Aerospace-coatings unit looks to new facility to add thrust to already strong growth trajectory.
The Aerospace coatings business unit recently completed a major investment that is expected to help the business continue to gain altitude in the relatively small, but highly specialized, niche of supplying coatings for the business-aircraft industry. The company has begun operations at its new Aerospace Service and Training Facility in Andover, KS, a small community located just east of Wichita on the edge of the Great Plains.
The 25,000-square-foot unit, located in a new industrial park within sight of Sherwin-Williams’ existing production plant in Andover, was created to help the Aerospace Coatings division and its customers stay focused on advances in aerospace coatings and their application methods. Training programs for coatings users, in fact, are a centerpiece of the new facility’s operations, with application activities carried out in spray-painting areas that can simulate the temperature and humidity conditions encountered at aircraft manufacturing and refinishing sites.