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Overcoming Nickel Plating Problems
Is it your solution? Or might it be something else?
Coating Heat Sensitive Substrates Can Expand Your Business
Today’s smart business owners are looking for ways to grow their businesses, or at least move into more lucrative markets that will provide better returns. The ability to coat heat-sensitive substrates can provide this opportunity. Ultraviolet (UV) coatings are often used on heat sensitive substrates because UV curing is an inherently low temperature process. Here’s a look at how UV coatings on heat sensitive substrates can be used to improve your business...
Automotive Applications of UV-Cured Coatings
UV technology is considered by many to be the “up-and-coming” technology for curing industrial coatings. Though it may be new to many in the industrial and automotive coatings industry, it has been around for more than three decades in other industries...
Powder Coating: Keeping Racks Clean
Every electrostatic powder coating shop has to find a way to remove powder buildup on racks and fixtures to maintain electrical conductivity. Finishers typically have two options: outsource the cleaning or install in-house stripping...
RadTech International North America’s upcoming e|5 Technology Expo & Conference hopes to shed some light on the increasingly popular ultraviolet and electron beam technologies...
UV-Curable Basecoats and Clearcoats for Automotive Lighting
With the influx of plastic into automotive lighting in the early 1980s, a fresh market for coatings quickly emerged.
Mass Finishing for Delicate Parts
Ever since the first Roman soldiers tossed their armor into a barrel full of water and river stones to shine it for battle, mass finishing has played a major role in efficient post-production surface improvement.
UV Coating Technology on the Rise
According to Products Finishing magazine’s UV Coating Technology Awareness Survey, ultraviolet curing is gaining increased acceptance in today’s finishing job shops...
Dealing with Employee Complaints
The knowledgeable supervisor sees a gripe for what it really is—a chance to be of help to an employee when that help is most wanted, a golden opportunity to prove to a worker that his problem is management’s problem.