At The Powder Coating Institute’s Annual Meeting in May, I had the privilege to introduce one of this year’s inductees to the PCI® Hall of Fame. His story is quite interesting, and I thought I would share it with you.

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Pretreatment Companies

Lincoln Chemical Corporation
Elkhart, IN • 888-588-3488
www.lincolnchemical.com

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Overtime Pay Changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act The President recently issued a Memorandum directing the Secretary of Labor to change existing ...

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U.S. manufacturer of powder coating equipment has re-launched its informational website aimed at newcomers to the powder coating industry.

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DeFelsko Corp.’s PosiTector® Interchangeable Probes for inspection instruments has been named a Materials Performance Corrosion Innovation of the Year.

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Pittsburghbased PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business has earned recognition as the Enterprise Indirect Material and Services (IM&S) “Supplier of the Year“ in the John Deere Achieving Excellence Program. PPG was also awarded Partner-level status for 2013.

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Uni-Spray Systems, Waterloo, Ont., maker of nozzles, risers and other products for metal finishing, appointed Christine Jordan to the company’s engineering group. Jordan will provide engineering support to the company’s pretreatment sales force.

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Held March 27-28, 2014, at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the Custom Coater Forum provided sessions on business solutions, new product technologies, PCI® programs, round table discussions, and much more. It was an excellent networking opportunity that helped coaters gain new resources and tools to improve their business, as well as develop relationships with other powder coaters.

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About 10 years ago, corporate America got the brilliant idea to relocate U.S. manufacturing off-shore to low labor cost countries. This would save them money, increase margins and please shareholders. So off they trotted to China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to have parts, subassemblies and often fully fabricated goods manufactured in these foreign lands.

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Associations are a group of people or companies organized for a common purpose. In the case of The Powder Coating Institute (PCI®), that purpose is to promote the benefits of powder coating. The idea is that this group of people or companies can have a greater impact to move their agenda forward together than as individual companies.

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