Powder Coat

Amazon is expanding its U.S. manufacturing footprint with plans for a new advanced manufacturing facility in Greenwood, Indiana, that will include automated powder coating as a key part of its production operations.

You’ll hear a number at a trade show someday, standing around during the sessions with a fancy coffee in your hand, and someone will tell you what shops like yours are going for.

Powder coatings are a green alternative to conventional solvent-borne liquid coatings, but they have the intrinsic drawback of color-matching and adjustment in production with the conventional extrusion process.

When Nelson Zimmerman looks at the future of Keystone Koating, he sees much more than a powder coating operation approaching its 40th anniversary.

Madison Lake Capital introduced UltiCoat, a single brand that brings together Scott’s Industrial Coatings and Perfection Industrial Finishing’s industrial coating and finishing operations in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. 

If you’ve spent any time around a finishing line, you’ve probably heard some variation of the same conversation.

Hoffmann Family of Companies, a U.S.-based, family‑owned firm, acquired Naples Powder Coating in Florida.

The metal finishing industry has spent years talking about digital transformation.

In an era when many finishing operations struggle to find labor, maintain production capacity, or weather economic slowdowns, Crest Coating in Anaheim, California, has taken a decidedly different approach.

Winona Powder Coating in Etna Green and Elkhart, Indiana, recently shipped its millionth part to automotive-market Tier One supplier Autokiniton.

A few weeks ago I spent some time with a small, family-owned powder coating shop that opened its doors not all that long ago.

Selling your business is not a solo project, even though many may have run the place as one for years.

In an industry where many shop owners still guard their processes like state secrets, Dan Fitzpatrick has taken the opposite approach.

In this work, silver-free UV-curable powder coatings with antimicrobial properties were developed.

There is a word we use in this industry that’s always felt a little too small to me: vendor.

Former investment banker Jamie Visker had zero finishing experience when he bought Winona Powder Coating in 2002, which he thinks turned out to be a good thing.