FEATURES

Are Burn-Off Ovens Safe?

Steelman Industries’ Carlton Mann says burn-off ovens are safe, and he offers some considerations for installing one.

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Electroplating

Chicago NASF Midwest Sustainability Summit Coming in September

The featured speaker at the event in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, will be former F-100 fighter pilot and Vietnam prisoner of war Guy Gruters.

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Parts Cleaning

Cleanliness Compliance Is Critical for Automotive Suppliers

The cleanliness of a car’s components can affect the way it operates. OEMs like Ford Motor Co. have created their own internal standards and have started cascading them to their suppliers.

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Anodizing

Deoxidizing Aluminum as a Pretreatment

This important first step can help prepare the metal for subsequent surface finishing.

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Fluorinated Surfactants Is Top Issue at NASF Washington Forum

NASF Executive Vice President Christian Richter says fluorinated surfactants is emerging as the most critical issue for the surface finishing industry.

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Powder Coating

How to Achieve Good Grounding

Saying ground is important to proper and safe powder coating is an understatement, contends Parker Ionics’ John Cole.

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International Finishing and Coatings Summit

This event for manufacturing executives will be held in conjunction with the International ThermProcess Summit.

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Electroplating

Lincoln Industries Acquires Southwest Metal Finishing, Inventix Manufacturing

Southwest Metal Finishing offers decorative chrome plating and metal finishing; Inventix produces zinc and aluminum die castings.

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Electroplating

New Thermal Coatings for Spacecraft, Satellites Use Metamaterials

Metamaterial optical solar reflectors (meta-OSRs) are the first surface coatings on the outside of a spacecraft, designed to effectively radiate infrared heat away from it while reflecting most of the optical solar spectrum.

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Electroplating

Sky’s the Limit in Aerospace

California’s EME Inc. and its owner both have thrived, despite regulatory challenges.

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Powder Coating

Thin-Film Technology Powers Wisconsin Powder Coater

Basic American Medical Products uses a phosphorus-free pretreatment to improve first-pass-product yield and performance durability.

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Liquid Coating

Toledo's Owens Community College Offers Spray Finishing Training

The workshops, presented by Carlisle Fluid Technologies brands, are being held May 9-11,September 12-14 and November 7-9.

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Electroplating

Triumph Group Sells Off Metal Finishing Operations

Specialty aerospace investment firm Aerospace Systems and Structures and Valence Surface Technologies have purchased the company’s Triumph Aerospace Structures Long and Large (L&L) machining and metal finishing operations.

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Electroplating

Crack Formation during Electrodeposition and Post-deposition Aging of Thin Film Coatings - 7th & 8th Quarterly Report

This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the seventh and eighth quarters of project work (July-December 2017) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the University of Houston. The objective of the work is to study fundamental and practical aspects of crack formation in electrodeposited thin films.

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Electroplating

Historical Highlights of Electroless Plating

In a 1984 article in Plating and Surface Finishing, for the AESF 75^th anniversary year, Charles R. Shipley Jr. recounts the history of the commercialization of electroless plating beyond the discovery of electroless nickel by Dr. Abner Brenner and Grace Riddell at the National Bureau of Standards.  

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Electroplating

Reminiscences of Early Electroless Plating

The development of autocatalytic deposition was one of the most important developments in the history of surface finishing.  Here, in an article from Plating and Surface Finishing in 1984, the  AESF 75^th anniversary year, Dr. Abner Brenner, considered to be the “Father of Electroless Plating,” recalls why and how it came about.

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