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SUR/FIN Preview: Old School, Chicago Style
As we head to the Windy City for NASF’s SUR/FIN 2013, let’s take a look at some of the oldest continuous plating operations in Chicagoland.

Strengthening a Powder Coating Line
Fitness Equipment Maker Cybex Shapes Up Its System In Eight Days.

A.M. Metal Finishing Meets The Lockheed Standard
Orlando plating shop one of 70 to make Lockheed Martin’s Preferred Supplier list from 2,000 vendors

Game Planning Your Pretreatment Switch
How golf course equipment maker Jacobsen aced the conversion.

Recent Issue: May 2013

News Briefs

BASF Earns GM's Supplier of the Year Award

Report: EPA May Take More Than a Decade to Review Prioritized Chemicals

Small and Midsized Manufacturers Project Strong Revenues for 2013

New PPG Data Sheet Matches Powder Coatings, AAMA Performance Specs

State Chemicals Policy: Trends and Profiles

TCI Powder Coatings Announces New Staff Changes

Dürr Ecoclean Offers Local Authorized Service for USA Pump Rebuilds

Christian Ebbrecht Appointed Marketing Manager for Techevon

SVC Offers Online Course: Fundamentals of Vapor Deposition

Comments Needed For California Antelope Valley AQMD on Proposed AIM Rule Changes

Judge Affirms $81 Million Judgment Against Company in Hex Chrome Case

Columbia Chemical Receives GMW 4700 Type B, BL Approval

Industrie De Nora Group Presents New Business Unit

Brigitte Hervieux Appointed Industry Manager-Design for Enthone

Wilden Launches Paint & Coatings Website

PPG Acquires Deft’s Waterborne and Chrome-free Technologies

Sinetar to Lead Combined PPG North American Architectural Coatings Business

Dürr Builds Two Paint Shops in China for Changan Ford

NASF 1000, Surface Technology Initiatives Launched

End of the Line

A Conversation With ... Beth Gotthelf

Blog

NASF SUR/FIN to Host Global Manufacturing Panel

Q&A: Film Thickness Control

Q&A: Gap Size Specifications

Anodyne Receives Boeing C-17 Approval

BASF Develops Color For Shanghai GM Concept Car

Advanced Technical Finishing Continues $10 Million Renovation

The Crown Group Acquired By High Road Capital Partners

Finishers Descend on Washington

CCAI Finishing Pavilion At FABTECH Largest Yet

Finishing Touch

Dick Weston Glides into Retirement

Never Finished

KIRCHNER: Must-See TV: “Finishing: Impossible”

Exhibits & Display

Dual-Laminate Plating Process Tank

Transmitter Featuring Batch Controller Capabilities

Coating Thickness Measurement Products

Backflushing Filter System

Rectifiers for Hex-Chrome Replacement

Six-Way Titanium Anodizing Rack

Precious Metals for Plating

Chrome Purification System

Titanium Anodes for Cathodic Protection

Trivalent Passivate Technology

Waste Treatment Equipment

Wastewater Treatment Technology

Anti-Corrosion Coatings

Integrated Camera for XRF Analyzer

Stabilizer System for Electroless Nickel

Programmable Hoists for Wet-Dip Processes

Direct-Acid Copper Plating on Plastics

Surface Finishing Solutions

Metal Finishing Management Software

Acid Zinc/Nickel Process

Mixed-Metal Anode Coating

Mirror-Like Electroplating Alloy

Spin Dryers

Immersible Thermoplastic Pumps

Aluminum Deoxidizer

Metal Cleaner

New and Used Rectifiers, Equipment

Electroless Nickel Process for Heavy Metals

Heat Exchanger Tubing for Severe Environments

Dimethylamine Borane for Electroless Metal Deposition

PLC-Based Rectifier System Controller

Stainless Steel Electropolishing Process

Wet Process Stations

Corrosion-Resistant Basecoat

Disc Filtration Systems

X-Ray Instruments for Measuring Thickness

Barrel Coating Device

Equipment for Small-Parts Plating

Zinc Nickel Alloy Technology

Cross-Flow Filtration Module

Copper Bus Bars and Rods

Fusing Tank Liner System

Triple-Push Plug for Threaded Holes

“Green” Hoist That Reduces Exhausted Air

Drop-in Tank Liners

Filtration System

Work Order Management Software

PFA- and PTFE-Encapsulated Electric Heaters

Plating Barrels, Rinse Tanks

Overhead Hoist Systems

Used Finishing, Waste Treatment Equipment

PFOS-Free Fume Suppressants for Plating

Benchtop Coating Thickness Gage

Filter Presses

Centrifuge Parts Washers

Nickel Recovery System

Titanium Coils for Heating/Cooling Baths

Plating Machinery

Non-Chrome Corrosion Protection Coatings

Electric Immersion Heaters

Anodes for Trivalent Chromium Plating

Hex-Chrome Control Services

Low-Lead Tin Anodes

Chemicals for Metal Finishing

Chromium-Free Adhesion Promoters

Electrocoagulation Wastewater Treatment

Direct-Fired Hot Water Boiler

Eco-Friendly Paint Strippers

Specialty Chemical Solutions

Thickness Testing Equipment

Chrome Mist Scrubber

Zinc Plating Processes

Value-Adding Coatings

Polypropylene, Stainless Dipping Baskets

Multiple-Module Rectifier Tower

New Products

SCS Thermal Cure System Uses Forced Convection Heat

BYK-Gardner Software Enables Lab Analysis of Color, Effects

Oxford Instruments Mobile Spectrometer Measures Metals

Graco Dual-Control Electric Drive Pumps Deliver Consistent Finishes, Energy Cost Savings

Grieve High-Temp Cabinet Oven Bakes Paint Samples

Kita Gold Plating Offers Increased Surface Hardness

No-Phosphate Soak Removes Buffing Compounds

Rex-Cut Quick-Change Discs Remove Welds, Break Edges

Walter 1-mm Cutting Wheel Suited for Thin Metal

Norton Non-Woven Products Provide Improved Finishes, Cutting Rates and Wear Life


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