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June 2026
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How to Choose the Right Coating Supplier: Key Factors to Consider
Whether you work in welding, mining, or manufacturing, your equipment matters. You would never let an unskilled worker handle a rotary drill, so why would you expose your precious pump components to the wrong coating supplier?
see moreBeyond the Booth: A Practical Guide to Field Thermal Spraying
Thermal spraying in the field (outside the comfort of the job shop) is bread-and-butter work for many in our industry, including the coating of bridges and pipelines; the interiors of power plant boilers and hydroelectric waterways; and thousands of square feet of pipelines, refinery structures, and offshore rigs. For others — particularly those of us accustomed to spray booths and robots, jigs and fixtures, metallurgical lab coupons, and coordinate measure machine (CMM) inspections — the idea of doing what we do in a remote location is both intimidating and exhilarating.
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ITSA Member News
Eleven years ago, when Jason Hunsaker asked me to start a thermal spray business with him, I never would have imagined that today I would be serving as chair of the International Thermal Spray Association (ITSA). This is truly an honor, and one that I do not take lightly.
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