Powder Coating on Wood? What’s Different This Time?

Traditionally powder coating for wood has had its challenges, so what’s different now? The launch of IFS PureClad® has propelled this excit...

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Col-Met Rebrands to RTT Engineered Solutions

Effective October 1, 2020, Col-Met will rebrand and change its name to RTT Engineered Solutions.

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Nordson ICS - 2020 PCI-Nordson Ken Kreeger Scholarship Award

PCI and Nordson renamed an existing $5,000 scholarship in 2018 to honor Ken Kreeger, who had more than 40 years of powder coating experience.

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Membership Memo—A Small Investment Yields Big Returns

JIT Powder Coating has been a member of PCI for many years. As a custom coater, we are always focused on watching our costs, never try to spend m...

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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.