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- Back from the Brink of Finishing Death
- Alpha Metal Finishing is celebrating its 36th anniversary and, after battling the ups and downs of sales, coupled with tumultuous management practices and the untimely illness of company founder Bob Wood that almost forced the its extinction, the co...
Article Published: 11/1/2012
- Caterpillar Is Back on the Coatings Prowl
- Caterpillar has been developing and applying advanced wear coatings to extend the service life and performance of its machine components, whether new or remanufactured, for decades. Now Caterpillar’s advanced wear coatings are available to others th...
Article Published: 11/1/2012
- U.S. EPA Tightens Chromium Air Standards for Coatings
- NASF Highlights Weak Rationale to White House
Article Published: 10/1/2012
- EN-Boron Coatings Take Shine Off Hard Chrome
- In the search for the “next best thing,” some platers are turning to an electroless nickel bath with boron, often with remarkable success and outstanding results. Thus, the reintroduction of NiB as a cost-effective Chrome replacement.
Article Published: 10/1/2012
- Medical Coatings Can be the Cure for Plating Shops
- Medical Coatings Help Artistic Plating in Milwaukee Focus on the Future, and the transformation has also coincided with the emergence of John Lindstedt’s son, Matt, as the future leader of the company.
Article Published: 9/1/2012
- Gas And Oil Platers Are Striking Black Gold in Texas
- Houston Plating & Coatings and CEO Bill Howard are reaping the boom in oil and gas industry by running at capacity in its Houston plant, expanding capacity at its Humble plant by 50 percent, and building a new, 80,000-sq-ft plant in Louisiana that w...
Article Published: 8/1/2012
- NASF REPORT: SUR/FIN 2012 Excels in Las Vegas
- This year’s NASF conference in Las Vegas was said by many to be the “best SUR/FIN” they attended in some time.
Article Published: 8/1/2012
- Road Trip! ... to SUR/FIN Las Vegas!
- As the NASF SUR/FIN show gets ready to open in a few weeks in Las Vegas, Products Finishing magazine decided to take a ‘Virtual Road Trip’ across the U.S. to surveys job shops and platers to get a 'State of Finishing' status. It seems business is g...
Article Published: 6/1/2012
- Electrodeposition and Characterization of Nickel–Titania Nanocomposite Coatings from Gluconate Baths
- Ni-TiO2 nanocomposites with varying titania content were electrodeposited on copper substrates employing a gluconate electrolyte. The changes in microstructure and corrosion behavior of electrodeposited nickel with respect to titania addition were s...
Article: External Published: 10/24/2011
- Nickel Electroplating
- Nickel provides a decorative appearance because of its ability to cover imperfections in the basis metal (leveling). This deposit can be made brilliant and, when covered by a thin layer of decorative chrome, will maintain its brilliance even under s...
Article Published: 9/29/2011