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The Official Buyers Guide for the Powder Coating Industry Now in Print!

Posted on Monday, February 2, 2015

On behalf of the Powder Coating Institute (PCI®), we are pleased to present the first printed version of the Powder Coated Tough Buyers Guide. In addition to the print version, we will continue to publish the Buyers Guide in an interactive, searchable digital format that can be downloaded as a pdf to your personal computer.

This print edition is important because it will reside on the desks of more than 16,500 powder coating professionals, including more than 14,000 OEMs and fabricators. Many times a powder coater needs to quickly find a supplier and they do not have access to their computer or they cannot get a signal from their smart phone. This solves the problem—it is fast and portable!

The 2015 Buyers Guide includes members of the Powder Coating Institute. These companies represent the “best of the best” in terms of supplying materials, products and services to the industry. These are the companies that actively support the technologies that you use every day and also promote the benefits of powder coating technology.

This buyers guide includes only members of the Powder Coating Institute, for they are the companies who believe it is important to volunteer their staff’s time and energy to represent the industry to outside organizations—especially to governmental and standard-setting entities. They are the people who speak at industry-wide events such as the Powder Coating Show and regional training workshops. They actively and vocally represent powder coating technology as a STRONGER-GREENER-BETTER finish for many applications.

If you google any one of the products listed in the 2015 Buyers Guide, you will likely come up with a longer list of suppliers than found in this buyers guide. But how do you know they are a capable company from which to buy products? Not because they are listed at the top of a google search—that just requires high-powered SEO. You can be sure of the commitment a supplier has to the powder coating industry IF they are a member of PCI®— this makes the Powder Coated Tough Buyers Guide such a valuable resource!

We hope that you find this printed volume of the 2015 Powder Coated Tough Buyers Guide of great value when you need to find a supplier. And, if you work with a supplier not found in this Buyers Guide, you should encourage them to join PCI® because they are losing valuable sales opportunities by their absence in this reference edition. It is a minimal investment for a great return.

We wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015. And we hope to see you at the 2015 Powder Coating Show in Louisville, Ky., on May 6-7. It is the only show in the world devoted exclusively to powder coating and is devoted to helping to make your powder coating operation the best it can be!

Dave Lurie
Executive Director, PCI®