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KMI Celebrates 30 Years

Posted on Sunday, June 1, 2014

KMI Systems celebrated its 30th anniversary on April 4, 2014. Since 1984, KMI’s mission has been to engineer, design and build powder, paint and porcelain enamel finishing systems at a reasonable cost within the project schedule. According to KMI president Kevin Coursin, “These systems must be reliable, environmentally friendly, and low maintenance. They must have low operating costs and produce high quality finishes. KMI’s commitment to its customers doesn’t end at system completion.”

When three men in the finishing industry—Jim McRoy, Lou Kolar and Vik Desai— decided to leave their jobs at a finishing company to start their own, one could have only speculated that KMI’s 30th anniversary party would double as a retirement celebration for Jim McRoy. On April 5 this year, the company gathered at a local reception hall in Crystal Lake, Ill., to celebrate McRoy’s beginning and retirement at KMI.

“The company has seen a tremendous amount of growth in the last several years, and we plan to continue that for at least the next thirty years,” Coursin says.

KMI’s world headquarters are located in Crystal Lake, Ill., with regional offices in Monterrey, Mexico, and Nanjing, China.