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SAVE
THE DATE - Paint and Powder Coating Expo Returns in 2012
Save the Date! The 2012 Paint and Powder Coating
Expo, hosted by the Twin Cities Chapter of the Chemical Coaters
Association International, will be held on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at
Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.
The Paint and Powder Expo is a combination trade
show and educational program that is sponsored every two or three years
by the Twin Cities CCAI chapter. In the past, the program has featured
approximately 15 educational presentations and has attracted nearly 70
exhibitors and 450 attendees. Due to the outstanding participation,
educational sessions, and exhibitors, the Paint and Powder Expo has
earned a reputation for being an outstanding regional trade show and a
must-attend event for people working in and/or supporting the finishing
industry.
For
an immediate need, please contact Expo Co-Chairman Paul Pagel at the
Minnesota Technical Assistance Program. He can be reached at
612-624-4638 or
expo@umn.edu.
We look forward to seeing you in 2012!
For more info go
ccatc.com/expo.htm
SPECIAL DINNER MEETING FOR FEBRUARY
On Thursday, February 16th, our TC
Chapter will be sponsoring a unique event.
There will be a special panel made up of four industry experts.
Each panel member is a decision maker in his corporation and will offer
a summary of his professional
background as well as a brief bio of his company. The topic for the
panel will center on what specifics they
require from suppliers that presently do business with them and what is
expected of potential supplier
sales personnel that would like to do business with their firms.The
panel members will be Kent
Kienitz –
President of Powder Coating Technologies;
Mark Walsworth – Coating
Specialist for the Donaldson
Company; Matt Morrow –
Manufacturing Cell Manager for Graco, Inc. and
Bernie Walz – Global
Coating
Engineer for Pentair Technical Products.You
can see from the titles and the companies represented the
panel is made up of top end industrial professionals. It should prove
most interesting to hear their
expectations from sales people and others that want to supply them with
their products and
services.If you are a sales
professional or if you are in an allied position to one of the panel
members,
this might be one of the more valuable meetings that you could attend
this year.
What are some of
the requirements to do business with today’s industrial
companies?
Location:
Mendakota Country Club
2075 Mendakota Drive, Mendota Heights, MN 55120 (651-454-2822)
Registration: 5-5:30 PM
Program: 5:30 - 6:30 PM- dinner to follow. (Choose 1 of 3 entrees the
night of the event when you sign in.)
Cost: $25 members, $35 non-members.
Registration:
https://fs17.formsite.com/TwinCitiesCCAI/form8/secure_index.html
(Closes Friday 2/10/12)
Current TC-CCAI President,
Angela Kokesh presents Past
President plaques to
Pat
Cullen (2007/2009)
Mark
Walsworth (2010/2011).The service award plaques were
presented to Pat and Mark at the November TC-CCAI Board of Directors
meeting.
SCOTT BERG TC-CCAI 2010-2011 SUPPLIER OF THE YEAR
Scott Berg of Robovent Solutions Group was recently awarded the
“Supplier of the Year” Award by the Twin Cities Chapter of the CCAI.
For the last 1-1/2 years, Scott has been the Finish
Line Specialist for Robovent Solutions Group headquartered in Sterling
Heights, MI. Robovent is primarily a manufacturer and supplier of
welding fume extraction systems and also furnishes paint & powder
application equipment and finishing systems. Scott travels the United
States for Robovent as the Finish Line Specialist.
Scott began a sales and service career in the
finishing industry in 1984 selling paint and paint spray equipment and
has remained in the industry in finishing equipment sales over the last
27 years.
Scott’s connection with the CCAI began 11 years ago
when he joined the Twin Cities CCAI Chapter. In the past, Scott has
served on the TC-CCAI Board of Directors and has been active in numerous
local Chapter events. Scott states that one of the most important facets
that he has received from his TC-CCAI membership is “the
networking that has helped him immensely”. Scott
said that being exposed to various methods of finishing methods has
also been of great help to him.
Congratulations Scott Berg – TC-CCAI Supplier of
the Year.
BERNIE WALZ TC-CCAI 2010-11 USER
OF THE YEAR
Bernie Walz of Pentair Technical Products (Anoka, MN) has been
awarded the “User of the Year” Award by the Twin Cities Chapter of the
CCAI.
Pentair began in 1945 and is now a world leader in
the manufacturing of electrical control cabinets of all sizes. Bernie
has been with Pentair for seven years and his overall finishing career
spans 24 years. Bernie’s title with Pentair is Global Coating Engineer.
Bernie’s primary responsibility at Pentair is coordinating the paint and
powder finishing systems for Pentair’s 16 global coating systems.
One of the primary duties for Bernie is to oversee
taking the best practices from the global facilities and then coordinate
and implement those practices into all of the other facilities. This of
course is an ongoing process for Bernie.
Bernie has been a member of the Twin Cities Chapter
of the CCAI for five years and is currently a member of the TC Chapter
Board of Directors. Bernie has taken part in other numerous Chapter
activities in his years of membership.
When asked about the primary benefit of belonging
to the CCAI, Bernie said that “Membership in the CCAI offers him a
panel of experts that can
offer him answers to finishing challenges when he may not have the
answers.
Congratulations Bernie Walz – TC-CCAI User of the
Year.
DONALDSON COMPANY TOUR REPORT
By Pat Cullen
On Thursday, January 19th, the Donaldson
Company plant in Baldwin, WI opened its
doors to the TC-CCAI group of 30 for a very
thorough plant tour of its manufacturing
facility. Donaldson is a leading worldwide provider
of filtration systems. The company
started back in 1915 with Frank Donaldson and two
others starting up a shop to
manufacture air cleaners for farm tractors.
Donaldson has since grown to force of
42 plants throughout the world.
After registration and a continental breakfast,
Donaldson Plant Manager Tom Carlson
opened the session with a detailed description of
the Donaldson Company history and
then Tom addressed the plant operation at the
Baldwin plant. After Tom Carlson,
Joe
Hemenway
the Donaldson Quality Manager went into detail on how the paint &
process
functions are managed at the plant.
From the opening remarks, the tour group learned
that Lean Manufacturing is a major
component for Donaldson and the feeling is that
Lean pays back big time! Employee communication is also very important
at Donaldson with all employee suggestions having
a formal submittal process and each suggestion
receives attention shortly after it is posted.
Tom Carlson and Joe Hemenway were joined by
Tom Birkel from the Quality
Dept. to lead
a plant tour. The tour attendees were taken
throughout the plant viewing both Donaldson
lines of industrial and military products. Welding,
fabrication parts cleaning and painting
were the featured areas of the plant tour.
TC-CCAI tour group at Donalson - Baldwin, Wi
Tom Carlson & Joe Hemenway address the TC-CCAI
Donaldson tour
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