Shop Profile: Bob Bertelsen, A Plus Powder Coaters

We had a chance to talk with Bob Bertelsen, owner of A Plus Powder Coaters in Northeast Ohio.

When Bertelsen began A Plus Powder Coaters, he envisioned a simple production shop with possibly a conveyor line and a batch system. The company's growth has even impressed him.

“I thought maybe eventually do media blasting, a handful of people, and I envisioned it getting to maybe 40,000 square feet with 20 to 25 employees; just a nice size for a shop,” Bertelsen says.

Today, that 95,000-square-foot operation—and soon—to—be larger footprint—runs three shifts a day and employs 72 people. This is more than Bertelsen ever thought possible when he started the company, but you could say he was “driven” to succeed.