Director's Message: New Products, Services for a New Year
Posted on Friday, February 20, 2015
"If you are not growing, you are
falling behind.” Most people
in business understand this
intuitively and even structure their
businesses around the creative process
of continually offering more to their
customers.
At the Powder Coating Institute
(PCI®), the organization that serves
its members by promoting the benefits
of powder coating technology, we
embrace growth and are proud to
present new ways for our members—
the movers and shakers of the powder
coating industry—to grow and
prosper.
We are proud to introduce
our Liquid-to-Powder Coating
Cost Estimator. This new tool is
being introduced as a web app
on the following web site (www.powdercoating.org/pct) and you
can create a link on your website
to connect with this directly
by hyperlinking to http://www.powdercoatedtough.com/Liquid-
Powder-Cost-Comparison.
In addition, by the time you read
this, the web app will be a mobile
app available for FREE download
on Apple and Android devices from
their respective app store. The app
description is as follows:
The Liquid-to-Powder Coating Cost
Estimator is a simple tool for evaluating
and comparing the material cost of a
powder coating and liquid coating. The
app uses information such as volume
solids, application or reclaim efficiency,
specific gravity, product cost and applied
thickness to calculate and compare
the cost of each material. The app
offers a visual comparison of between
powder and liquid material cost, or
the app can be used to evaluate each
coating material individually. There are many other advantages to using
a powder coating finish and links to
additional information highlighting these
advantages can be accessed from within
this app.
This is just another way PCI® is
helping spread the word about the
advantages of powder coating as a
Stronger-Greener-Better technology!
Next, as most of you know, nearly
all print magazines have an online
presence to provide more content than is available in their printed editions.
This magazine, Powder Coated Tough,
is pleased to introduce its online
magazine. You can connect at www.powdercoating.org/pct. You will find
the magazine archives by topic, and
the site is completely searchable. In
addition, you will find news posted
daily so that you have a reason to
make this site your home page when
you start your browser.
With videos, new products,
an event calendar and the latest
information that affects this industry,
this new web site promises to be
the place that people searching for
information about powder coating will
turn to first!
For members only, we have
introduced the Industrial New
Construction Sales Lead program.
This program sends the latest available
information about new construction
and plant retrofits in the industries
that are most relevant to powder
coating, and sends this potential sales
lead information directly to members
of PCI®. The information is collected
by agents all over the United States
and Canada and is sent directly to
PCI® for dissemination. For more
information, please contact me at
dlurie@powdercoating.org.
In 2015, the Powder Coating
Institute will continue to develop new
and exciting programs to promote
powder coating as well as the value of
membership. We urge you to join us in
this endeavor!
Dave Lurie
Executive Director, PCI®