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Anodizing

Aerospace Drives More Calls for Non-Chrome Passivate Finishes

More finishers are warming up to using non-chrome passivation as a way to satisfy customers who don’t want to use hexavalent chromium for corrosion treatment.

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Liquid Coating

AkzoNobel Shows Color, Passion Of Furniture Finishes In Italy

Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan gathers people coming from all over the world to attend one of the most important furniture-making events

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Electroplating

EPA One Step Closer to Finalizing New Emission Standards

Attorney and environmental expert Anthony Giuliani explains the EPA's new chromium rules due in 2012, which would amend the existing National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Emissions for hard and decorative chromium electroplating and chromium anodizing tanks by lowering the existing NESHAP limits for both existing and new sources.

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Anodizing

Finding Lost Profits In Your Finishing Line

The finishing division of White Castle restaurants teamed with Profit Finders, a continuous improvement company specializing in data collection and analysis, to look at ways to increase process efficiencies.

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Electrocoating

Metal Processing International Earns Texas Award

Company honored for keeping jobs in Texas.

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Electroplating

NASF Bright Design Challenge Selects Scholarship Winners

Leonard Takata, Yuyol Lee, Minwoo Song and Andrew Bianchi win scholarships

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Liquid Coating

NASF REPORT: Is EPA Playing Dirty With Chromium Data?

NASF’s Jeff Hannapel and Christian Richter point to major flaws, bad precedent in EPA chromium air rule. NASF leaders have submitted a 100-page package of comments to the EPA in response to the agency’s proposed rule for chromium finishing operations.

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Anodizing

New Mexico School Features Eco-Friendly Anodized Walls

Bernalillo Elementary School achieves sustainable design goals using products by Linetec

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Powder Coating

PCI Executive Director Rodger Talbert Steps Down

Leaving June 1; also giving up role as PCI Technical Director.

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Parts Cleaning

PPG Aerospace Coatings Create ‘All Black’ Livery For Air New Zealand

Aircraft honoring world champion rugby team wear ‘green’ PPG coatings

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Liquid Coating

PPG wins 2012 Automotive News PACE Award for B1:B2 wet-on-wet paint system

8th time PPG has received the award, which honors automotive suppliers’ innovations in products, manufacturing processes and information technology.

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Electrocoating

Sand + Snow Makes Pretreatment Essential

Polaris' finishing department made sure its cleaning and pretreatment process was doing the job right before they electrocoated and powder coated popular off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and military vehicles. SEE THE VIDEO

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Electroplating

Taiwan Surface Finishing Industry Up 13% Last Year

Study shows market is NT$163.5 billion (about US$5 billion)

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Powder Coating

Masking for Surface Finishing

Masking is employed in most any metal finishing operation where only a specifically defined area of the surface of a part must be exposed to a process. Conversely, masking may be employed on a surface where treatment is either not required or must be avoided. This article covers the many aspects of masking for metal finishing, including applications, methods and the various types of masking employed.

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Electrocoating

Cyklos Building a Better Finishing Machine

Tornos rolls out its turnkey surface finishing machine, Cyklos, a self-contained apparatus that enables machining shops to integrate wet electrochemical or chemical surface processing into their manufacturing line. SEE THE VIDEO

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Liquid Coating

PPG Industries, AkzoNobel Launch New Aerospace Coating Products

The Aerocron primer from PPG’s aerospace coatings group is the first e-coat primer for airframe manufacturers and subcontractors; AkzoNobel’ Metaflex SP brand is a result of a two-year partnership between AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings and Pantheon Enterprises

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