Full Article: Balancing Operating Costs With Process Improvements Yields Environmental Compliance

For First American Resources Company, Mableton, Ga., its mission is to manufacture the highest-quality aluminum and steel pre-coated coils for the building and automotive industries. Its products are used to make automobile window and door seals, engine head gaskets, residential windows and housing exterior trim. Its coatings are all solvent based and include various adhesives, polyesters and poly vinyl chloride (PVC) paints. The company runs two coating lines, one for wide metal strips and one for precision stripe coating of very narrow metal strips. Both lines can coat single- or double-sided and are capable of applying the primer and finish coat in a single pass through the line.