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- NASF REPORT: Is EPA Playing Dirty With Chromium Data?
- 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 operation...
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- EPA One Step Closer to Finalizing New Emission Standards
- Attorney and environmental expert Anthony Giuliani explains the EPA's new chromium rules due in 2012, which would amend the existing National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Emissions for hard and decorative chromium electroplating a...
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Is Lean and Green Possible in the Finishing World?
- Is it possible to be both lean and green in the finishing world? Lean manufacturing says that money spent on resources for any goal other than the creation of value is wasteful and should be eliminated.
Article Published: 3/1/2012
- The EPA’s Common Sense Initiative and Its Legacy on the Finishing Industry
- The Common Sense Initiative was the centerpiece of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s much-touted regulatory reinvention in 1994. Called a “bold experiment,” the EPA developed the Common Sense Initiative to address claims that its regulatory...
Article Published: 2/1/2012
- Recovery/Recycling Methods for Platers
- Over the last several years, lower business volume combined with higher material costs have increased pressure for metal finishers to reduce costs.
Article Published: 9/29/2011
- Closing the Cleaning Loop
- To help optimize its solvent vapor degreasing process while minimizing solvent exposure in the workplace and the environment, Miba Bearings US uses Dowper SVG double-stabilized perchloroethylene in the Safecare system from Safechem North America LLC...
Article Published: 9/1/2011
- Army Reducing HAP and VOC Ouput
- New program wins DOD award, saves $1B
Article Published: 7/1/2011
- Pollution Control and the Plating Industry
- A metal finishing consultant looks at the present state of affairs in a dynamic, constantly changing and increasingly controversial area - pollution control in the plating industry. The social, political, economic and technological aspects of the p...
Article Published: 4/6/2011
- An Innovative Approach to Filtration (Without Aggravation)
- Filtration without aggravation is the key to designing any system needed to effectively remove contaminants from a finishing solution.
Article Published: 2/18/2011
- Ovens: Into the Fire
- Products Finishing magazine decided to tag along with an inspector as he crawled his way through a 29-year-old e-coat cure oven to show specific examples on how to improve the its performance.
Article Published: 9/1/2010
