The 2015 Custom Coaters Forum—held at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, this past March 5-6, is the world’s only educational and ne...

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The Powder Coating Institute’s mission is to serve its members by promoting and communicating the benefits of powder coating technology. To ca...

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Outgassing describes the phenomena of entrapped gasses being released through a powder coating during the cure process. When this gas passes through the coating, it creates pinholes. 

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Throughout my career, delivering the message of powder coating technology has been a passion for me. My version of “Powder Coating 101&rdquo...

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  Dear Fellow PCI® Members, We’ve spent the last two years on “Return to Growth” and “Shaping the Future Together...

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When this automated parking garage maker needed a green, robust fifinish for its modular, steel construction frame, they chose powder coating to get the job done. By Sharon Spielman

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What began as a small body shop in the late 1970s is now a 40,000 square-foot metal fabricating and powder coating business that caters to, among o...

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Powder coatings are used to protect and beautify.  Formulators by their nature us mainly on film performance and durability.  It must  be part of their chemistry training.  However, the first thing the customer sees is the appearance of the product.  If the color does not meet a customer's expectations because of inconsistency of variation, then finishing operation has failed.  This article offers an overview on color control and how to troubleshoot variations.

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This week marks the start of regular season baseball in the United States, an event I look forward to with anticipation every year. Somehow, the beginning of baseball seems to return life back to a normal, predicable cadence. Like the innings of a long game, we have seen a steady rise in nonfarm payrolls over the past year. This month, however, the labor market threw a curveball and upset the reliable recent progress in the labor market. 

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The trade journal Tire Business (3/31, Moore) reports that despite the looming expiration in May of the “$10.8 billion stopgap transportation funding bill” that President Obama enacted last summer, Congress has yet to authorize a multiyear transportation funding plan. 

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