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How to Read Your Top Shops Customized Benchmarking Report

Video from Michael Guckes from Gardner Intelligence explains how to read and understand your Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking custom reports you received if you took part in the recent survey.

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Products Finishing Top Shops Management Stage

Products Finishing will showcase the best-run finishing shops in North America at the Top Shops Management Stage at Sur/Fin, where owners and managers will be on hand to discuss what makes their plating and anodizing operations some of the most efficient and profitable in the business.

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A Conversation with Rick Gehman, Keystone Koating

Rick Gehman is president of Keystone Koating in Lititz, Pennsylvania, which has been a Products Finishing Top Shop numerous times.

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You Tell Us, for a Change

The Top Shops survey and the Hall of Fame are your chances to to talk to us. We are all ears. We have learned that the best deciders of what goes in the magazine each month are those who count on it to get their industry news and information.  

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Powder Coating

Top Shops: Colourfast’s Commitment is to Quality.

Canadian shop specializes in custom coatings for institutional furniture, seating, store fixtures and home décor.      

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Powder Coating

Top Shops: Good Practices Start at the Top for A&A Global Industries.

The manager of its powder coating division leads by example.

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Top Shops: Employees drive Tri-State Fabricators to Growth, Success

This three-time recipient of the Top Shops award emphasizes human resources and training.

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Powder Coating

Top Shops: Safeway Services Earns its Way to No. 1

The owner of Safeway Services, a painting and powder coating provider in Rockford, Illinois, wants to be more than just a hired hand.

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Top Shops: New Finishing Technology Pushes Parker Trutec

Expansion and new equipment lead this Ohio coater’s growth.

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Electroplating

A Conversation with…Angela Stanley, Surtronics

Angela Stanley is president of Surtronics, a second-generation plating shop in Raleigh, North Carolina, that has been around for more than 50 years and is a Products Finishing Top Shop.

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