04.2017
ProFinisher IN THIS ISSUE
1 Learn how Preval® and Sherwin-Williams helped a customer significantly reduce overspray 2 Take the guesswork out of finding the right industrial masking tape 3 Browse our promotional equipment and supplies 4 Achieve color formula consistency with our online system
SYNERGIES TO HELP YOU WIN SCOTT CROSLEY, GLOBAL INDUSTRY DIRECTOR, GENERAL INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS AND PROGRAMS, SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PRODUCT FINISHES
Every company talks about getting close to their customers, but at Sherwin-Williams it’s more than a saying – it’s in our DNA. Our expertise in paint chemistry and color, combined with local service centers and in-depth technical knowledge of industrial production processes, creates synergies that help us simplify our customers’ lives and advance their businesses with customizable solutions.
MAXIMIZING SPEED AND SAVINGS
These synergies enable us to do more than just sell paint – they allow us to take a holistic look at your finishing operation to provide value-added services and support, like our spray equipment and shop supplies that improve our customers’ finishing lines.
Preval , a division of Chicago Aerosol, is an industry-leading provider of convenient spray and touch-up solutions. As a Sherwin-Williams ProVisions™ partner, Preval helped a manufacturer of engineered power electric transformers fix overspray issues, and in the process increase throughput and save money.
They also afford us the opportunity to identify the many ways our products and services are transferable across industries. Our history of supplying quality coatings to job shops, metal fabricators and fleet manufacturers has given us the technology and expertise to enhance our offerings for the commercial sign market. Although the end users are different, both sign and automotive shops bend, weld and assemble metal, then prime and topcoat the fabricated part. That’s why we’re excited to debut our complete offering for sign manufacturers at the International Sign Expo in April. Included in this is our new GENESIS® Lustral™, which is formulated to increase throughput in the shop. Check out a preview on the next page.
MINIMIZING OVERSPRAY PREVAL® SUCCESS STORY ®
Challenge A customer approached Sherwin-Williams Sales Representative Brian Wagemann, and Brandon McKinnon, their local Sherwin-Williams facility manager, to evaluate its paint line’s touch-up process. The aerosols the company has traditionally used to touch up the paint on its 10-foot transformers required special storage, disposal and inventory management. Inconsistency of force and paint level from the aerosols, nozzle clogs and poor spray patterns were also common issues that complicated the process of ensuring a quality final appearance. Additionally, the aerosol spray paints produced significant amounts of overspray and made it challenging to get a good angle on the hard-to-reach spots that needed to be touched up. The paint sprayed from an aerosol can would bounce off the transformers’ parts and create a mist that would get onto other units being worked on four or five feet away. In many cases, the transformers were so large they required the use of a ladder to touch up spots by hand.
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