Listen "Shop Profile: Ken Hoffmann, Palm Springs Plating"
Episode Synopsis
Ken Hoffmann was enjoying his life in luxurious Palm Springs, California when the call came that made him take a more serious tone about his life goals. He had worked in the construction business, in the restaurant industry, and even was a sommelier for a time in the glitzy Coachella Valley of California. Life was easy and fun more than 30 years ago for the married father of two.“I was moving along fine in my life, and my wife called me one day telling me she was pregnant,” Hoffmann recalls. “I can remember it like it was yesterday. I had to really find a business, and I talked to a guy who was a commercial realtor, and he turned me onto a plating shop.”Of course, Hoffmann knew absolutely nothing about the finishing industry.Read the full article at https://finishingandcoating.com/index.php/plating/1667-palm-springs-plating-looking-forward-to-trivalent-transition
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