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Parts Cleaning

Choosing the Right Aqueous Cleaning Operation

For most machining processes, water-based solutions can be applied using tailored technologies for specific applications.

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Electroplating

Control Electropolishing Corp. Celebrates 58th Year

Owner Nancy Zapata says that ever since it started 58 years ago, CEC’s goal has been to provide exceptional customer satisfaction in quality, performance and reliability.

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Powder Coating

Diamond Vogel Plans Expansion for Peridium Powder

Manufacturing of Peridium Powder Coatings is planning to add 91,000 square feet to its Orange City, Iowa plant to more than double its size.

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Liquid Coating

Dürr and Kuka Introduce Jointly Developed Robot System

Companies have developed an integrated solution for automated paint application in the form of a compact robot for the use in the general industry.

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Liquid Coating

Hosco Wins Michigan U.S. Small Business Award

Hosco receives the Michigan Small Business Exporter of the Year. Tom Murray, president and CEO of Hosco Fittings, received the award for the company.

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Electroplating

Microfinish Acquires Roc Industries in Belleville, Ill

Micofinish has more than 240,000 square feet of facilities in Saint Louis, and has more than 450 customers throughout the Midwest and around the U.S.

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Electroplating

NASF Report: June 2017

NASF invites top policy analysts and keynotes to the Washington Forum, and the industry gears up for the Sur/Fin Manufacturing and Technology Trade Show and Conference.

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Electroplating

One-Layer Zinc Flake Base Coat for Fastener Protection

Atotech’s silver inorganic zinc flake base coat eliminates the need for a second coat.

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Parts Cleaning

Optimizing Aqueous Cleaning Requires Proper Design and Maintenance

A well designed and proactively managed aqueous washer system provides premium performance.

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Electroplating

Replacing Hex Chrome for Aerospace Applications

A collaboration develops between NASA and the European Space Agency to test and evaluate coating systems as replacements for hex chrome coatings in aerospace applications.

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Electrocoating

VIDEO: Gloria Ender Receives Beckwith Distinguished Alumni Award

Gloria Ender, owner of Freedom Finishing in Benton Harbor, Michigan, will receive the award at the Lake Michigan College commencements on May 7.

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Electroplating

Production Schedule Driven Automated Energy Management

Surface finishing line process automation systems are normally designed to optimize production throughput and assure compliance with operating parameters such as time-in-tank. The basic elements of automated energy management on process lines are control of energy consumption in active, standby and inactive states, primarily by ventilation, heating and cooling, agitation and filtration. This paper presents a case study of the new process control model.

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Electroplating

The Nature, Cause and Effect of Porosity in Electrodeposits: A Microscopic Examination of Nickel-Chromium Coatings after Atmospheric Corrosion

This paper is one of seven reports constituting AES Research Project #13, dealing with the nature, cause and effect of porosity in electrodeposits, performed at the then-National Bureau of Standards, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. It was one of several seminal articles produced through AES Research during the height of the automotive/decorative segment of the surface finishing industry in the 1950s and 60s.

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