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Two Hours a Day in the “Gemba”

Spending time on the shop floor can save your job and your business. Gemba is a Japanese word meaning “real place.” In business, the gemba is the place where value is created. In manufacturing, the gemba is the shop floor.

Powder Coater Is Fencing Out The Competition

With the help of Reliant Finishing Systems, a Texas fabricator uses U.S.-built powder coating equipment to compete against foreign imports.

Coater is Getting Healthy in California’s Central Valley

Advanced Industrial Coatings specializes in medical and food service finishes. The company’s 50,000-sq-ft plant contains a conveyorized powder coating line capable of handling massive amounts of coatings, and an environmental and climate-controlled area for scientific applications.

Take the Paint Efficiency Audit

Achieve cost savings through more efficient finishing operations. As finishing operations look to stay competitive in an increasingly global economy, it’s no surprise that efficiency has become a popular topic.

Anodizer Heads West to Get to the East

Southern Aluminum Finishing branches out to the Western U.S. and Asia. The new facility will help service its growing list of customers in the Western and Mountain regions of the U.S. and in Canada, as well as to take advantage of overseas orders from the Pacific Rim.

If Only Every Day Were Thanksgiving

The lost art of saying “thanks” needs to be revived.

Powder vs. E-coat Costs

VIDEO: Fire Engulfs Aero Chrome Plating in California

The company’s website says that Aero has been serving the aerospace industry since 1992 in a 50,000 sq ft. Van Nuys, CA. facility.

Stains Using Cyanide Copper Plating Bath

Cash To Head Axalta Industrial Coatings; PPG Appoints Braun as VP Industrial Coatings

Cash joins Axalta Coating Systems from AkzoNobel Coatings; Braun has been appointed vice president of PPG's industrial coatings, Americas, effective immediately, replacing Richard Zoulek, who has left the company.