Advanced Finishing can provide custom value-added finishing, assembly, and storage services that go far beyond our elite powder coating and industrial painting solutions. With enormous capacity and state-of-the-art equipment at our 80,000 square foot headquarters near Erie, Pennsylvania, the range of custom value-added services we can offer is endless. Our team can provide storage, assembly, distribution services, and more to our loyal customers. We gladly accept the challenge of providing custom solutions for our finishing customers, and we invite you to contact us to discuss your company’s unique needs.
Though Advanced Finishing offers a range of value-added services, including assembly and storage, many are related to our world-class powder coating solutions. For example, Advanced Finishing can receive previously assembled products, which are delicately and safely disassembled, powder-coated, reassembled, and then either ship the completed product back to the manufacturer or distribute directly to their end customer.
Thanks to our decades of experience and enormous capacity to complete custom finishing work, we can offer a range of à la carte services that meet the precise needs of any powder coating project that requires assembly or storage. Whether your company needs pre-assembled parts powder-coated and shipped back, products inventoried and then shipped directly to customers, or pre-treatment work on metals, including zinc phosphating, we have you covered. Advanced Finishing can additionally assist with gasketing work, stenciling, complete packaging solutions, and an unlimited range of custom jobs that you can contact us to discuss.
At Advanced Finishing, the range of value-added services our team can provide is limitless and addresses numerous needs expressed by our customers over the last fifty years. The following examples provide real-life overviews of some of the complex value-added jobs we have completed in recent years.
One successful post-coating project involved inventory PODs for a global retailer. We received the pre-fabricated PODs, which were then hung on our line, powder-coated, inspected, labeled with multiple labels, placed on skids per specifications, shrink-wrapped, and sent via truckload to the contract customer’s site. The customer had us inventory an entire warehouse worth of product before we shipped the finished and completed products directly to their end customers, usually 8-12 truckloads at a time. Advanced Finishing streamlined this entire project and eliminated the need for additional service providers, which would have added time and cost to the project.
A full-service finishing job required that our team powder coat grease interceptors, followed by complex assembly tasks such as gasketing, labeling, tapping holes, and packaging the interceptors. We then distributed the powder-coated and packaged products back to the customer, and in some cases, directly to the end customers. The product sizes ranged from 1 gallon to 5,000-gallon interceptors and required complete powder coating coverage to withstand the challenging conditions of the end application.
Advanced Finishing has completed finishing jobs that include powder coating products and then storing the finished products until a major online retail and shipping company was prepared to pick them up with their trucks. As one of the largest powder coating companies with assembly and storage in PA, our 80,000 square foot facility in Erie provided the necessary space for the size of the parts in this project, the quantity, and the timeline before scheduled pickup. This space allows our team to add value to our finishing services by offering temporary storage of finished products. Please contact us if you are interested in a dedicated contracted warehouse space, as this can be negotiated on a project-to-project basis.
With in-house experts capable of solving complex finishing challenges, we can complete detailed work for a variety of plumbing applications. One job involved work on inline mixers and pipe casting designed for piping systems with a fluoride mixing component. This work entailed receiving the pre-machined components ranging from 3” – 16” in diameter, which our team masked, sand blasted, removed the tape and residue, then remasked, and finally powder coated. We worked with the customer to apply our finish on unmachined castings to eliminate masking, substantially reducing the price and delivery to the customer. With our team of skilled engineers and technicians, there are no jobs that we are unwilling to provide solutions for.
Value-added services include assembly, disassembly, packaging, labeling, inventory management, storage, and direct-to-customer distribution after powder coating.
Yes, products can be received, disassembled if needed, powder-coated, reassembled, packaged, and shipped either back to the manufacturer or directly to end customers.
Yes, finished parts can be stored, inventoried, and shipped in scheduled batches, helping streamline logistics and reduce handling across multiple vendors.
By combining coating, assembly, storage, and distribution in one facility, companies reduce transportation, handling, lead times, and the need for multiple service providers.
Products such as enclosures, interceptors, fabricated assemblies, piping components, and retail fixtures benefit from streamlined coating, assembly, and distribution services.
