PC Summit 2013 Preview, Innovation: The Path to Market Expansion
Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2013
By Kevin Biller
Last year we sent out a call
to everyone interested in innovation
to congregate for two hot
summer days in Columbus, Ohio,
to foster a dialogue of advancing
powder coating technology.
Boy did we get a response. People
from all walks of business
descended upon the Powder
Coating Summit to engage in
an energetic exchange of ideas
regarding technology and how to
take it to market. The entire value
chain was represented, everyone
from pretreatment experts to
fabricators and resin technologists
to formulators and equipment
suppliers to instrument mavens
and most importantly to OEMs.
And so once again my good
people, The Powder Coating Institute,
Powder Coated Tough magazine
and The Powder Coating Research Group have organized
an event that celebrates innovation as a path
to market expansion and better profits. This event
is again being held in Columbus, Ohio, June 18-19.
The PC Summit brings together the greatest minds
in our industry’s technical
and commercial communities
for a two-day event
that promises to energize
new directions to revive the
growth of the finest industrial
coating technology.
Central to the theme of
“Bringing New Technology to
Market” is a full-day symposium
that features talks on
the emerging technologies
that are changing our industry. The program boasts
raw material technologists, application engineers,
pretreatment experts and renowned formulators.
In addition to the symposium, a full-day tutorial
illuminating the fundamentals of powder coating
technology will be available to the coatings professional.
This includes a live demonstration of the
powder coating manufacturing process from raw
material selection, through extrusion, pulverizing
and the ultimate application and curing. But that’s
not all, instrumentation experts will guide the participants
on how to measure critical coating properties
such film thickness, gloss, adhesion, surface
profile and film performance.
The PC Summit provides the preeminent experts
in the powder coating industry at your disposal
for two full days of intensive dialogue. Visit www.
powdercoatingsummit.com to register or for more
information.
Kevin Biller is technical editor of Powder Coated Tough
magazine. He can be reached at 614-354-1198 or via email
at kevinbiller@yahoo.com.