FEATURES

Alpha Metal Finishing's Tyler Baxter Excels at Special Olympics

Baxter won medals in bowling at the Special Olympics World Games held in Abu Dhabi in March.

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Powder Coating

Axalta Receives Ducks Unlimited Award

The award recognizes corporations from the United States, Canada or Mexico that have made contributions to wetlands conservation and environmental stewardship.

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Electroplating

Beer Barrel Maker Improves Product Quality with Nitric Acid-Free Pickling Process

Absence of citric compounds also addresses the growing concern among beer brewers about residual flavors in the barrels.

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Electroplating

California AG Settles with Companies Selling Lead- and Cadmium-Tainted Jewelry

Five jewelry distributors sold jewelry containing excessive levels of lead and cadmium.

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Electroplating

Chemeon’s eTCP Offers Visual Verification for Coated Parts

Coating has safe trivalent chemistry and distinctive violet-blue hue.

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Anodizing

Dörken MKS Helps Petersglocke Bell of Cologne Cathedral Ring on High

Engineers apply the Delta-Protekt KL 170 RT to coat the mount.

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Electrocoating

Electrocoat Learning Management Goes Live

Users also have access to keynotes, panel discussions and workshop sessions from previous events, such as Boot Camp, Ecoat16 and Ecoat18.

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Powder Coating

Hartford Finishing Acquired by MiddleGround Capital

Hartford is one one of the largest industrial powder coaters in the Midwest and also a provider of electrocoating, wet painting and assembly services.

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Liquid Coating

Hentzen Coatings Add Power to Louisville Slugger

The new coating for Louisville Slugger’s MLB Prime wood bat offers the “secret sauce” of the updated 2019 version.

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Mechanical Finishing

How Physical Characteristics of Vibratory Bowls Affect Processing Efficiency

A look at how design characteristics affect machine performance, and which characteristics to consider when ordering a machine.

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Powder Coating

Infrared Ovens Offer Speed with Control for Liquid, Powder Coatings

Curing as much as 75% quicker should make any applicator give infrared ovens consideration.

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Electroplating

LeHigh Research Yields Hardest, Thinnest Coatings

Professors net NSF GOALI award to study ultra wear-resistant nitride films

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Electroplating

Makeover Reaps Rewards for New Mexico’s Theta Plate

Shop worked with New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a nonprofit that trains manufacturers in lean principles and value stream mapping.

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Parts Cleaning

Maximizing Cleaning and Rust Preventive Programs

Properly managed and controlled chemistry applied to the correctly designed aqueous parts washer is a formula for successful cleaning and corrosion resistance.

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Electroplating

NASF Honors Industry Accomplishments

National Association for Surface Finishing honored several in the industry with awards given out at the SUR/FIN trade show in Chicago in June.

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Electroplating

Pavco Opens New Headquarters, Labs and Pilot Center

North Carolina facility has 40,000 square feet that expands its research and customer service departments.

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Powder Coating

PPG Donates Coatings to Restore Flying Saucer in Mars

Coraflon air-dry system coatings to refurbish famous flying saucer that has been a fixture in downtown Mars, Pennsylvania.

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Mechanical Finishing

Precision Finishing Opens New Addition, Capabilities

A 40,000-square foot-finishing facility that was up and running in 2017 with new equipment, processes and capabilities from the previously constructed facility in 1955.

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Electroplating

Self-Induced Repair of Printed Circuit Boards

This is a re-publication of the 1992 AESF Gold Medal Award paper for best paper published in Plating & Surface Finishing in 1991.  It introduces a then-new technique for repairing near-opens (constrictions) in the wiring on printed circuit boards has been developed.

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Electroplating

Sifco ASC Receives Presidential Award for Exports

Secretary Ross says that Sifco ASC had more than 50% increase in export sales over the past four years.

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Electroplating

Surface Finishing in the 2000s - As Predicted in 1992

In the December 1992 issue of Plating and Surface Finishing, a series of articles was published, predicting the future of the global surface finishing industry in the 21^st century, then due to arrive in less than a decade.

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Electrocoating

The Cost of Not Cleaning

Too often, failures are attributable to inadequately removed contamination. 

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Electroplating

Toward Automatic Control of Nickel Plating Processes

Technological advances in electronics manufacturing and the design of automobiles have brought about a trend toward very narrow specifications and increasingly stringent requirements on the quality of electrodeposited layers of nickel.

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