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Anodizing is a conversion of the aluminum surface to a thicker, corrosion-resistant aluminum oxide. This site-within-a-site covers everything from chromic and sulfuric acid anodizing to hard coat anodizing articles, suppliers and products.

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Becoming an Approved Aerospace Anodize Supplier

Fabrication of aerospace structure requires rigorous standards due to the high cost of rework and the severe consequences of in-flight failure. To become a supplier for aerospace anodize, an approval process which is not readily understood must be followed. more(+)

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New Mexico School Features Eco-Friendly Anodized Walls
5/4/2012 Products Finishing: Bernalillo Elementary School achieves sustainable design goals using products by Linetec
Cyklos Building a Better Finishing Machine
5/1/2012 Products Finishing: Tornos rolls out its turnkey surface finishing machine, Cyklos, a self-contained apparatus that enables machining shops to integrate wet electrochemical or chemical surface processing into their manufacturing line. SEE THE VIDEO
Finding Lost Profits In Your Finishing Line
5/1/2012 Products Finishing: The finishing division of White Castle restaurants teamed with Profit Finders, a continuous improvement company specializing in data collection and analysis, to look at ways to increase process efficiencies.
NASF REPORT: Is EPA Playing Dirty With Chromium Data?
5/1/2012 Products Finishing: NASF’s Jeff Hannapel and Christian Richter point to major flaws, bad precedent in EPA chromium air rule. NASF leaders have submitted a 100-page package of comments to the EPA in response to the agency’s proposed rule for chromium finishing operations.
Sand + Snow Makes Pretreatment Essential
5/1/2012 Products Finishing: Polaris' finishing department made sure its cleaning and pretreatment process was doing the job right before they electrocoated and powder coated popular off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and military vehicles. SEE THE VIDEO

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