Hack Wallace had $1,000 that he had borrowed, and a not-too-farfetched idea: he wanted to start a weekend painting business with his son, Terry. This was in 1990 in Francisco, Indiana, in the southwest corner of the state, where Hack thought he and his son could make a living painting pole barns and grain bins.

Automotive and motorcycle exteriors are exposed to extreme conditions over a long period of time due to heat, cold, moisture, stone chipping, road salt, UV radiation and much more. At the same time, no other industry makes such high demands on the appearance and feel of surfaces as the automobile and motorcycle manufacturers.

The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA), the Chemical Coaters Association International (CCAI), Products Finishing magazine and Southern Company have teamed up to provide a comprehensive training course. The Powder Coating and Curing Processes Seminar is scheduled for October 20-21, 2020, at the Alabama Power Technology Application Center (TAC) in Calera, Alabama.

Robinson has increased its ability to pre-treat, paint and apply powder coatings to products ranging from small parts to large metal enclosures and tanks at its De Pere, Wisconsin, manufacturing campus. The investment covers nearly 90,000 square feet of production space.

Countersunk holes are everywhere, and they can be difficult to mask. Standard straight pull plugs don’t mask the angled face and tapered plugs are too long to mask the hole and the angled face completely. Thankfully there are plugs available that are specifically designed to mask countersunk holes.

Watch the video above to go inside Perfection Industrial Finishing.

Chuck Zinke’s passion for coatings started many moons ago as a teenager, when he would rebuild cars and trucks in his hometown of Tucson, Arizona. He utilized the only liquid and powder coating facility in the area, but wasn’t always happy with the results.