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A Winning Choice: Pinturas Marcelino González Focused on Powder Coating Quality and Durability for Large Workpieces Alessia Venturi ipcm® When staking everything on an industrial challenge, in addition to a dose of luck, the key to winning it is to rely on high profile, reliable, solid, and technically skilled partners. This is what has happened to Pinturas Marcelino González, which is now the most important powder and liquid coating contractor for large manufactured parts in central Spain also thanks to its close relationship and technical exchange with AkzoNobel Coatings S.L.U., supplying it with a wide range of Interpon-branded primers, intermediate finishes, and top coats.
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n the contract coating sector, there tend to be two approaches to customer service: some companies lack an industrial culture of
specialisation and quality and prefer to compete on costs, whereas others offer very high quality coating processes and clearly understand the importance of guaranteeing the durability of the coatings applied. The latter often work for international groups, extending their market beyond national borders –a rare accomplishment for contractors, 90% of which tend to work for local businesses. However, these companies’ coating know-how is such that their reputation goes beyond their country’s borders, attracting customers from neighbouring nations. Pinturas Marcelino González (Valladolid, Spain) belongs to this second group of businesses. It is one of the largest and most flexible industrial coating contractors in its country, and above all one of the few in the nation and the only one in central Spain to offer liquid, powder, or mixed coating processes capable of meeting both very high aesthetic requirements and corrosion resistance standards up to C5M High, the highest in the classification of the ISO 12944 regulation, on large, highmass parts. Marcelino González can carry out painting projects both on site and in its workshop, ranging from the decorative and industrial sectors,
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Poles powder coated by Pinturas Marcelino González (Valladolid, Spain).
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with a focus on anti-corrosive applications, to maintenance and industrial flooring. That is an incredible amount of skills and experience
