Latest News from U.S. Paint
Getting to Know Hue: Justin Kuehnel
It’s time for another installment of our ‘Getting to Know Hue’ series where we highlight truly exceptional people that work at U.S. Paint. This employee spotlight features Justin Kuehnel, a Health & Safety Manager that has been working with our team since August 21, 2017. We asked Justin to give us an inside look into…
Getting to Know Hue: Butch Eley
Welcome to the second installment of our ‘Getting to Know Hue’ series where we highlight truly exceptional people that work at U.S. Paint. This employee spotlight features Butch Eley, a color specialist that has been working with our team since January 14th, 1985 (happy 38th work anniversary!). We asked Butch to give us an inside…
A Thank You to Our Customers for Choosing U.S. Paint
As 2022 comes to an end, we’d like to extend a thank you to all of our customers this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with Original Equipment Manufacturers and industrial partners around the globe. U.S. Paint would not be what it is today without the partnerships we’ve established throughout the years.…
High Performance Paint and Coatings
High performance paints and coatings are a premier choice for OEMs and industrial use. They are durable, extremely resilient, repellant, and easy to maintain. However, not every option is created equally. When it comes to choosing a high performance paint or coating for your company, quality matters. Extraordinary products take time, and our staff at…
Quality OEM Paint for Plastic
Quality OEM Paint for Plastic As an original equipment manufacturer (OEM), you know the importance of choosing the correct paint for a specific type of surface. Not all paint is created equally. Paint products that work for metal elements aren’t always interchangeable for plastic surfaces. Even various plastics can interact with paints differently due to…
Getting to Know Hue: James Moreland
In our series Getting to Know Hue, we invite you to learn more about the people that contribute to the success of our company and family. This employee spotlight highlights James Moreland, U.S. Paint Lab Manager and Chemist. James has been an invaluable part of our team for over 25 years and would like to…
Adhesion Promoters, Primers, and Sealers
Adhesion promoters, primers, and sealers are often the foundation upon which a robust coating stack is built. Like all our development, these base layers are selected or developed collaboratively with our customers, the original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs. Each layer is often uniquely designed to fit its specific condition, substrate, and end-use. Adhesion promoters, sometimes…
Methods We Use to Increase Yield
U.S. Paint works to find ways for OEMs to sensibly assess how their equipment will perform for their unique paint products. Our product must fit into their current process seamlessly while eliminating steps to enable leaner processes. Factors such as cost, space requirements, manpower, cleanability, ergonomics, safety, and reliability also have to be considered. It…
Industrial Paint for Plastic
OEMs everywhere can attest that industrial paint for plastic surfaces can be very different from painting metal. Overall, plastics see some of the main problems you see with covering metal surfaces, but each plastic surface can be affected by paint differently. The problem with painting plastics is that there are so many different plastics in…
The Role of Advanced Coatings in Integrated Design
Integrated design involves integrating existing, often different systems in a way that focuses on increasing value to the customer, like improved product quality and performance, while at the same time providing value to the company such as reducing operational costs and improving customer response time. At U.S. Paint we take all that into consideration when…
Customized Coatings vs. Off-The-Shelf Products
Every painting environment is different. This means one-size-fits-all solutions like off-the-shelf paint are not the best choice for the average OEM. While they may be the easy choice, off-the-shelf products don’t take into account the unique needs of your paint department and clients. That’s the main selling point of U.S. Paint. We are a big…
Blanketing the Coatings Customer With Service
US Paint is always looking for opportunities. Opportunities can come from nowhere, meaning from an unknown, or previously unfamiliar prospect. Or, often, they will come from within a current customer, or maybe a customer’s tier supplier, or even from a customer’s competitor. If a cold contact comes to us, it is most often someone who…
Powder vs Liquid Coatings
Coatings protect and decorate almost every item in our lives. From mobile phones and automobiles, to factories, farm equipment, roadways and bridges; most everything we value is painted. Selecting the right paint or “coating solution” for your individual project or process may seem overwhelming, but it can be easier than you might imagine with your…
Your Success is Our Brand
We know there’s no universal approach when it comes to paint manufacturers—or any industry for that matter. That’s why at U.S. Paint, we have a global team of experts trained to meet the needs of paint companies around the world, from North America to Europe to Asia and beyond. We talked to one of our…
Surface Preparation Standards in Paints and Coatings
Proper surface preparation is essential for the success of any protective coating process. The importance of removing oil, grease, prior coatings, surface defects and contaminants cannot be overemphasized. The performance of any paint coating is directly dependent upon the correct and thorough preparation of the surface prior to coating. The most expensive and technologically advanced…
Agricultural Applications for Paints and Coatings
The farming and agriculture industry is the backbone of the U.S. economy. For that reason, original equipment manufacturers look to U.S. Paint to help farmers and manufacturers prolong equipment life and assist in production efficiency by applying advanced surface coatings to their machinery. Those in the agriculture and construction industries often identify with their brands…
Fighting extreme weather with specialty coatings
When we apply specialty coatings, we do so with the expectation of some performance benefit. The good news is, U.S. Paint’s range of protective coatings can safeguard surfaces against corrosion, chemicals, salt attack, extreme temperatures, and much more. Specialty coatings are protective primers, paints, and sealants that can have marine, industrial, commercial, and residential applications.…
Effective Quality Control Practices
Paints and coatings are needed in many different markets, ranging from commercial builders to original equipment manufacturers. Some of these markets are subject to regulations that require testing for compliance. Other times, our clients have more complex specifications to help with everything from safety to aesthetics. Experts at U.S. Paint use a wide variety of…
U.S. Paint Remains Operational During COVID-19 Pandemic
U.S. Paint understands the dire social circumstances at play during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we care about more than reaping profits during this difficult time. We empathize with those affected by COVID-19 and have taken steps to ensure our customers’ businesses remain financially secure and their people remain healthy. We’ve taken steps to make each…
A Great Place to Work
What makes a business a great place to work? Is it benefits, flexible hours, or a window view? It’s actually so much more than that. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recognized well-rounded businesses in its 2020 Top Workplaces awards and it’s an honor for U.S. Paint to be among the winning small companies this year! The…