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Electroplating

Apple'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.

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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?

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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.

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Parts Cleaning

Dubois Parent Company Acquires Galaxy Associates

Riverside Company adds Galaxy to its existing ownership of specialty chemicals and solutions.

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Anodizing

Enthone Finalizes A Brite Company Acquisition

A Brite will continue to do business with its name and as an Enthone distributor.

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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?

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Electroplating

Five Market and Industry Trends in Surface Finishing 2012

Consider market and industry trends, and modify strategy to take advantage of them

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Powder Coating

General Motors Names BASF As 2011 Supplier Of The Year

BASF receives honor for the eighth time in 10 years

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Powder Coating

Graco, Gema Combine Pending FTC Review

Deal with FTC allows powder business closing despite investigation into liquid

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Electroplating

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?

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Powder Coating

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 development

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Anodizing

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.

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Anodizing

KIRCHNER: 5 Trends In Surface Finishing

Consider the following finishing industry trends and the opportunities they create in our markets

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Liquid Coating

Navy Trims Ship Painting Protocols

9 significant changes to painting protocol during shipbuilding in a pilot project to increase efficiency, save money.

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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.

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Anodizing

Parts2clean 2012 Will Be Oct 23-25 in Stuttgart

10th Leading International Trade Fair for Industrial Parts and Surface Cleaning

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Electroplating

Phil Meier To Recieve Chicago AESF Geldzahler Award

Castle Metal Finishing’s Meier will be honored at the AESF Board Meeting on April 12.

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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.

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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.

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Liquid Coating

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

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