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 ...
As finishers continue searching for ways to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase throughput, one piece of equipment is drawing renewed attention on plating lines: the ...
For Magnum Powder Coating owners Nancy and Steve Couturier and their son Matt, it was always the plan that their son would take over someday when the parents retired from their Comstock Park, ...
In manufacturing, machining and surface finishing are often treated as sequential, separate disciplines—each critical to part performance, yet frequently disconnected in ...
James Simonelli’s appointment as executive director of the Metal Finishers Association of California isn’t just a change in leadership, but a natural continuation of a relationship decades in the ...
Jason Brassard grew his powder coating business the same way many others have: a small setup, a lot of trial and error, and a passion that quickly outgrew the ...
James DeDeus, President of JMD Industries in New Hampshire, says he didn’t need much time to decide whether acquiring Massachusetts’ Patriot Coatings made ...
In an industry often defined by specialization, Progressive Coatings has spent the last several years doing something few finishing companies are willing—or able—to attempt: expanding ...
In surface finishing operations, pumps and power supplies rarely grab attention, but they often determine whether a line runs smoothly or struggles with downtime, inefficiency, and escalating ...
Natalia Stephen thanks one special person for putting her in the position she is in: the owner of two finishing operations in Ontario, Canada, and a foremost expert in corrosion-prevention ...
Before Imran Shamsi joined his family’s finishing business in San Diego, he was working his way through the corporate ladder at a major U.S. company, where things were a bit different than where he ...
Bill Nelson is Vice President of Technology at UPA Technology, a U.S.-based worldwide supplier of coating and plating thickness measurement equipment and thickness ...
Owner Mark Morris differs from most metal finishers in that he has no inclination to add or change the services that J&M Plating in Rockford, Illinois, provides to its fastener ...
