John Murphy from TopCoat Coatings has been in the powder coating business for 7-8 years. He decided to move his company into Bluestone Business Park approximately three years ago.

TopCoat offers a range of finishing services including paint stripping, shot blasting, acid cleaning, etch priming, powder coating and polishing.

Brian Hunter from MPact helped John to organise a working structure for his staff and rearrange the yard so that items could be coated and returned to customers in a more efficient timescale. The JWMT funding was a huge investment for TopCoat as they were able to buy a large generator to operate the machines from, which in turn means they now operate 24 hours a day. This has been a significant development for the business model.

TopCoat has supplied products all over the world from bars in New York, to football stadiums in England and casinos in Las Vegas. They are extremely ecofriendly with no USOs given off in the powder that they work with.

Their future plans are to continue expanding the business and begin a shift rota workforce so that business runs 24/7.