Colorful Job Shop Shines

摘要

On a recent trip to Europe with the DuPont Powder Coatings Star Coalers Study Tour (to read about the visit, see my Editor's View on page 4 of the January 2006 issue of Industrial Paint & Powder), one of the facilities the group visited was the large job shop, Colors NV. It turns out that Colors is a perfect name for the company as it has applied more than 800 different colors and employees never know what new designer look the architect is going to ask for from one week to the next. Colors NV was established in Hamme (East Flanders), near Antwerp, Belgium, in 1987 as a subsidiary of Aralco Ventilation Technology. Aralco manufactures a line of unique ventilation devices that are powder coated by Colors. The ventilation system is part of a window frame that offers a range of decorator colors. They were so successful in providing high quality and color variety that other businesses expressed an interest in having their products powder coated at Colors, and so they began to take in outside work.