FEATURES

Anodizing

AAC Student Poster Awards Announced

Reliant Aluminum Products contributes scholarships for students with winning posters; Students engaged in materials science, bioengineering, nanotechnology, electrochemical technology, corrosion science, and related engineering disciplines presented their work.

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Parts Cleaning

BASF and Nissan Announce Streamlined Painting Processes

Supplies Nissan with coating solutions from e-coat and basecoat to clearcoat; also working on more streamlined technologies with Nissan in emerging markets such as China.

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Bringing You the Future of Coatings with PVD

Products Finishing partners with Society of Vacuum Coaters

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Electroplating

Columbia Chemical Participates In "Manufacturing Road Show"

200 students participated in the program and spent the day touring two of the five local manufacturing facilities in Brunswick and Valley City.

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Parts Cleaning

Drawn to Closed-Loop Cleaning

For Gem Manufacturing of Waterbury, Conn., meeting customer quality standards is critical to the success of the business. Part of that means removing the synthetic and water-soluble drawing lubricants used in Gem’s transfer and progressive presses, as well as any other contaminants that could have a detrimental impact on performance.

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Electroplating

Global Ceramic Coatings Market Worth $5.98B In 2013

Emerging market demand for various consumer items indirectly increases demand for ceramic coatings, and as the need for cost-effective solutions for ceramic coatings to improve productivity and efficiency of machining equipment grows in importance.

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Electroplating

In Mechanical Finishing, All That Glistens Is … Or Is It?

Surface finish types for commercially supplied stainless steel sheet are detailed in various standards. ASTM A480-12 and EN10088-2 are two; BS 1449-2 (1983) is still available, although no longer active. These standards are very similar in that they define eight grades of surface finish for stainless steel. Grade 7 is “buff polished,” while the highest polish—the so-called mirror polish—is designated Grade 8

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Anodizing

Just Peachy in South Carolina as Palmetto Plating thrives on ingenuity, automotives

More than 1 million of them pass through tanks each year at Palmetto, which specializes in anodizing, black oxide, chromate conversion coatings, decorative and hard chrome, electroless nickel, pickling, and passivation.

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Parts Cleaning

Mechanical Vapor Recompression Evaporation

MVRE is underutilized in the treatment of industrial wastewaters that are typical of metal fabricating and finishing industries. Increasing energy costs, rapidly decreasing freshwater resources, and growing sensitivity towards the environmental impact of industrial management practices are the driving forces in the development of more sustainable technology.

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Liquid Coating

More Environmental Cases are Going Criminal

Surface finishers and others operating in industries highly regulated by federal, state and local environmental protection agencies have seen an increase in the number of violations that have escalated from administrative notices of violations and fines, or even civil penalties, to criminal prosecutions

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Anodizing

Q&A: Purple on Platinum-Plated Anodes

Is there any way to remove a purple compound off our platinum-plated titanium anodes so they can be reused?

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Liquid Coating

Q&A: Spray Gun Flow Rate Problem

Q. We have problems achieving consistent paint flow through our spray guns (typical rates range from 10 to 50 g/min).

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Powder Coating

Questions and Answers for Pretreatment Options

Are you aware of any uncomplicated, user-friendly pretreatments that are compatible with powder coating, will inhibit rust on surfaces with deep inset corrosion and will accelerate beneath the coating after the process is complete?

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Anodizing

Reliant Aluminum Products Promotes Industry Use of Aluminum

Company produces several videos that promote the use of aluminum in the manufacturing process, as well as an advocacy video for several aluminum trade groups.

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Liquid Coating

StandardAero Gets Certification for Protective Coatings

Eight of its aircraft paint technicians have completed the Embry Riddle Aeronautics University/Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) program in aircraft painting.

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Parts Cleaning

Waterborne painting process is a first at South Carolina BMW plant

PPG launched the first use of waterborne compact paint technology in a U.S. automotive manufacturing plant at the BMW assembly plant in Spartanburg, S.C. This painting process has turned out to be a 2012 award winner and has opened up a new way for auto manufacturers to go leaner and become more efficient in their operations.

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Electrocoating

White Stays Atop the World’s Car Color Ranks

White/white pearl dominates the global automotive color popularity ranks for the second consecutive year, according to the 2012 DuPont Automotive Color Popularity Report. Black/black effect moves into second place

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