Powder Coat

There’s new life at a 60- year old former industrial building in the heart of Rutland County in Vermont these days.

With educational opportunities to meet the needs of every powder coater, the Powder Coating Week 2021 program is complete and registration is open.

Global Finishing Solutions (GFS) will be hosting a virtual Industrial Finishing Summit, a chance for industrial businesses to learn from industry experts about ways to improve their finishing operation, from the comfort of their own homes.

Dallas Cooley is co-owner and vice president of sales at Georgia Powder Coating in Gainesville, Georgia. He started with GPC at its inception in 1999, hanging parts and driving the forklift. Now, he is an equity partner with over 40 employees, Lean Six Sigma yellow belt-certified, and a graduate of the National Institute of Christian Leadership. He also has a blog on leadership at dallascooley.com. He and wife Leslie and have a son, Carson.

As weld nuts have a thread in them, it is important to ensure that the thread does not get powder coating or surface finishing on it. Specially designed weld nut plugs are available to mask weld nuts quickly and efficiently.

When Neil Chrisman left PPG in 1993 to start his own business, he wanted to dream big. It turns out that the owner of Spectrum Metal Finishing didn’t realize just how big his new company would take him.

AkzoNobel has completed the acquisition of Stahl Performance Powder Coatings and its range of products for heat-sensitive substrates. The deal gives the company accelerated access to unique low curing technology that will open up exciting new market opportunities.

The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) brings industrial process heating professionals together to provide combustion and safety education for the industry each and every fall.

Shivie Dhillon is from Simi Valley, CA, where he is the owner of SunDial Powder Coatings, Bottle Coatings, Powder|Soft, and Kings Row Gastropub.

Shortly before their wedding day in 1987, Jay and Shari Kaser put up Shari’s grey Honda Prelude as collateral, took out a small business loan, and ventured into the business of residential painting.

Kim Scott and her husband, Ross, own Maui Powder Works in Hawaii, which they started in 2004. She also hosts the “Powder Coater Podcast,” and blogs on the company’s website. We caught up with Kim recently to ask her 20 questions about all things coating and Hawaii.

Even though Roy Metal Finishing finishes millions of parts each year at its three facilities in South Carolina, it’s attention to small details that have made it one of the top finishing operations in North American, and certainly one of the largest.

Pison Stream Solutions says that its White Type III Topcoat powder coating meets the newest United States military specification approval for CARC (chemical agent resistant coating) powder topcoats. 

Yardney Water Management Systems, an original equipment manufacturer of water filtration equipment based in Riverside, California, began their quest toward clean water solutions for irrigation and industrial applications in 1965.

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.