Integrated Services Offered in Multiple Locations
The Ceramic Industrial Coatings factories have both production and filling capabilities, and we specialize in custom colors and applications. Our vast capabilities allow us to serve a wide variety of customers in a super regional area throughout the Midwest.
Osseo, Minnesota Facility
- Headquarters, technical operations, supply chain
- 90,000 SF manufacturing facility and warehouse
- Color and stain matching laboratory
- Product development and testing laboratory
- Multiple production units for liquid dispersions and milling
- Automated custom color and stain production
- Multiple specialty filling lines
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENTS:
Liquid Batch Making
Custom Colors
Filling & Packaging
Kansas City, Kansas Facility
- 52,000 SF manufacturing facility and warehouse
- Color and stain matching laboratory
- Automated custom color and stain production
- Multiple specialty filling lines
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENTS:
Liquid Batch Making
Custom Colors
Filling & Packaging
Custom Color Production
Both of our facilities offer industry-leading automation and responsive and accurate color and stain production.
- Fully automated dispensing machines for colors and stains
- Separate machines for each product line
- Used for color matching and production orders
- Industry leading color tolerances ( DE < 0.3 CMC typical)
- Dedicated color match technicians
Expert Capabilities
Liquid Batch Production Mixing, Dispersion and Milling
Multiple mixing tanks for paint and liquid chemical production.
Portable Mixer Tank Production
- Multiple mixers for portable tanks
- Batch sizes 50 to 400 gallons
- Used for large batches of colors
Large Fixed Tank Production
- Numerous fixed production tanks
- 500 to 2,200 gallons
- Used to make larger batches of paints and stains
Milling
- Multiple immersion mills ( 50-200 gallons)
Contract Packaging & Filling
From 1-ounce sample touch up bottles to pails and drums. Solvent and water-based options.
- Bottles – plastic and metal bottles
- Cans & Pails – metal and plastic
- Drums and Totes
- Metal tubes
- Plastic tubes
- Cartridge and caulk tubes
- Flexible pouches and towelette wipes
- Inert gas filling for moisture cure products
- Blister packing
- Induction sealing
Quality & Technical Support
On-site chemists and technical service people to help with customer application and product development.
- Quality control laboratory with variety of testing equipment and capabilities
- Technical chemists for product modification and sales support
- Application and performance testing capabilities
- Robust proven scale-up process for new product introductions
Business Support & Onboarding Process
Ceramic is structured to be a full-service supplier for contract (toll) manufacturing.
- Contract Business Manager to manage Contract Customers – from project review, quoting, onboarding, scale-up and future orders
- Scale-up team consisting of Operations Management, Quality Manager, Process Engineer, Chemists and Production
- ISO 9001:2015 Onboarding Procedures which include RM safety screening, laboratory sample batches, QC testing alignment, scale-up and, pre- and post-production checklists
