December 2016 ISSUE

December 2016 |

COVER STORY

Axalta Coating Systems Opens Powder Coating Learning and Development Center

Facility serves Axalta’s customers as well as those interested in learning more about powder coatings or advancing their application skills; classes are available in both English and Spanish.
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FEATURES

Powder Coating

80 Years Helping Finishers

Our readers share how Products Finishing has helped their careers as the magazine celebrates its 80th year covering the finishing industry.

Parts Cleaning

A Second Career in Powder Coating

Terence Reid and Walker Knox say they are working to continue the company's reputation for quality and customer service excellence built over two decades.

Anodizing

Anodizing Helps Yo-Yos Make a Colorful Comeback

One Drop Yo-Yos in Eugene, Oregon, is a leading high-end yo-yo manufacturer. It gets some of the 8,000 products it makes finished at Gruntbull Anodizing in Gettysburg, Ohio, whose splash anodizing process combines as many as six colors on the same part. The result is a piece of art.

Anodizing

Atotech Sold to The Carlyle Group for $3.2 billion

Carlyle, which also owns the Axalta Coating Systems brand, is a global alternative asset manager positioned in Asia, Europe and the United States through its significant range of investments.

Parts Cleaning

Axalta Coating Systems Opens Powder Coating Learning and Development Center

Facility serves Axalta’s customers as well as those interested in learning more about powder coatings or advancing their application skills; classes are available in both English and Spanish.

Powder Coating

Celebrating the First 80 Years

Oak is the traditional gift for someone turning 80 years old, as it symbolizes longevity and strength, two hallmarks of what we feel our magazine has been with the surface finishing industry since its debut in 1936.

Anodizing

Coating to Help Europe's Telecom Satellites Keep Their Cool

A surface coating originally developed for medical implants is set to safeguard the next generation of European telecom satellites.

Powder Coating

Greenkote Adds Major Anti-Corrosion Coating Capacity in Ohio

The company says that the added equipment will multiply current capacity by nearly two and a half times, enabling the Brook Park facility to process more than 150 tons of parts per month.

Parts Cleaning

John Cole Named UM-Dearborn 2016 CECS Alumnus of the Year

See the VIDEO; Cole has won both the State of Michigan’s Professional Engineers in Industry “Outstanding Engineering Award” and the Detroit Metro Chapter’s “Engineer of the Year” award.

Parts Cleaning

Made in Eastern Iowa: Ideal Industries Makes, Powder Coats Products

Manufacturer, powder coater featured in television station's KCRG "Made In Eastern Iowa" segment that focuses on manufacturing.

NASF Report: Dec. 2016

Joint initiatives by NASF and AIAG promote collaboration of surface finishing and automotive industries.

Powder Coating

NSA Industries Expands in Groveton

Fabicator and powder coater St. Johnsbury, Vermont is expanding operations to Groveton, New Hampshire and bringing at least 40 new jobs to a 73,000-square-foot facility.

Liquid Coating

PPG Donates Military Coatings, Window for EC-135C Aircraft Restoration

PPG donated a boom operator compartment side window and will donate military aircraft coatings to the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate in Ashland, Nebraska.

Electroplating

Praxair, GE Aviation Launch Joint Surface Technologies Venture

Focus will be on development, support and application of specialized coatings tailored for GE Aviation’s and CFM International’s current and future engine models,

Liquid Coating