FEATURES

Anodizing

AnoStyle Offers Anodized Color Options For iPhone, iPad

AnoStyle in Rochester, MI offers the service for $249 per phone with about a one-week turnaround time. The company says its closest competitor, Colorware, is charging $850 for the service.

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Anodizing

Hard Lessons in Hardcoating

Michael Kelner decided in 2007 to invest in a hardcoat aluminum anodizing shop in Minneapolis, despite having no coating experience whatsoever. Today, after investing more than $4 million and 10 months after construction started, Kelner has new equipment in a relocated and refurbished facility.

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How ‘Transparent’ Is Graphene, Researchers Ask?

MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids — except in extreme cases.

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Anodizing

NASF Bright Design Challenge Kicks Off Jan. 16

Kick off in Detroit is scheduled for January 16. The event is timed perfectly for the Detroit Auto Show, and the NASF Board will also be meeting in town to fully support the event.

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Anodizing

NASF REPORT: NASF Collaborates with Canadian Finishers

The CASF “Forum” conference in Toronto provided an informative overview of compliance issues and emerging regulatory issues. Also: NASF coordinating with Nickel Institute on nickel salts, metals data.

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Electroplating

nCoP Takes the Hex Out of Chrome Plating

Electrodeposited nanocrystalline cobalt-phosphorus (nCoP) has emerged as a viable environmental alternative to hard chromium coatings for both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) applications. The coatings’ material properties revealed that nCoP has high hardness, enhanced ductility, lower wear rates, superior corrosion resistance and no issues with hydrogen embrittlement after baking.

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Parts Cleaning

PPG Using Selectively Strippable System For RAF

RAF has taken delivery of the first Airbus Military A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport aircraft painted with high-solids Desoprime CF/CA 7049 chromate-free primer, F565-4010 selectively strippable intermediate coat, and high-solids Desothane HS/CA 8200 series military and defense topcoats.

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Electroplating

SFCHINA2012 Attracts 10,000+ To Guangzhou

With China has become the world's biggest finishing market, organizers say the 25th edition of the China International Exhibition for Surface Finishing & Coating Products Nov 28-30 was well attended.

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Anodizing

Sifco Applied Surface Concepts Group Acquired by Norman Hay Group

Sifco ASC brand is one of the largest manufacturer and supplier of process equipment and associated chemicals for selective electroplating and anodizing. It also has its own subcontract process operations across the U.S. and Europe.

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Parts Cleaning

There’s No Stopping This Powder Coating Line

McCain Manufacturing recently dramatically expanded its facilities to 100,000 sq ft to increase and improve its powder coating and finishing operations with a new automated conveyor that was installed along with a large-scale batch powder coating system.

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Anodizing

Triumph Group Acquires Aerospace Finisher Embee Incorporated

Embee employs approximately 400 people, and offers high velocity oxy fuel, anodize/hard anodize, paint, chrome plating, shot peen and cadmium plating.

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Electroplating

History of Chromium Plating

A review article originally printed as Plating & Surface Finishing, 71 (6), 84-91 (1984) on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the American Electroplaters Society.

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Mechanical Finishing

Grinding Out a Polished Finish

Enerquip installed a special two-head OD polisher built by Grinding and Polishing Machinery of Indianapolis, Ind., a specialist in designing and building industrial grinding and polishing machinery. It uses the stainless pipes for the sanitary-grade shell and tube heat exchangers it designs and manufactures for the food, dairy, beverage, pharmaceutical and biotech industries in the U.S. and internationally.

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