The Powder Coating Institute has announced that Rodger Talbert will join the PCI team as Technical Director.  This newly created role is aligned with PCI’s goals to offer additional benefits to members by providing technical expertise and support to the entire industrial coatings market place.  As Technical Director, Rodger will act as the technical liaison between PCI and the market place, focusing on training and education.  With Rodger’s extensive experience and background in the coatings industry, PCI will now be able to offer technical guidance, market research, speaking and training, coating evaluation and testing, and much more.

Rodger began his career in coatings in 1976 working for a company that does custom coating and metal fabrication. He also worked for a company that designs and builds coating systems for seven years. He started his own business, R. Talbert Consulting Inc., in 1993.

As a part of his business he designed new systems for powder coating, liquid spray coating, and electrodeposition. He also has worked with coaters to improve existing systems through process improvement, retrofit, problem solving and training. These technical services will now be a part of his work with PCI.

Rodger has also done extensive teaching and training including classes in "Powder Coating" and "Finishing System Design & Operation" at Grand Rapids Community College, where he designed and implemented a Finishing Technician Certificate program and published six training manuals for paint pretreatment, liquid coating, electrocoating and powder coating classes. He is the editor of “The Powder Coater’s Manual” and he is a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Iowa Waste Reduction Center. He also conducts periodic training workshops in powder coating, liquid coating spray technique, and systems design.

Rodger’s background also includes writing and presenting numerous technical papers for SME/AFP, PCI and CCAI, He has contributed to the SME Design for Manufacturing handbook on the subject of powder coating and is a contributor to the PCI Powder Coating Manual, The Complete Finishers Handbook. He also wrote the Powder Coating chapter in the Manufacturers Handbook, published by McGraw-Hill and the Paint Technology Handbook published by CRC Press. Additionally, Rodger is a regular contributor to Products Finishing magazine and the Powder Coating Tough publication.

PCI Executive Director, Steve Houston, commented, "Establishing this technical infrastructure at PCI now allows us to offer service and support that will take membership value to a whole new level, and to have Rodger Talbert as our Technical Director is a tremendous bonus. This is exactly what the industry needs and PCI is very excited to bring these added benefits to membership as well as the entire industrial coating market place."

For more information, contact:

Jennifer Egan
Program Manager & Marketing Specialist
(832) 585-0770
jegan@powdercoating.org