FEATURES

AkzoNobel Powder Coatings Receives Innovation Award

Haworth 2011 Supplier Innovation Award for developing its Interpon F2010 furniture product/technology

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Liquid Coating

An Introduction to Cyclic Corrosion Testing

A more realistic way to perform salt spray tests.

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Liquid Coating

CCAI Honors Chapters User of the Year; Elects New Board

Sam Woehler from George Koch Sons will be new CCAI President; Kevin Coursin of KMI Systems is VP; and Ron Lum from Coral Chemical is Secretary/Treasurer

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Electroplating

Circle-Prosco Plans New $4.3M Facility

Manufacturer of specialty chemicals for the metal finishing industry will expand its current operations into a new location in Bloomington, adding 11 new jobs by 2015.

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Powder Coating

Co-Cure to the Rescue For A-Coat and Powder Coating

Henkel’s autodeposition protection technology is an alternative vehicle coating, as Android hopes to produce 9,000 vehicles this year for Florida-based Vehicle Production Group.

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Find A MEP In Your Area

The Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) is a catalyst for strengthening American manufacturing – accelerating its ongoing transformation into a more efficient and powerful engine of innovation driving economic growth and job creation.

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Powder Coating

Fixing Fish Eyes When Powder Coating Over Electrocoat

We powder coat wheels that come into our facility with an e-coat finish already applied. Recently, we have started getting fisheyes in every batch after we apply the powder coat over the e-coat.

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Powder Coating

FTC Requires Graco to Sell ITW Liquid Finishing Equipment Businesses

The Federal Trade Commission will require Graco to sell the worldwide liquid finishing business of Illinois Tool Works and ITW Finishing under a proposed order as part of a settlement. It will resolve charges that its $650 million acquisition of several ITW businesses would have been anticompetitive and led to higher prices and reduced innovation for the North American manufacturers who rely on this equipment.

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Electroplating

Hyundai Downplays Reports About Anti-Rust Zinc Coating

Reports say company provided zinc coatings only to vehicles sold for overseas markets, and did apply apply the anti-rust protection to cars sold in its country.

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Electroplating

Lean = Green for Reliable Plating Works/Elite Finishing

The benefits of lean operations in the plating industry are well known. Here's a story on how a $12 million company, Reliable Plating Works/Elite Finishing in Milwaukee, saved more than $1 million.

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Powder Coating

Mighty Hooks' Bruce Bryan Honor With CCAI's James F. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award

Bryan recognized for his years of dedicated service to CCAI serving as the Northern Illinois Chapter president and treasurer, as a National Board Director and National President

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Parts Cleaning

Powder Coating Training Class is Aug. 14-15

Parker Ionics hosts PCI training course in Westland, Michigan

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Liquid Coating

President’s 2013 Budget Proposes Enhanced Tax Incentives

Finishing shop owners will be able to take advantage of most, if not all, of these proposed enhanced tax incentives.

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Electroplating

Roy Metal Finishing Invests $2.6M In New Building, Land in Piedmont, SC

Largest electroplating firm in the Southeast says it plans expansion; also purchases 10 acres for further expansion

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Anodizing

SIFCO ASC Featured on FOX Business Network

“Manufacturing Marvels” segment on The Willis Report on FOX Business Network. The episode airs Friday, July 27 from 9:00-10:00pm EST.

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“True Black” PVD Coating Has Arrived

After 10 years, Vapor Technologies says it has hit the mark with the world’s first true-black advanced “low-temperature arc vapor deposition” (LTAVD) coating.

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Powder Coating

Measuring Up On Coating Thickness

Fischer Technology’s DataCenter software eases measurement requirements, giving reasons why management guru W. Edwards Deming said: “If I had to reduce my message for management to just a few words, I’d say it all had to do with reducing variation.”

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