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Houston Plating & Coatings H ouston Plating & Coatings was founded in 1988 in South Houston, Texas to provide electroless nickel plating services to energy equipment manufacturers. In subsequent years additional corrosion and wear protection finishing service lines (phosphate, a wide variety of corrosion protection spray coatings and salt bath nitriding) were added to satisfy the majority of product finishing requirements of energy equipment OEMs. The company added a second plant in Humble, Texas in 2008, and now has 155 employees. Current executives include William Howard, CEO; Eric Turner, COO; Albert Landois, Vice President of Production; and Tim Foster, Head of Maintenance. The company seeks to employ supply chain principles for the majority of its customers, which include companies from industries as diverse as firearms manufacturers and power generation manufacturers in addition to oil field equipment OEM’s, to differentiate itself from the typical job shop operation.
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18 IMD DECEMBER 2021
HP&C has been named one of the top 50 companies for both plating and coating in North America for 4 years, and in 2020 was named the overall best coating company. HP&C positions itself as a ‘one-stop-shop’ for customers’ corrosion and wear protection needs offering an exceptionally broad range of plating and coating services with Ni-side TM a new, patent pending process for nickel plating high pressure gas cylinders. HP&C is new to the Industrial Gas Industry so the revenue at this point is negligible. However, discussions with industry executives lead the company to conclude that there is a significant volume of cylinders that need to be plated annually, so HP&C are expecting it to become a significant part of their revenue stream in the coming years. In previous years, the availability of plated cylinders has been limited, but HP&C’s processes dramatically improved that, so they are expecting that the overall use of plated cylinders will increase
