FEATURES

Anodizing

Anodizer Heads West to Get to the East

Southern Aluminum Finishing branches out to the Western U.S. and Asia. The new facility will help service its growing list of customers in the Western and Mountain regions of the U.S. and in Canada, as well as to take advantage of overseas orders from the Pacific Rim.

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Parts Cleaning

CCAI Adds On-Line Educational Videos on CCAI TV

This new feature is available to everyone free until December 1 on the CCAI website. The educational presentations are designed to provide information and understanding on a variety of finishing technologies.

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Powder Coating

Coater is Getting Healthy in California’s Central Valley

Advanced Industrial Coatings specializes in medical and food service finishes. The company’s 50,000-sq-ft plant contains a conveyorized powder coating line capable of handling massive amounts of coatings, and an environmental and climate-controlled area for scientific applications.

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Electroplating

Curtis Metal Finishing Expands Illinois Location

$4 million expansion includes cutting edge equipment for a new line of surface finishing materials; expansion will create 14 new jobs, boosting the firm’s Illinois workforce of 60 by 23 percent.

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Anodizing

Linetec Expands Anodizing Facility, Increases Capacity, Grows Staff

Wisconsin company is building a 30,000-sq-ft addition to their anodize facility in Wausau and increasing the anodize staff by more than 10 percent.

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Anodizing

Louisiana Plating & Coatings Opens New 80,000 Sq. Ft. Plant

Plant is now providing Louisiana area industries a variety of corrosion protection services, including salt bath nitriding, phosphate, spray coatings and electroless nickel.

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Electrocoating

MySetta's New Styling With Clever BASF Technologies

A specially developed two-tone finish was applied to the microcar at BASF Coatings’ Refinish Competence Center in Münster by experienced master spraypainter Michael Wichmann using blue for the lower part of the car and white for the top.

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Platers Go Back to School to Help Future Engineers

Milt Stevenson of Anoplate Corp. in Syracuse, N.Y., wants more finishing shops to become part of this program that pairs the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) with collegiate engineering and technology students.

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Parts Cleaning

Powder Coater Is Fencing Out The Competition

With the help of Reliant Finishing Systems, a Texas fabricator uses U.S.-built powder coating equipment to compete against foreign imports.

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Electrocoating

Take the Paint Efficiency Audit

Achieve cost savings through more efficient finishing operations. As finishing operations look to stay competitive in an increasingly global economy, it’s no surprise that efficiency has become a popular topic.

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