Jeffrey Rubin is President of Testrite, a manufacturer of visual display products located in Hackensack, New Jersey. After decades of wishful thinking about bringing powder coating in-house, in 2025, Jeffrey and his father, Larry, t...

Park Kersman is President of Lorin Industries, which he purchased from his family in 2006. His grandfather founded the Muskegon, Michigan coil and batch anodizer in 1943, which has over 400,000 square feet of space.Lorin Industries has c...

Gary Burton has spent over 50 years in the metal finishing industry, working on all sides of the spectrum, including as an applicator and with suppliers.Burton returned to his roots in running plating operations when he joined G.W. Lisk ...

Carl Troiano is owner of Trojan Powder Coating, which has facilities in Florida and New York.He was  recently honored by the Fenestration and Glazing Industry Alliance (FGIA) for over 20 years of service, including many as a committ...

We chat with James Lindsay, Ph. D., a retired research engineer from General Motors who has volunteered for numerous surface finishing industry groups over the past several decades.Dr. Lindsay received the National Association for Surfac...

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...

Keshav Kumar is owner of Plateronics Processing in Chatsworth, California, which offers anodizing, chem film passivation, electroless nickel, and various other plating substrates, including gold, silver, tin, and zinc.Kumar purchased the...

Alex Budd was offered a job in metal finishing while completing his MBA six years ago, and he realized it might be his calling.“I had always been interested in industries that are under the radar that you just don't think about,” says Bu...

We talk with Elite Metal Finishing's Steve Allen about his challenge of getting the Oceanside, California, shop to attain Nadcap accreditation in chemical processing. In the finishing industry, this effort is not for the faint of heart, especia...

We talked with Joe Zabielski from Ronatec about the new Paladin high-phos electroless nickel chemistry, which the company says offers outstanding corrosion protection and hardness.Zabielski says Paladin has passed salt spray tests up to ...

We chatted with Dan Zinman from Miles Chemical on various topics about surface finishing.One topic is product availability that seems to be a big concern for many finishers, as well as just-in-time delivery, removing material from their ...

We had the chance to have an extended talk with Matt Lindstedt, President of Advanced Plating Technology in Milwaukee, about how the 2009 decision to reconfigure how the Milwaukee-based plating company worked with its customers and end OEMs has...

Not every offspring of a surface finishing company owner is destined to follow in their parent’s footsteps, work their way onto the shop floor, and eventually sit in an executive’s chair.For Ross Henry of ChromeTech in Franklin, Wisconsi...

We chat with Kandarp Patel, who purchased Somerville Plating in Melrose Park, Illinois in mid-2024 Somerville Plating is a Nadcap-certified operation with over 44 years in the finishing industry.“We were looking for something...

Judy Runge’s metallurgical engineer and surface finishing expert career spans almost 40 years in industrial, government, and academic professional settings.She worked at Northrop’s Defense Systems Division, Taussig Associates, Inc., Sapo...

Mike Petrey is Plant Manager at powder coater Prism Technologies in Redford, Michigan, which was founded in 1997 as a small family company with two employees and 2,500 square feet. The founder, Eric Felton Sr., had a history with po...

Alan Henry is the owner of ChromeTech of Wisconsin, an ISO-certified industrial plating operation that he founded in 1984. The company specializes in hard chrome, sulfamate nickel, electroless nickel, and nickel-chrome plating.The Chrome...

Jesse Heines of Digger Specialties is the Corporate Powder Coating and Project Manager for the railing, fencing, and column manufacturer with various locations around the U.S. Loren “Digger” Graber founded his outdoor living and ma...

Ross Peterson is the Chief Business Development Officer of ProPlate, an Anoka, Minnesota, company that finishes specialty items for the medical and surgical industry. In this podcast, Ross explains how ProPlate works closely with th...

Navin Mangrue is Sales Manager for Professional Powder Coating located in Etobicoke, Ontario, a family-run shop in Toronto that is ready to coat anything that might need to survive in treacherous climate.“About 99% of what we powder coat...

New England Electropolishing owners Amy Prigmore and Luke Almeida discussed how their company in Fall River, Massachusetts, has evolved since their parents founded it in 1985.Alvin and Jeannine Almeida founded NEE and slowly grew the bus...

We talk with Francisco Capacho, President and General Manager of Dixon Hard Chrome in Sun Valley, California, about his path to success in the United States electroplating industry.Capacho began his career working at his father’s plating...

Bales Metal Surface Solutions’ owners, Stacey Bales and Sara Mortensen, chose a practical gift for themselves as they prepare for their anniversary in a few years.In March, the Downers Grove, Illinois, company christened a pair of new ni...

When Chuck Zinke built his second finishing and coating operation over 100 miles away from the first, he quickly added a new word to his vocabulary.“Delegation,” says Zinke, who started Perfection Industrial Finishing in Tucson, Arizona,...

We talk with Matt Fodge, the Vice President at Gleco Plating, and his dad, Jeff Fodge, President, which has two locations in Texas in Rowlett and McAllen.Gleco provides zinc, anodize, chromate, bright nickel, tin, silver, gold, and copp...