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- An Introduction to Cyclic Corrosion Testing
- CCT is intended to be a more realistic way to perform salt spray tests than traditional, steady-state exposures. Here's a more realistic way to perform salt spray tests traditional, steady-state exposures
Article Published: 7/1/2012
- President’s 2013 Budget Proposes Enhanced Tax Incentives
- Finishing shop owners will be able to take advantage of most, if not all, of these proposed enhanced tax incentives.
Article Published: 7/1/2012
- Lean = Green for Reliable Plating Works/Elite Finishing
- The benefits of lean operations in the plating industry are well known. Here's a story on how a $12 million company, Reliable Plating Works/Elite Finishing in Milwaukee, saved more than $1 million.
Article Published: 6/25/2012
- 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
- Alternative Bath Control Practice
- Your finishing operations can improve quality and lower cost by a change from the standard process control practice to add material following bath analysis
Article Published: 6/1/2012
- Cyklos Building a Better Finishing Machine
- 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
Article Published: 5/1/2012
- 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
- 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
- Aerospace Drives More Calls for Non-Chrome Passivate Finishes
- More finishers are warming up to using non-chrome passivation as a way to satisfy customers who don’t want to use hexavalent chromium for corrosion treatment.
Article Published: 5/1/2012