After more than 24 years of service to The Powder Coating Institute (PCI) and the coatings industry, Greg Bocchi will resign from the position of PCI executive director, effective April 30th.
The board of directors of The Valspar Corp. has appointed Gary E. Hendrickson as president and chief operating officer. The company also announced that Paul C. Reyelts, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will retire at the end of 2009. Lori A. Walker, Tracy C. Jokinen and Tyler N. Treat also were named to new positions.
The conference schedule for the 11th Annual Coatings for Plastics Symposium is now available on the event’s website at www.coatingsforplastics.com. The conference will open with a keynote address by Paul Mills, who will discuss decorative physical vapor deposition on behalf of Fusion UV.
Allied PhotoChemical recently received its 17th U.S. patent for a key UV technology. U.S. Patent 7,323,499 addresses “UV Curable Silver Chloride Compositions for Producing Silver Coatings.”
Continuous Coating, Inc., a coil coater and electroplater based near Los Angeles, CA, has reduced its energy demand by installing energy efficiency projects that save over one million kWh on an annual basis. This environmental leadership as has qualified Continuous Coating, Inc. to participate in the Cool Planet Project.
Columbia Chemical Corp., a supplier of zinc and tin plating additives, has moved into its new headquarters building, located at 1000 Western Drive, Brunswick, OH. The new headquarters doubles the company’s space to 44,000 sq. ft. of offices, labs, manufacturing and warehousing area.
Although the driver was originally regulatory, growth in the use of engineered hard chrome (EHC) alternatives has accelerated as original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and their customers have recognized that alternatives can provide better wear and corrosion performance with faster turnaround in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO). Many companies have found that high-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) technology reduces their cost of ownership, even though the process itself is more expensive.
With all of the details involved in achieving a high-quality finish, few finishers give much thought to the filters in their spray booths. Conventional filters are inexpensive and do the job, so why look for an alternative? But as companies search for ways to reduce operational costs and improve safety, switching to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam filters can be one way to achieve both goals.
Architectural & Industrial Metal Finishing Co., LLC (A&I) in Vermillion, OH, is busy adding on to its facility, oblivious to a generally slowing local manufacturing economy. “We are doing great,” says Chris Morris the firm’s owner and president. “We are even getting business sent to us by competitors.” What’s the secret to this custom coating firm’s success?
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