PARTS CLEANING

Parts Cleaning

Properly Following Cleaning Protocols

Should suppliers use your technical cleanliness inspection procedure? Here’s a look at how three industry-standard requirements play together with customer-specific standards.   

Parts Cleaning

PPG to Acquire Coatings Application Services Provider The Crown Group

Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Crown has 950 employees and is one of the leading component and product finishers in North America.
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Parts Cleaning

Parts Cleaning Expo Visitors Get Look at What’s Ahead

Parts Cleaning Expo attendees review the 2017 trade show and technical conference and look ahead to PCx 2019 in Cleveland, Ohio. 

Parts Cleaning

Top Sales Trait Might Not Be What You Think

The essential qualities for success fall short without follow-through. 
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Parts Cleaning

How to Implement Ambient Temperature Cleaning

Q. How can we find an ambient temperature spray cleaner to implement for our five-stage pretreatment line used prior to powder coating? Cleaning expert David Peterson has the answer. 
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Powder Coating

AZZ Acquires Texas-Based Coater

Enhanced Powder Coating is a privately held, high-specification, Nadcap-certified provider of powder coating, plating and anodizing services based in Gainesville, Texas.
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Parts Cleaning

Former Products Finishing Columnist Carl Izzo Passes

Izzo was a paint consultant when he joined the magazine after spending a career as a scientist researching paints and coatings for Westinghouse and PPG.
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Parts Cleaning

How to Identify Substrate or Paint Defect

Q. Over the past several years we have had a coating defect anomaly randomly show up on painted parts...Cleaning expert David S. Peterson takes a close look at cleaning processes to identify the root cause. 
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Powder Coating

Jeff Hale Celebrates 30 Years at Gema

The current Marketing Director for Gema has held a variety of positions within the company, including engineering, project management, product management, territory sales and distribution sales.
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Electrocoating

BASF Invests $40 Million in Automotive Coatings in North America

The investments add capacity to the company’s production plants in Greenville, Ohio, and Tultitlan, Mexico.
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