Finishing Finesse

A quest for the ultimate in quality and collaboration leads this cutting-edge job show to the latest in powder color-change technology.

Edited by Sharon Spielman

As one of Ohio's largest powder and ceramic coating facilities, Aesthetic Finishers serves the needs of commercial clients - such as those in the automotive and appliance industries - as well as individual hot rod and motor sports clients. This keeps their 80,000 sq. ft. Piqua, Ohio, facility and its 40 employees busy each week, coating hundreds of different parts in more than 50 colors.

Aesthetic Finishers caters to industries that require the highest quality finishes. "We pride ourselves on the reputation we've earned as a Class A finisher," explains Bill Coomer, the facility's owner. "Our customers demand it. We can't send an Easter-egg looking stove back to one of our appliance customers, for example. Moreover, any color contamination costs us money in rejects and wasted powder. For a while, it seemed the only way to meet the high standards of Aesthetic Finishers' customers was to spray to waste instead of reclaiming powder."

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Powder is Not a One-Trick Pony

by Steve Houston

Powder, which has been around for almost 50 years, typically is thought of as a single-coat coating for steel and aluminum surfaces. 

Of course this is because powder does work as a fantastic aesthetic and protective coating for all kinds of steel and aluminum applications. As a matter of fact, where powder is used in many of these applications, there is nothing that can really compete with it. However, did you know powder is being used in many other applications that you may not have even thought about? The fact is, powder has been developed for multiple applications outside the typical single-coat system on steel and/or aluminum with great success. Check out the list below and see how many of these applications you know about or had heard of before you read this article.

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