Published 5/25/2020

2020 Top Shops for Liquid and Powder Coating

The sixth annual Top Shops Benchmarking Survey measured shops based on more than 50 operational metrics including lead time, on-time delivery, first-pass quality yield and finishing equipment usage, among others.

Edited by: Scott Francis

Editor-In-Chief, Gardner Business Media

Products Finishing recently conducted its sixth annual Top Shops Benchmarking Survey for the liquid and powder coating industries. Analysts from the Gardner Intelligence team combed through aggregate data submitted by hundreds of survey participants from the U.S., Canada and Mexico to identify trends indicating how finishers are performing and how companies can use those data to identify areas for growth and improvement. Shops were measured based on more than 50 operational metrics including lead time, on-time delivery, first-pass quality yield and finishing equipment usage, among others.

Listed below are 50 Top Shops for 2020 along with their top official:

Company Name	Top Official	Location
Georgia Powder Coating	Dallas Cooley, VP Sales	Gainesville, Ga.
Professional Plating Inc.	Larry Dietz, General Manager	Brillion, Wisc.
Houston Plating & Coatings	William H. Howard, Jr., CEO	South Houston, Texas
Select Powder Coating	Cole Scego, President	Union, Mo.
Freedom Finishing Inc	Gloria Ender, President	Benton Harbor, Mich.
All-Color Powder Coating Inc.	Mark Mortensen, President	Oregon, Wis.
Militex Coatings Inc.	Andre Maas, President	London, Ontario
Roy Metal Finishing Company	John Pazdan, Managing Director	Conestee, S.C.
Aircraft X-ray Lab	Gary Newton, CEO	Huntington Park, Calif.
A.M. Metal Finishing	Rick Hunter, President	Orlando, Fla.
Parker Trutec	Jay Kromalic, President	Urbana, Ohio
Superior Powder Coating Inc.	Charles Briggs, President	Elizabeth, N.J.
Recubrimientos Metalicos de Mexico	Carlos Cielak	Mexico City, Mexico
Bristol Powdercoat	Allan Phillips, Business Manager	Burlington, Ontario
JIT Powder Coating Company	Timothy A Milner, President/Owner	Farmington, Minn.
Pilkington Metal Finishing	Van Pilkington, President	Salt Lake City, Utah
Crest Coating	Jeff Erickson, President	Anaheim, Calif.
S&B Finishing Co Inc.	Kenneth Spielman, President	Chicago, Ill.
Westside Finishing Company Inc.	Korey Bell, President	Holyoke, Mass.
Winona Powder Coatings Inc.	Jamie Visker, CEO/Owner	Etna Green, Ind.
Fitzgerald Finishing LLC	Tom Melita, President	Detroit, Mich.
Wolkerstorfer Company Inc.	Steffen Wolkerstorfer, President	New Brighton, Minn.
Ace Anodizing and Impregnating Inc.	David Vaughn, President/Owner	Hillside, Ill.
Orion Industries	Bruce Nesbitt, CEO/CTO	Chicago, Ill.
TLC Metal Restoration Inc.	Uzi Othman, COO	Mineola, N.Y.
Surgical Coatings	James Morris, President	Sedalia, Colo.
Andrews Powder Coating, Inc.	Scott Andrews, President	Chatsworth, Calif.
TWF Industries Inc.	Tom Furrer, President	Alexandria, Minn.
Atlantic Engineered Products	Rob Williamson, President	Brusnwick, Ga.
Federal Paint Shop Inc.	Alexis Brien, President	Montreal, Quebec
Barrette Outdoor Living	Charles A Howison, VP Operations	Brooksville, Fla.
BFG Manufacturing Service	Jeffrey Grube, President	Punxsutawney, Pa.
LoneStar Corrosion Services Inc.	Glen Cronin, President	Houston, Texas
Autotech Production Services Inc.	David Angeles, General Manager	San Luis, Ariz.
Keystone Koating LLC	Rick Gehman, President	Lititz, Pa.
Profile Finishing Systems LLC	Chris Knuth, CEO	Kaukauna, Wis.
Perfection Industrial Finishing	Charles Zinke, President	Tucson, Ariz.
BCM Powder Coating	Bill McKeand, Owner	Jeddo, Mich.
Safeway Services of Rockford Inc.	Tom Lynde, President	Rockford, Ill.
Progressive Coating	Stephen Walters, President/CEO	Chicago, Ill.
BK Industrial Finishing	Barry Kendall, Owner	Merrimack, N.H.
Spectrum Metal Finishing Inc.	Jared Ruggieri, National Sales Manager	Youngstown, Ohio
Mettler Toledo LLC	Herb Aten, General Manager	Columbus, Ohio
Pro-Kote LLC	Lanny Woods, Owner	Jackson, Tenn.
Colourfast Corp.	Joseph Manzoli, President/CEO	Concord, Ontario
Reliable Powder Coating	Shawn Taylor, President	San Leandro, Calif.
Oklahoma Custom Coating	Sam Adkisson, Owner	Seminole, Okla.
Applied Finishes	Steven Slabaugh, President	New Paris, Ind.
Speedy's Industrial	Kelly Jordan, Owner	Ozark, Mo.
Aegis Industrial Finishing Ltd.	Chris McKinnon, CEO	Surrey, British Columbia

Shops Recognized at Top Shops Executive Summit

Based on the success of the Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking Survey, Products Finishing will host a Top Shops Executive Summit Oct. 20-22, 2020, in Indianapolis. The summit is an opportunity for owners and managers of finishing operations throughout North America to discover how to make their facilities more efficient and profitable by sharing ideas and learning from the best in the finishing industry.

The gathering will include top owners, executives and managers in the finishing industry for a peer-to-peer and face-to-face exchange of ideas and practices on running their business operations in a more efficient and profitable way.

The 2020 Products Finishing Top Shops will be recognized in a special ceremony, with special medallions presented to both the plating/anodizing and liquid/powder coating winners. Visit PFTopShops.com to learn how to register and for a complete list of speakers and events.