Top Shops

Powder Coating

Top Shops: Freedom Finishing, Top Finishing Practices/Performances

Erik Ender prefers to use statistical process controls to let him know how efficient his powder coating and electrocoating lines are humming at Freedom Finishing.

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Liquid Coating

Top Shops: Burkard Industries, Top Business Practices

Jay Burkard likes to keep things simple and promotes his company to customers as their “one-stop coating shop,” which is being recognized for its business practices in the Products Finishing Top Shop Benchmarking Survey.

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Electrocoating

Top Shops: Metokote is No. 1 Top Shop Liquid/Powder for 2016

MetoKote is the No. 1 facility on the Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking Survey rankings for liquid and powder coatings in 2016, based on statistical analysis from more than 45 criteria.

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Liquid Coating

Top Shops: 2016 Liquid/Powder Coating

The Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking Survey for the liquid and powder coating segment yielded interesting statistics about how coating shops run their business, as well as some best practices that many others should emulate.

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Electroplating

Top Shops Profile: Barry Avenue Plating

Los Angeles-based Barry Avenue Plating was founded in 1947, and Chuck Kearsley is president and Cruz Maldonado is vice president of operations. They opened BAP Aerospace in Mexico in 2012 to serve that region.

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Electroplating

Top Shops: The Lindgren Group’s Twin Shops in the Twin Cities

Investments in quality systems and in all areas of operation help company run at 80 percent capacity.

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Top Shops

Top Shops: SWD Inc. Gives the Quality Touch to a Billion Parts a Year

Juggling customer expectations and passing through truckloads of parts earns company recognition as Top Shop.

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Top Shops: Training is Key to Techmetals’ Success

Extensive, high-level staff training and certifications show company’s commitment to customers and to employees.

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Top Shops

Top Shops: New Plating Lines Spur BFG Manufacturing Services

Company’s dedication to updating finishing technology leads to production of 300 million coated parts a year.

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Top Shops

A Conversation with...Jeff Smith, Electro-Spec

A former athlete at Notre Dame, Smith's shop was named the No. 1 plating shop in the Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking Survey

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