How Paint Booth Designs Function for Different Industries

Depending on your industry, the type of paint booth you choose is crucial to ensuring quality, safety standards, and production efficiency. Open face, cross-draft, and downdraft paint booths each play a specific role based on the types of products and finishing requirements for your applications. Here is an overview of each booth type and how it is used across industries. 

Open Face Paint Booths
Open face paint booths are a cost-effective, flexible solution for smaller projects or when you need frequent access to load and unload parts. These are designed with three walls, an open front, and an exhaust system in the back. These are most often used in the small parts, metal fabrication, and general manufacturing industries. Furniture makers use them for staining or painting cabinets and doors, while metal fabricators use them for coating brackets and frames. These booths are small so they can fit into facilities easily and provide containment for paint and spray environments. 

Cross-draft Paint Booths
Cross-draft paint booths are a full enclosure solution used commonly in the automotive and industrial finishing industries. They provide a horizontal airflow from the front of the booth with the exhaust in the back of the booth to provide overspray control and minimize contamination. Cross-draft booths are used in body shops for refinishing vehicles, while industrial manufacturers use them for appliances and electronics. These booths can also be used for spraying mid-sized agricultural or recreational vehicles. Cross-draft booths are another cost-effective solution for production lines that require an enclosed finishing space. 

Downdraft Paint Booths 
Downdraft paint booths provide top-quality finishing and are commonly used for aerospace, heavy equipment, and OEM production applications. These booths feature a vertical airflow pattern that moves from the top of the booth to the floor to ensure contaminants or overspray is pulled away from the finished surface. The aerospace industry uses downdraft booths for aircraft parts and fuselage, while OEM manufacturers use them for automotive and other high-volume production applications. Other large-scale finishing processes for heavy equipment, buses, and trucks use downdraft booths to ensure quality across the entire production line. Downdraft booths are a larger investment for manufacturers, but the quality, airflow, temperature and contamination control are essential for these industries. 

Every industry has unique finishing requirements and there are different paint booths to meet the needs of each application. Rohner designs and builds paint booths for your specific production requirements to ensure the best quality finishes for your products, vehicles, and components. Talk to our team about which paint booth is right for you. 

Have questions? Please contact the Rohner team: info@rohner-usa.com