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- 2020 Vision: Powder Coating
- After more than 50 years, powder coatings are still viewed favorably in the finishing world as an industry that collaborates with manufacturers to reduce our environmental footprint and foster sustainability.
Article Published: 5/18/2011
- Tumbling to the Finish
- The Flow-Clad system of coating smaller parts at higher production rates uses a tumbling method not usually found in many custom coaters. “I just don’t think too many people even know that this process exists,” says president Bob Zimmerli. “It will ...
Article Published: 5/1/2011
- Getting a Good Finish Begins with a Great Start
- Virtually all metal parts and many plastic parts have some sort of finish applied to them. These finishes are applied to improve appearance, increase corrosion resistance and enhance wear resistance.
Article Published: 3/2/2011
- Be All You Can Be
- For fabricators, the finishing line is just the beginning of a new era in today's market. The days of simply cutting, bending and welding metal components into assemblies and delivering them to a customer in two to three weeks just don't exist anymo...
Article Published: 3/1/2011
- Benefits of Powder Coating
- If you’ve done your homework, carefully analyzed your options and decided to use powder coating as a surface finish, where do you start?
Article Published: 3/1/2011
- Seeing Inside Nooks and Crannies for Auto Corrosion Protection
- Fischer Technologies (Windsor, CT), a manufacturer of coating thickness, material testing and material analysis instrumentation, has introduced a new, non-destructive flexible probe which they say can get inside normally inaccessible cavities to get...
Article Published: 12/23/2010
- Life-Saving Finishes Spur Medical Coater
- It’s a Catch-22 for Craig Walters, president of Premier Finishing in Stockton, CA, as he watches cabinets coming off his paint line and knows it will be populated with kidney dialysis control equipment and will be used by someone in dire need.
Article Published: 11/13/2010
- 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
- Nordson: Keep on Truckin’
- The Raymond Corporation knew it wanted the latest technology available. The question was a little more complex: liquid or powder for its coating applications.
Article Published: 9/1/2010
- Into the Fire
- We tag along as an inspector 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