From Disruption to Transformation

It likely will be years before we fully understand all the ways our world changed because of COVID-19 and the concurrent domestic upheaval, virtual schooling, cancellations, shuttered businesses, lost jobs, lost lives; the dire impacts are heartbreaking and unfathomable.

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Technology Interchange—Color Matching Powder Coatings

In a broad sense, coatings provide two distinct properties: the protection of an article and the aesthetics that conform to a desired color, gloss, and surface characteristic. This issue’s Technology Interchange will introduce you to the color matching process of creating a powder coating.

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A Successful Conversion from Liquid to Powder

In 1951, Joe Kinnear and his son Peter combined ingeniously designed slotted steel angles with matching clamping plates to form an extremely stable and versatile configurable shelving system. They founded “The Handy Angle Company,” which since 1966 has operated under the Link 51 brand name.

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Focus on Procedures Spurs Powder Coating Growth

Businesses naturally change over time, depending on many internal and external factors. Those that embark on growth and expansion projects take calculated risks and manage the expected (and unexpected) through the process.

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Experience Plays a Key Role for Insourcing

For the better part of a year, a light line drawing of a powder coating system was on display in the office of Dave Larsen, president and CEO of Larsen Manufacturing. Not one to rush into a new venture, the drawing served as a subtle reminder for Dave to assess, and reassess, bringing the process in-house.