"We started using e-coat when it first came out," said Mark Lien, sales and marketing manager for Outokumpu Heatcraft, Grenada, Miss. "It was introduced to the HVACR industry at the AHR Expo that was held in Philadelphia in 1998.
"Mike Powell from AST ElectroFin had been telling us for a year that they had a new process coming out that would revolutionize coil coating," Lien said. "We were already an occasional user of their traditional coatings and when they introduced it at the show, we agreed to try it."