KOCH CAPABILITIES COATING SYSTEMS MATERIAL HANDLING THERMAL SOLUTIONS ACOUSTICAL SOLUTIONS ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION George Koch Sons | Evansville, Indiana For more than 140 years, we’ve helped our customers meet the needs of their customers. Environmentally Responsible Solutions Koch Headquarters In all of our business endeavors, KOCH is committed to providing USA Tel: 888-873-5624 equipment and services that respect the environment and use the KochLLC.com least amount of natural resources possible. HISTORY In 1873, George Koch opened a small tin, copper, and ironwork shop in Evansville, Indiana. As word of his honesty and craftsmanship grew, so did his list of customers. By the early 1930s, his sons and grandsons were working with customers throughout the Midwest and around the country on a wide range of related activities, including high quality, cost-effective paint finishing systems. By the 1970s, their sons and grandsons were working with customers around the world on state- of-the-art paint finishing systems and related systems and technologies. 2 TODAY Innovation and excellence have always been the George Koch Sons philosophy. From George Koch’s example of determination, optimism and faith in our industrial tomorrow, George Koch Sons has grown into the diverse corporation it is today. From the small tin shop on Pennsylvania Street, to a diversified global organization, George Koch Sons has grown enormously. Today, George Koch Sons, LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Enterprises, Inc. It is still headquartered in Evansville, but now has more paint finishing systems online than any other company, in nearly 40 countries around the world. It is still owned and managed by the Koch family, but is now a part of a highly-diversified company that consistently ranks among the largest privately-held companies in the U.S. Finally, it is still characterized by honesty and craftsmanship, but those qualities have been augmented by world-class design, engineering, fabrication, installation, and project management capabilities. In 1999, a new parent company named Koch Enterprises, Inc. was created. Today, Koch Enterprises is listed in the Indiana Business Journal top 10 Private companies and consists of the following companies: Koch Air, LLC Carrier residential, commercial, and industrial HVAC equipment, serving Indiana, Kentucky, Southern Illinois, and Eastern Missouri Audubon Metals, LLC South Western The only heavy-media Communications, Inc. separator and secondary Building, security, specification aluminum alloy communications and controls producer under one roof in systems for healthcare, the U.S. educational, commercial, and detention applications Brake Supply Co., Inc. Supplier of heavy equipment Uniseal, Inc. parts and key rebuilder of Structural adhesives and final drives, differentials, sealants, principally used by prop shafts, and hydraulic automobile manufacturers cylinders in North America Gibbs Die Casting Corp. George Koch Sons, LLC Global supplier of high quality Designing and manufacturing aluminum and magnesium environmentally friendly die cast components to the paint finishing systems for automotive indsutry quality original finishes 3 SURFACE FINISHING: ELECTROCOATING Koch electrocoat systems are used in We use proven component systems to more than 200 facilities around the minimize maintenance and maximize world, by some of the most demanding uptime. customers in the world. We offer systems with fiberoptic- We specialize in turnkey systems, sensing units and userfriendly including surface preparation, coating, Programmable Logic Controls (PLC). and curing, as well as material handling, wastewater treatment, Our systems are designed to pay for chemical recovery, controls, and themselves quickly, with low initial auxiliary systems. costs, the lowest operating costs, and the highest quality and reliability in the We design our e-coat systems to fit industry. into the smallest footprint possible and for the shortest installation time on site. They are designed to accommodate ovens on top or to the side, depending on available headroom. They are also designed to integrate easily into a variety of new or existing material handling systems. 4 SURFACE FINISHING: ELECTROCOATING Did you know that George Koch Sons designed and installed the 1st industrial e-coat system in North America??? For more than 40 years, we’ve worked with customers around the world to design, upgrade, or replace their e-coat systems. We are experts in the technologies involved: pretreatment, application, curing, wastewater treatment, chemical recovery, and control. We are also experts in bringing them together to meet your needs. We are founding members of The Electrocoat Association and proud of our three recipients of the prestigious Brewer Award for excellence and innovation in electrocoating technology. Our single- and dual-tunnel FRP and We design ovens to preheat, cure, metal pretreatment systems provide and dry to exact material, production, spray and immersion degreasing and quality requirements. Our ovens and metal conditioning. They can be include high-velocity convection, designed to accommodate oversized IR, high-velocity/IR, and black parts, fit into limited floor space, and be wall radiant systems. This includes operated in-line or manually. Our FRP overhead, side, or floor-mounted systems are highly resistant to ductwork, along with air filtration, heat chemical and mechanical damage, recovery and exchange, and control compatible with all solutions used for systems. All are designed to provide metal treatment, and easy to install and uniform part temperatures and maintain. consistent temperature curves. Our material handling systems are Founder & Member of the designed by a dedicated engineering group and include monorail, power and free, programmable hoist, DeBurgh™, Pacer™, chain-on-edge, flatline, and other conventional conveyor systems. 5 SURFACE FINISHING: POWDER COATING Since its introduction Our dry-off/cool- Our bottom entry/exit in North America in the down oven features curing ovens create their 1960's, powder has our exclusive, ceiling- own, natural heat seal, continued to be the mounted Propeller Fan which reduces operating fastest growing segment Oven (PFO), along with costs and eliminates the of the coatings industry. a sanitary conveyor need for an air seal that With our customers, we guard to reduce the risk can be difficult to control. have made significant of contaminants being Air seals also create air contributions to that deposited onto parts. movement over uncured growth from the Ceiling-mounted PFO’s parts, which is highly beginning. accelerate drying or inefficient in powder curing. They create very coating. As in e-coating, we high air turnover rates specialize in turnkey and ensure uniform part powder systems, temperatures at low cost. including surface preparation, application, curing, material handling, wastewater treatment, chemical recovery, controls, and auxiliary systems. This system features our technologically advanced FRP washer and a clean room for powder booths. 6 SURFACE FINISHING: POWDER COATING We’ve worked with customers around the world on powder coating systems for nearly as long as our e-coat systems. We are a member of the Powder Coating Institute, and we have long served as world leaders in the advancement of powder coating technologies and the expansion of their use. We can help you get the best powder system for your money. In the process, we can help you fully integrate your finishing system with the rest of your operations to reduce your operating costs and improve the quality of your products. Koch gas and electric IR Powder coating finishes Our KochSmart® Control ovens are designed for are durable and long- Systems provide precise rapid, uniform curing, lasting, resist chipping control of e-coat, liquid, and they are often used and scratching, and can powder, and flatline in systems handling be used to produce a finishing systems. They multiple colors that can wide range of surfaces, feature userfriendly, color cross-contaminate. They from smooth to wrinkled touch-screen terminals feature instant on/off to to textured. Overspray with PLC’s to automate, conserve energy, promote can be retrieved, monitor, and control clean operation, are small eliminating waste. finishing and auxiliary in size, and have a very Because far fewer VOC’s processes. They can fast temperature ramp are released, pollution handle everything from up. Fast ramp up raises control equipment can simple systems to the the surface temperature be eliminated in many most sophisticated, and of parts being cured to instances. they can dramatically polymerize, or gel, the improve process control, coating quickly. system reliability and Member of the functionality, and safety. 7 SURFACE FINISHING: LIQUID Liquid spray coatings Koch specializes in We have continuously are the oldest and turnkey liquid finishing advanced and refined most commonly used systems that include liquid coating technology technologies in the surface preparation, to enhance finish finishing industry today. high-efficiency down-draft performance, address water wash and side/ environmental issues, Low solids and high down draft paint spray and meet the needs solids, solvent-based booths, patented of our customers coatings are widely used recirculating air makeup for greatest uptime for finishing products and abatement systems, performance and low made from metal, spray booth retention life-cycle costs. plastics and wood. pits, and drying