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NASF Bright Design Challenge Selects Scholarship Winners
5/22/2012 Products Finishing

Leonard Takata, Yuyol Lee, Minwoo Song and Andrew Bianchi win scholarships

Aerospace Drives More Calls for Non-Chrome Passivate Finishes
5/1/2012 Products Finishing

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.

Cyklos Building a Better Finishing Machine
5/1/2012 Products Finishing

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

Aerospace Sector Plans Rebound
5/1/2012 Products Finishing

Aerospace is our featured topic this month in Products Finishing magazine, and one of the pressing issues facing those who make their living off of contracts from the military and aerospace companies is the health of the industry. Last fall, the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers wrote to President Obama in order to help preserve the aerospace and defense industry and its workforce from the substantial downsizing that defense budget cuts would bring. But Craig Hanriot, president of leading aerospace metal finisher Technical Metal Finishing in Burbank, Calif., says the plea to maintain defense spending may have been too little, too late. He says the culmination of the Iraq war, Afghanistan military activities winding down and a huge national debt were enough for the U.S. Congress to cut military spending by $350 billion over the next 10 years.

ASK THE EXPERT: Solving 'Sandpaper Finishes' in Plating
4/30/2012 Products Finishing

What happens when after the process is completed, the plating has the feel and look of sandpaper, and you must have a bright, smooth finish?

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