FEATURES

Anodizing

Apple Launches iPhone 7 with New "Rotational 3D Polishing"

Watch Apple chief design officer Jony Ive's video at the event that highlights a new anodized finish demonstrating a polishing called "rotational 3D polishing."

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Parts Cleaning

Aqueous Cleaning Solutions Drive Safety and Profitability

The change to technologically advanced, environmentally friendly cleaning solutions can support a safer, more sustainable and more profitable workplace.

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Parts Cleaning

CCAI's SoCal Chapter's Toys For Tots Golf Event Helps Marines

This year the chapter is aiming for 600 toys for the U.S. Marine holiday program after collecting 523 last year.

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Liquid Coating

Data-Driven Coater Uses Technology to Improve Finishes

Iowa’s Co-Line is a Top Shop that uses analytics to improve efficiencies.

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Parts Cleaning

Parts Cleaning: The Basics of Bases and Acids

Small changes in the pH of a cleaning bath can make the difference in achieving effective cleaning.

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Parts Cleaning

Powder Coating Clinic: Avoiding Rust on Parts

Q. We apply lighter colors of powder to our ticket machines for parking lots.

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Parts Cleaning

Powder Coating Clinic: Discoloration of Metal-Flake in Powder

Q. We have a metal-flake silver powder color that we use regularly. If the surface is abraded with a Taber wheel—or even a pencil eraser—it darkens significantly in the abraded area. We even have this problem when our parts scrape against cardboard packaging. Our supplier suggested we switch from an unbonded leafing aluminum to a more expensive bonded product. We tried the bonded leafing aluminum, but we still have the same problem. Certain types of friction create this effect, seemingly those that perhaps have a higher coefficient of friction. Do they remove the aluminum flake from the surface? Can you explain this problem and tell us why it happens with some abrasives and not with others? What can we do to stop this? 

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Parts Cleaning

PPG Inaugurates Electrocoat Primer Pilot System in France for Aerospace

This is PPG’s second significant investment for an Aerocron ecoat primer installation, increasing global application capability for customer education.

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Electroplating

SRG Global Celebrates New World HQ with Opening Ceremony

The new facility, which opened this summer, is a 51,000-square-foot building currently housing more than 250 employees.

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Liquid Coating

Toefco Expansion Adds 20,000-Square-Foot Coating Facility

Adding to its already operating two overhead conveyor lines with more than 400 available coating specs, Toefco increased both its capacity and capabilities with the addition of a new 20,000-square-foot, high-capacity, high-temperature coating facility.

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Powder Coating

Tower at PNC Plaza with PPG Coatings Earns Architectural Award

Inner and outer curtain walls incorporate metal framing finished with Coraflon Sunstorm fluoropolymer powder coating in "mica gray", which meet or exceed AAMA 2605 specifications.

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Parts Cleaning

Ultrasonic Technology Takes Tool Cutter beyond the Same Old Grind

New agitation pre-cleaner helps remove more oil and dirt while shortening cycle time.

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