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Paint Manufacturing at the Sherwin-Williams Plant Tour

Bob tours the Sherwin-Williams paint manufacturing plant in Winter Haven, Florida, and sees how paint is made with plant manager J.A. Samples.

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Paint Manufacturing at the Sherwin-Williams Plant Tour

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" All right Jason -- loading -- that -- this is where all the raw materials begin the process of making that statement what are those raw materials. We'll let the menu raw material basically. Basic ingredients. Aren't you drop pavement with your plane. -- I think him. Often they are lit liquid product now when they're liquid they're there mostly water. Water is one of the ingredients that you also have you often with the product that. That for the wall okay if properly so when I'm hearing is that that most of the solids are natural materials. And most of the liquid heat that water are man made -- in the chemistry that's enough. All right let nobody could figure out the back that way what you're planting which are putting together. We have a Cuomo with delta specifically everything goes into that will be the customers. That's it and a customer's specifications for example it easy living fate might that there might specify that they really want. Good idea that it really cover over a color like you're. Okay. That the typical bet that the the up pretty bad weather but filled of them assembled ready to move up into the manufacturing profit that I see in the next may overhear that there. Lifting up and other back. The actual mixing and all the bad stuff we're about the second -- saddened that the of them mezzanine level that that's going up of that."

" Okay this is where the real fun begins what's happening up here right through that. Or and state office. We're we -- in the pigment. In which the department of water and chemical. It I'm impressed by you know what this Bob I'll explain anything done this really. He -- employees haven't been -- partner back. This allows him up there plants that and Angela cut that want to look like me if that's what is the fact. We haven't got collector leg and heard that loud enough people. Now the pigment. Whenever the -- Opt out any pick -- That's how compact the paper backed it up right out over out of didn't -- now into -- there. It eliminates a lot of in. And the liquid has already been added where there aren't -- minute now what the other day. -- the -- outstanding statement Michelle Yeoh. "

" All right then. The second stage involved. Liquid right flat liquid. You bring a volume on the boat and from the thanks in the back that is correct but we've but let's put."

" We have our finished product rented it. It got thousands of gallons and a man haunted by about an -- That didn't like a good chemistry project in advance how do you make sure that he bat you can work. We have we pentagon laboratory equipment that's an extent okay."

" Well I'm testing a panel here that will use to test for color loss and hiding. Of the group product. All of these specifications for the product have to be met before we release that -- It certainly covers and I guess. That's the color of the client ordered right yes that's right OK well I'm curious to see how you spell those 5000 gallons and a one gallon cans. Okay let's -- look at next."

" We're able to break."

" But out of doors at an event that one part. They're Lou right at that they've been. Pretty. And then look at how they're. Turn from a horizontal commitment to a vertical position right now airlines. That is -- me. And then over here you got you know later it always got to think it. Our I don't want to ever run out any big break down at that he thought they can accumulate on that circular area. And here where you're actually -- Now the plastic in. Order to pick up he can control that air and all right so there are OK they're all -- that they break -- and then what happens over here. Wanted to. -- I didn't apply live where you have friends -- down and how how can you assure that each and every one of these had a gallon the paint in all of them. That we've got to fit why. For them play football or under the present. I got it."

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