High Quality Finishing

American Tin Ceilings provides a variety of superior quality finishes not offered by other manufacturers. Our authentic tin ceiling panels are finished using an industrial powder coating process. We have developed our own custom formulated colors and antiquing methods using high-end powders from industry leaders like Dupont, Tiger DryLac and TCI. This process creates a beautiful, robust finish that is very durable and provides superior quality, hence producing the most attractive tin ceiling panels in the entire tin ceiling industry! To our knowledge, we are the only tin ceiling company in the world to utilize such a high-end finishing process.

Powder coat finished tin ceiling panels from The American Tin Ceiling Co. - #1 Manufacturer of authentic Tin Ceilings, cornice, backsplash, molding, wall decor and accessories.
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Powder Coating
Powder coating is an advanced method of applying a decorative and protective finish to a wide range of materials and products that are used by both industries and consumers. It's tough. It looks great. And it lasts a long, long time. Powder coating is a superior finish that's found on hundreds of products you come in contact with each day. It makes products durable, attractive, and scratch-resistant, too.

Powder coating is a process by which finely ground particles of pigment and polyester resin are electrostatically charged and sprayed onto metal. The items to be coated are electrically grounded, so that the charged powder adheres to their surface. The items being coated are hung on a conveyer line and run through an automatic powder coating booth, where guns are used to spray the powder onto the items. The electrostatic current ensures that the product surface is evenly coated with powder. The conveyer then runs the coated panels through a large, high temperature radiant oven which cures the coating. Temperatures used to cure the items typically are between 400 and 450 degrees. Heating the items makes the pigments melt, gel, and then cure to form a very durable finish. The quality of the finished product has the ability to outlast and outperform painted parts. It also exceeds paint in resisting acids, solvents, impact, abrasions and heat.

The result is an attractive, durable, high-quality finish. The powder coating process itself offers another advantage -- it is environmentally friendly...virtually pollution-free!

Powder coating is the fastest-growing finishing technology in North America, representing over 10% of all industrial finishing applications. It is one of the most economical, longest-lasting, and most color-durable quality finishes available. Powder coated surfaces are more resistant to chipping, scratching, fading, and wearing than other finishes. And colors stay bright and vibrant longer.
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Why are Tin Ceilings so popular today?

Tin Ceilings remind us of a different time in our country's history. Tin Ceilings stir memories of gentler days when elegance and beauty reigned. A slower paced era where style and grace were the watchwords in home decor. Old time victorian homes, formal parlors, farmhouses with wood burning stoves and other historic architecture we've seen in literature and film or remember from our childhood.

It is said that "Everything Old Becomes New Again". It reinvents itself and becomes fashionable again, perhaps because it was so fashionable in the first place. Fashion goes in and out of style as modern ideas are introduced to the market. But the popular styling's of the past always cycle back into modern contemporary culture. The Tin Ceiling exemplifies this concept.