We talk with Tony Bouie, President of ChemResearch Corp. in Phoenix, Arizona, who takes a unique approach to how CRC views its staff and the unique approach to managing them.

“I call it ‘People, Not Parts,’” says Bouie, whose company is a metal finishing service provider for the aerospace, defense, medical, semiconductor/electronics, space, and heavy equipment industries.

“We are laser-focused on our customers, which for us includes employees,” he says. “If we take care of our employees, our customers will be taken care of. So we've done things that probably seem mundane but mean a lot to our employees.”

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We speak with George LaCapra Jr., President of UniMetal Surface Finishing, and Patrick Hayden, Senior Vice President, about the company, which has two facilities in Connecticut: one in Thomaston, which serves as headquarters, and another in Naugatuck.

We talk with owner Rob Thomas of Anchor Bay Powder Coat in New Baltimore, Michigan, a 15-year-old shop that applies powder and liquid coating along with sandblasting and oven burn-off.

Tony Sclafani is Vice President and General Manager of the family-run Las Vegas AR Iron facility, including an in-house powder coating operation, AR Powder Coating.

We talk with Jason Pugh, who was in the powder coating industry for only a few months before his company — Key-Link Fencing and Railing — presented him with a huge challenge.

Jim Jones spent more than 50 years in the finishing industry, you can now find him soaring high above the clouds these days as a pilot of his own planes after retiring from DIFCO in Georgia.

We talk with Ken Hoffmann, president of Palm Springs Plating in California, who started the company more than 30 years ago.

Loreto “Larry” Capoccia came to the U.S. from Italy with his wife in 1966 and soon found a career in the metal finishing industry.

We chat with Dan Brockman, the founder of the Dayton, Ohio, shop Techmetals.

Our guest on The Finish Line is Reid Metal Finishing owner TJ Grandcolas, who has been running the Santa Ana, California company since 2018.

We talk with Chris Trimino, Vice President of Operations at Sav-On Plating in Phoenix, Arizona, about how, if a part is made in the U.S. and headed to Mexico to be assembled, then Sav-On Plating seeks to be a stop on the way.

We chat with John Lindstedt, whose family owns Advanced Plating Technologies in Milwaukee.

We talk with Rich DePoto, Business Development Manager with Uyemura International, on the future of plating EV parts with Silver.

We talk with Ralph Capalbo Jr. from New Method Plating in Worcester, Massachusetts, where Capalbo worked for almost 60 years in a company started by his father.

We talk with Eric Svenson Sr., president of Plating Resources, about the development of a new and safe way to add sulfate to hexavalent chrome plating baths, Buffered Sulfate Adjuster.

We spoke with Dan Rose, owner of Elite Metal Finishing in Oceanside CA, about the job coaching he has received from Jim Castigilia from Business Street Fighter Consulting.

We chat with Kevin Maas from Maas Brothers Powder Coating in Livermore, California, who runs the business outside of San Francisco with his brother, Kraig.

We chat with Stephen Rudy CEF, who has a 40+ year career in the finishing industry, and has seen — and solved — many issues that occur in plating operations.

Our latest podcast features Terry Giles, who spent more than 40 years in the finishing industry.

We chat with Andrew Kossowski, who three years ago  left the corporate world behind to buy a metal finishing operation. This year, he is building himself a new one.

We chat with Kettle Moraine Coatings's former owner John Heyer from Jackson, Wisconsin, who spent more than 50 years in the powder coating industry.