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- Finding Lost Profits In Your Finishing Line
- 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.
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Sand + Snow Makes Pretreatment Essential
- 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
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- Shipshape Testing: Software Meets IMO PSPC Requirements.
- \New regulations apply to seawater ballast tanks of all types of ships of not less than 500 gross tonnage, and double-side skin spaces arranged in bulk carriers of 150 meters in length and upwards
Article Published: 4/1/2012
- Meeting the Critical Cleaning Challenge
- Today’s parts cleaning industry faces numerous challenges that can make the selection of an effective critical cleaning system difficult
Article Published: 4/1/2012
- Are Ionic Liquids Right for Your Parts Cleaning Job?
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Ionic liquids have also been considered for parts cleaning applications because of their negligible vapor pressure, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and low melting points of less than 100°C.
Article Published: 4/1/2012
- Taking It to the Max: Throughput changes that amount to 300% finishing improvement.
- When it comes to getting maximum throughput and optimal first pass yield from their finishing departments, Metalcraft of Mayville has quite a story to tell.
Article Published: 3/1/2012
- Military “STARs” Are Born With Paint Facilities
- The Yermo Annex Marine Corps. Logistics Base in California and the Corpus Christi Army Depot Aviation Center in Texas have acquired new systems to help train and enhance employees’ painting abilities.
Article Published: 2/1/2012
- A “Bizarre” Approach: Using Moisture to Cure CARC Coatings
- When veteran inventors Mike Bunnell and Daryl Bruischat put their minds together to build a better mousetrap for the drying and curing of waterborne CARC paints, they both hoped to come up with a system that might change the industry somewhat.
Article Published: 2/1/2012
- Just How Clean Is Clean?
- Most finishing consultants have lost count of the number of times that inadequate cleaning and pretreatment was the cause of defective painting or plating. Skip plating, blistering, delamination—these are just some of the commonly found defects caus...
Article Published: 2/1/2012
- Tackoff: In Pursuit of the Perfect Paint Job
- When it comes to today’s vehicles, a high quality paint finish is the first thing a consumer notices. The automotive industry is constantly improving its paint shop either by upgrading existing facilities or by building new ones to take advantage of...
Article Published: 1/1/2012
