“Except for occasionally changing the filters, the products are mostly maintenance-free,” said Fick. “The products are very good quality and KAYCO is a very easy company to work with.”
Similar to Osage Ambulances’s focus on paying close attention to customers’ needs, Fick has found KAYCO Spray Booths has a similar business outlook. Started in 1978 by Bill and Kay Fowler, KAYCO Spray Booths is a family company, owned and operated by their son-in-law and daughter, Chuck and Carol Koenen.
The company prides itself on manufacturing its products using high-quality materials and hardware. The KAYCO line of products offers a standard line of equipment, such as spray booth configurations, paint mixing rooms, limited finishing stations and accessories for automotive and industrial applications. This includes cross-drafts, down-drafts, filter booths and truck booths.
KAYCO also offers build-to-order products, which allows the company to determine the style and size of booth that will fit the application best.
“If a customer had a product that is unique in size, we can build the booth to accommodate that,” said Chuck Koenen. “With Osage, for example, the ambulance bodies are a little larger than the typical automotive booth dimensions can fit and we were able to design and build the booth to those dimensions.”
The newest booth is a side exhaust down draft configuration. Osage’s building layout required the heater to be mounted behind the booth. Koenen said this flexibility made fitting the booth into the existing space possible.
As a production facility, Fick said Osage Ambulances probably sprays more paint in a day than a body shop will in a month because of the size of the ambulance bodies and many customers requesting striping on their custom ambulances. Typically, the booths are used four days a week, 10 hours a day.
“In that time period, just with the bodies that we’re painting, we’re running through probably 20 bodies a month,” said Fick.
He and his employees have been very impressed with the dependability of the spray booths, which has helped them stay on track with deliveries.
By working with a professional company like KAYCO Spray Booths, Fick said it enables Osage Ambulances to provide a high-quality product to customers across the country that is second to none.
“In the process, we keep our dealers and customers happy, which sets us apart from our competitors,” he said.
KAYCO Spray Booths
800-529-2640
La Vernia, TX
kaycospraybooths.com
Facebook: @Kayco-Spray-Booths
Twitter: @KaycoSpray
Instagram: @kaycospraybooths
YouTube: @kaycosprayboothsinc.8058
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Abby Andrews