applied to the finish.
Working with local distributor Max Auto
Supply, it didn't take much convincing for
Fred St. Laurent, BPS Diamond Sports
director of development, to switch to PPG
and a recommended system comprised
of CPC CRE321 Epoxy Primer, DELFLEET
ESSENTIAL
®
ESSS Basecoat and DELFLEET
®
Evolution F3921 Clearcoat.
The benefits were immediate. The previous
12-step production process was reduced to
six, productivity increased, and capacity has
almost tripled. Players love the bats and
they're in great demand in the United States
and Canada. BPS Diamond Sports weekly
production is quickly approaching 2,000 bats,
making the handsome bats with a PPG finish
a resounding hit.
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FINISH
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