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Electroplating

40-Under-40: Innovation Drives Young Apple Engineer

Sowmya Laxminarayanan has been deeply involved in both quality and process engineering roles across multiple product platforms such as tablets, computers, phones and watches.

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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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Liquid 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

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

Chicago Midwest Chapter of NASF Leadership Summit and Golf Outing

The Chicago Midwest Chapter of NASF will host a Leadership Summit and golf outing August 21-24 at Pheasant Run Resort in Saint Charles, Illinois.

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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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Powder Coating

New Monitoring and Controls in Coating Line Help Morton Industries Thrive

System monitors and controls temperature, conductivity, pH, pressure, conveyor status and tank levels.

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Anodizing

Noble Aerospace Now Parent Company of Embee, All Metals

Embee Processing and All Metals Processing were named Products Finishing Top Shops in 2019, and have become leaders in the aerospace finishing industry.

 

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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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Electroplating

PFAS and the Surface Finishing Industry

NASF and its member companies have a long history of environmental stewardship, especially when it comes to PFAS.

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Liquid 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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Electroplating

Electrocodeposition of MCrAlY Coatings for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications - 5th Quarterly Research Report

The objective of the work is to study and optimize the MCrAlY electrocodeposition process to improve the coating oxidation/corrosion performance. In this quarter, work focused on preparation and characterization of CrAlY-based alloy powders for the planned research activities in Task 2: The Effect of CrAlY Particle size on CrAlY Particle Incorporation.

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Electroplating

Evaluation of a Simple Thin-Film Ductility Tester and Review of the Ductility of Nickel Sulfamate Deposits

Originally published in 1992, this paper addressed a critical issue in the science of electroforming, that of the measurement and control of deposit ductility.

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Electroplating

The Relationship Between Vickers Hardness and Universal Hardness

The Vickers indenter hardness test, based on indenter displacement under test load (universal hardness), is being used for an increasing number of applications.  The new method is also subject to much discussion among the experts.  An important question is the relationship or the degree of correlation between the new universal hardness test and the classic Vickers hardness test.

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