June 2011 ISSUE

June 2011 |

COVER STORY

Solving Adhesion Issues from Laser Cuts

Remove scale with a pretreatment solution.

FEATURES

Liquid Coating

2020 Vision: The Future of Coatings

The year 2020 will be here before you know it, signaling the beginning of a new decade and bringing changes to the world as we know it.

A Conversation With ... Jim Andrews, Pneu-Mech Systems

Andrews recently promoted to President

Electroplating

Alternative Bath Control Practice

Your finishing operations can improve quality and lower cost by a change from the standard process control practice to add material following bath analysis

Powder Coating

EPA Sets New Timeline on Oven Regulations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has set a schedule for issuing updated air toxics standards for boilers and certain solid waste incinerators as part of a filing with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

Powder Coating

Finishers can use free software to show that reshoring is about even to overseas

Finishing shops can show how keeping products in the U.S. is almost even to going overseas

Liquid Coating

New software helps designers pick "eco-friendly' finishes

Granta Design software helps products designers look at considerations of finishing processes such as painting, electroplating, and powder coating.

Anodizing

PEO coatings sparking new interest

Plasma electrolytic oxide surface treatment for aluminum, magnesium or titanium

Powder Coater Testifies Before U.S. Congress

Paul Belham, who owns Bell's Powder Coating along with his wife Nancy in North Attleboro, MA, testified June 20 before several U.S. Congressmen in Washington D.C. in support of Trade Adjustment Assistance Centers, which has lost funding for the 2012 federal budget.

Parts Cleaning