Industrial Paint Booths and Spray Cabins
Built to the part size and throughput of your line, not sold from a fixed catalogue.
Finishing Equipment
Booths built around your line
HA-TEC supplies dry-filter, water-wash and powder coating booths for industrial finishing lines across Europe. Every booth is delivered CE-marked to EN 16985, with ATEX zoning documentation where solvent-based coatings are used, and commissioned on site by our own engineers from Sindelfingen.
We are an automation integrator first. A booth from us arrives ready to be automated later: robot-compatible geometry, prepared cable and media routing, and a control architecture that accepts a manipulator or vision system without rebuilding the enclosure.
What We Supply
Booth types
Dry-filter wet paint booths
Overspray is captured in replaceable cardboard or fibre filter media. The lowest-cost option to buy and install, suited to low and medium output or shops running frequent colour changes on small batches.
Water-wash paint booths
Overspray is washed out of the air by a continuous water curtain and collected as sludge. Higher capital cost and a water treatment obligation, but no filter consumables and stable capture at high, continuous throughput.
Powder coating booths
Cyclone or cartridge recovery returns unused powder to the feed system. Quick-change cartridge booths are built around fast colour change, while fixed booths suit long single-colour runs.
Curing and drying ovens
Gas or electric convection ovens matched to the booth throughput, holding the 160 to 220 °C range that powder curing requires. Supplied as batch cabins or as pass-through tunnels integrated with the conveyor.
Pretreatment lines
Spray tunnels and dip tanks for degreasing, phosphating and passivation. Coating adhesion failures usually originate here rather than in the booth, so pretreatment is specified together with the booth.
Conveyor systems
Overhead monorail, power-and-free and floor conveyors sized to part weight and cycle time, tying pretreatment, booth and oven into one line.
EU Market
Compliance carried as part of the supply
A booth can be built outside the EU and still be placed on the EU market, but the documentation has to be right before it ships, not after it arrives.
- —EN 16985, spray booths for organic coating materials. Governs air velocity, ventilation interlocks, fire protection and cleaning access. Supersedes EN 12215 and EN 13355.
- —Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, with Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applying from 20 January 2027. Booths ordered now are documented against the incoming Regulation.
- —ATEX 2014/34/EU for equipment inside the hazardous zone and 1999/92/EC for the workplace zoning assessment, with the zone classification drawing supplied with the machine.
- —31. BImSchV and TA Luft, the VOC emission limits for solvent-using installations in Germany, which determine whether abatement is required for your solvent load.
- —EN ISO 12100 risk assessment, CE marking, Declaration of Conformity and a German-language operating manual.
Why HA-TEC
Why source through us
German contracting entity
HA-TEC System GmbH, Sindelfingen, HRB 757485. Contract, warranty, invoicing and liability sit with a German company under German law. No import handling and no foreign-entity procurement approval.
Our own commissioning engineers
Installation and start-up are carried out by HA-TEC personnel, not subcontracted to a third party.
Automation upgrade path
We integrate KUKA, FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa and Kawasaki robots into paint shop cells. A manual booth bought from us can be converted to a robot cell later without replacing the enclosure, which is not true of most catalogue booths.
Vision and inspection
AI-based defect detection, sealant inspection and part detection can be added to the same line.
Industries
Where our booths run
Automotive and tier-1 suppliers, agricultural and construction machinery, general metal fabrication, steel furniture and architectural profiles, white goods, plastics and composites.
Looking for the application side instead? Painting systems and robotic application
From Our Installations
Equipment we have supplied
Dry-filter booth
Cardboard paint-stop filters across the full rear wall, with the extraction plenum behind them and lighting set into the ceiling. Filter media is the running cost in this configuration, so the bank is sized against the paint volume rather than against the booth opening.
Panel construction and air supply
Galvanised panel construction, with the supply air duct running the length of the ceiling and grating across the extraction floor. This is the shell a robot cell is later built into, so internal clearances are fixed at the design stage rather than discovered on site.
Control cabinet
Circuit protection, contactors and solid-state relays for the heating circuits, with phase indication on the door. The panel is laid out with spare capacity so a manipulator or a vision system can be added later without replacing it.
Next Step
Request a quote
Send us the following and we will come back with a configuration and a price:
- —Largest and smallest part dimensions and weight
- —Parts per hour or per shift
- —Coating type: solvent-based, water-based or powder
- —Number of colours and colour change frequency
- —Available floor area and building height
- —Manual, reciprocator or robot application
- —Existing pretreatment and oven, if any
- —Site country and target commissioning date
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Dry filter or water-wash, which do I need?
Dry filter suits lower paint consumption and frequent colour changes, where replacing filter media stays an acceptable running cost. Water-wash suits continuous production on one colour family, where there are no filter consumables at all. The break-even is the cost of filter media against the cost of water treatment, so we calculate it against your actual paint consumption.
Do your booths meet EN 16985?
Yes. Every booth is delivered CE-marked with a Declaration of Conformity, an EN ISO 12100 risk assessment, ATEX zone classification and a German-language operating manual.
Powder or wet paint for my parts?
Powder for uncomplicated steel or aluminium geometries that tolerate curing at 160 to 220 °C, with unused powder recovered and returned to the feed system. Wet paint for heat-sensitive substrates, complex hidden surfaces, or where a specific finish or colour match is specified.
Can an existing booth be retrofitted with robots?
Often, yes. It depends on internal clearance, ATEX zoning and the existing ventilation capacity. We survey the booth and report on feasibility before quoting.
We are looking forward to assist you!
Would you like to discuss a new project, request a consultation, or learn more about our automation solutions? Just contact us!
HA-TEC System GmbH
Erika-Naumann-Straße 4
71063 Sindelfingen
Germany