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Watch Sun Glo
Owner Andy Pozin
Go inside Sun Glo
Industrial Finishing's
new facility and hear
owner Andy Pozin talk
about rebuilding after
a fire. Scan the QR code
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Rebuild Means New Start
"Nothing is on the plating shop floor where it is open to those
elements," Pozin says. "We built a conditioned area and set
all the components up very nicely so that they can run very
efficiently and be easily maintained."
Waasy Boddison, owner of American Plating Power, says it is
one of the best setups of a plating operation he has ever seen.
"Andy had a great idea of how he wanted all the rectifiers
and equipment set up, and it's pretty ingenious," Boddison
says. "He's a smart guy, but also a really great guy. We
wanted to help him get his shop back up as quickly as we
could, but the way he designed it is a very good way to go."
Pozin also replaced all the PVC conduits in the facility
with steel; he remembered when he entered the facility
after the fire and seeing all the plastic piping hanging
down from the rafters like ropes.
"We actually have very few electrical pipes in the
process area at all," he says. "We installed a big bus duct that
runs inside the room to the control cabinets, and then into the
rectifiers and to the pumps and solenoid valve, and all at one
end of the shop. There is no electrical run that is over 15 feet."
The only electrical components on the shop floor are the
touchscreen heads at the end of each plating line, which are all
low voltage. Pozin also designed the system so that on top of
every touchscreen is a red light that the illuminates when all of
the power to the head is completely off.
"I can look down the line at all the heads and see all the
red lights on, which tells me that everything electric in that
plating area is off," he says. "It lets me know I will not burn
anything down because I left it on. There is nothing better
than a visual confirmation."
For information on Sun Glo Industrial Plating, visit
sun-glo.com; for information on American Plating Power,
visit americanplatingpower.com.
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