April 2012 ISSUE
Graco, Gema Combine Pending FTC Review
Deal with FTC allows powder business closing despite investigation into liquid
FEATURES
ElectroplatingApple's New iPhone 5 Could Have Hi-tech 'Liquid Metal' Finish
Alloy is a mix of titanium, nickel, copper and zirconium, and said to feel as smooth as glass.Electroplating
ASK THE EXPERT: Solving 'Sandpaper Finishes' in Plating
What happens when after the process is completed, the plating has the feel and look of sandpaper, and you must have a bright, smooth finish?Powder Coating
Debugging A Powder Coating Line
Faced with an adhesion issue, a manufacturer of aluminum fence and rail products set out to find the solution to their problem, even if it meant taking apart his line components one-by-one.
Parts Cleaning
Dubois Parent Company Acquires Galaxy Associates
Riverside Company adds Galaxy to its existing ownership of specialty chemicals and solutions.Electroplating
Enthone Finalizes A Brite Company Acquisition
A Brite will continue to do business with its name and as an Enthone distributor.Electroplating
Film Thickness Measurement: Questions and Answers
What is the proper gage to measure coating thickness of zinc plating? Also, what gage is the right one for powder coating and manganese phosphating?Powder Coating
Five Market and Industry Trends in Surface Finishing 2012
Consider market and industry trends, and modify strategy to take advantage of themPowder Coating
General Motors Names BASF As 2011 Supplier Of The Year
BASF receives honor for the eighth time in 10 yearsLiquid Coating
Graco, Gema Combine Pending FTC Review
Deal with FTC allows powder business closing despite investigation into liquidElectroplating
Hard Chrome Plating Questions and Answers
Our company plates hard chrome on hydraulic rods as well as other parts. For many of these parts we apply a flash chrome plate prior to plating with hard chrome. Is there any rule of thumb as to whether we should be using a current density of 2-4 ASI?Electroplating
Hempel Wins Technology Award for Wind Turbine Coatings
Frost & Sullivan’s Best Practices Awards honor achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service and strategic product developmentAnodizing
Hockey Slapshot Reaches 110MPH With New Metal Coating
See the VIDEO of the two-armed robot that can repeatedly send pucks flying through the air.Powder Coating
KIRCHNER: 5 Trends In Surface Finishing
Consider the following finishing industry trends and the opportunities they create in our marketsElectrocoating
Navy Trims Ship Painting Protocols
9 significant changes to painting protocol during shipbuilding in a pilot project to increase efficiency, save money.Parts Cleaning
New Engines Drive Parts Cleaning Innovation
When Cummins began designing its new operations at its Indiana plant, the company made the decision to not skip over the small details, which included making sure that its parts cleaning and deburring were just as sophisticated as its machining operations.
Liquid Coating
Parts2clean 2012 Will Be Oct 23-25 in Stuttgart
10th Leading International Trade Fair for Industrial Parts and Surface CleaningElectroplating
Phil Meier To Recieve Chicago AESF Geldzahler Award
Castle Metal Finishing’s Meier will be honored at the AESF Board Meeting on April 12.Electrocoating
Solving Wide-Body E-Coat Immersion Problems
Altec Industries in Burnsville, N.C., a manufacturer of heavy truck bodies and related equipment, added e-coat to its finishing operation and—through the proper design and execution of an electrocoat/liquid spray topcoat paint system —addressed issues of e-coating large truck bodies.
Electroplating
Super Finishing: ‘Micro Machining Process’ Vital To Medical Industry
Using high-precision tools and technologies that smoothes a surface—or even intentionally leaves specific controlled amounts of roughness behind—MMP is unlike any treatment on the finishing market.Electroplating
Shipshape Testing: Software Meets IMO PSPC Requirements.
\New regulations apply to seawater ballast tanks of all types of ships of not less than 500 gross tonnage, and double-side skin spaces arranged in bulk carriers of 150 meters in length and upwards
Tim Pennington: There’s No Business Like ‘Show Business’
Tim Pennington: A Conversation With ... Eric Jones, Col-Met Spray Booths
Optimizing Compound Flow Rates
Correct Coating for Outdoor Use
Salt Crystals on the Paint Film
ASK THE EXPERT: Powder Coating Color Change
The Mobile and Static Exposure of Decorative Nickel-Chromium Deposits
Corrosion-Current Data for Nickel-Chromium Couples
Electroplating of Zinc-Base Die Castings in a System Incorporating Dual Chromium