energy

Liquid Coating

Upgrading Paint Booth Lighting

Light-emitting diode (LED) lights can offer significant advantages in a paint booth, including energy savings, sustainability and safety.

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management

Revenge Is Best Not Served at All

Take the anger, hurt and resentment that arise when you feel you’ve been wronged in a business situation, and turn it into positive energy.

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energy

Barn Door Hardware Maker Installs New Powder Line in Larger Facility

Goldberg Brothers anticipates a 30 percent boost in efficiency with the new powder system and a 15 percent reduction in energy consumption.

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Liquid Coating

Energy Coatings Withstand Time, Corrosion

The Z-Pex multi-layer system battles harsh oil and gas chemicals.

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Benchtop Analyzers Handle Complex Parts, Ultra-Thin Coatings

Hitachi High-Tech Analytical Science’s benchtop FT110A and FT150 energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analyzers can be used for measuring a range of metal finishing and electronics applications.

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basics

How to Make Automotive Paint Shops More Sustainable

Q. Our paint shop is the place of highest energy consumption and highest VOC and CO2 emissions in the car manufacturing process. What measures can be taken to reduce them?

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management

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

Iron Tungsten Alloy Plating with Low Friction and Wear Resistance

The modern automotive industry has been striving to reduce energy loss caused by friction. An alloy plating film developed by finely crystallizing iron and tungsten demonstrates both a high level of hardness and excellent ductility. In addition, low friction can be achieved by its application under a layer of lubricant. It also has the merit of greater cost performance as compared with DLC produced with PVD technology.

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curing

Liquid Coatings Clinic: Considerations When Purchasing a Spray Booth

Q. Our company is in the market for a new spray booth and has been looking at several options. We want to make sure it is energy and cost efficient. What should be considered in the design of a spray booth to capture paint overspray?

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energy

Innovance Acquires Minnesota's Mass Finishing, Inc.

Mass Finishing is a supplier of high-energy centrifugal barrel finishing machines, media, compound, supplies, and services.

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At-line and in-line instrumentation.
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At-line and in-line instrumentation.