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Powder Coating integrator "Over the years, we've used a lot of different equipThe addition was intended to help grow Hartzell's customment and tried many new things," he says. "There came a made axial and centrifugal fan business, particularly for day when I decided to offer my knowledge to others. The semiconductor manufacturers, mining, wastewater, and background I have in running a shop I think really lends other heavy industrial applications. well to setting up the right equipment and then getting "Our fans are installed in very corrosive environments everything functioning in a very and we are constantly looking into ways to efficient way. It's what we do increase their lifespan for our customers," "It gives you great every day at the shop." Steimle sys. peace of mind to know The company's expansion plans included a who you're working new powder coating operation at the company Well-Known in Powder headquarters, which recently underwent a $6.8 The Wrights are a well-known name with and what type of million renovation project that added a bevy of in the powder coating industry— equipment they can new coating equipment and a "high-bay" facility Chuck was one of the original provide you with." that features a 23-foot under-hook crane height supporters of involving custom and a new 900-sq-ft sandblast room. coaters in the Powder Coating The task of putting all of this together for Hartzell fell to Institute, and Chris is a former PCI board member. Sustainable Technology Solutions—a startup in the integra"That was one of the benefits of being on the PCI board; I tion industry, but a long-time powder coating expert. did get to interact with a lot of people and a lot of suppliers," Chris says. "It really made me aware of a lot of things that were going on in the industry." Startup Chris had a previous connection with Hartzell, and he Chris Wright at Carolina Custom Clad, an industrial producwas quickly hired on to help design the new powder coating tion shop located in Rock Hill, S.C., that performs pretreatsystem, as well as work with equipment manufacturers and ment processing, thermal stripping, media blasting and suppliers to get products installed and ready to run. powder coating, recently started Sustainable Technology His main task: provide the blast, paint and transfer systems. Solutions as a custom integrator. Wright and his father, Chuck, founded Carolina Custom Clad in 1997 after decades of experience in the custom Pieces of a Puzzle coating industry. Chuck ran a coating shop in upstate Although Sustainable Technology Solutions is a distribNew York for more than 30 years before joining his son in utor for Wagner Industrial Solutions for the Carolinas and the Carolinas, at a shop that specializes in large products with a line that can accommodate sizes up to 10 by 10 by 30 feet. "After all these years working in the coating industry, I had always wanted to try to be a system integrator," Chris says. "Who better to know how a system should be set up than a guy running a shop every day?" Chris's own shop has three lines, and all the features of a modern powder coating facility, including an I-beam rail system, a powered bridge crane, a chemical wash system, a dry-off oven, media blast and manual application equipment. He also has an Hartzell manufactures industrial air moving solutions, and opened a new Singapore manuautomated conveyorized line facturing and sales office in 2011 to deliver with a five-stage washer and a quality products for the HVAC industry. specialized "hybrid" conveyorized/batch line. PRODUCTS FINISHING — pfonline.com 21