Articles
Choosing Paint for Fast-Paced, Extra Slip, High Temp Applications
Many industrial applications require coatings that not only offer corrosion resistance and aesthetics, but provide additional attributes such as heat resistance and quick drying properties. This helpful clinic offers a few examples.
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Solar-Powered Photonic Cooling Enables Energy-Saving Coating
Passive cooling technology can reduce interior temperatures 5-13°C, offering weight, cost and CO2 benefits for cars, construction, aircraft and more.
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Advantages of UV-LED Spot Curing for Collision Repair
Carlisle Fluid Technologies’ Jacob Fortmeyer shares advantages, considerations and important equipment features for the UV-LED curing process.
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Rework and Recoating Powder
Powder coating rework requires more than just recoating the part. Products Finishing columnist and powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert discusses proper steps that should be taken to ensure a quality finish.
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ECOAT24 Attracts Both Serious Electrocoaters and Novices Alike
The conference, held April 2-4, 2024, in Orlando, Florida, provides the ecoating industry with educational sessions, supplier exhibits and networking with colleagues.
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Finishing activity contracted again in January, Closing at 45.5
Finishing activity has shown encouraging signs the past two months, the longest ‘stretch’ since starting to contract in April 2023.
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Changing From Liquid to Powder Coating
Will the powder coating perform better than your liquid system? Products Finishing columnist Rodger Talbert discusses considerations you should consider when making the switch.
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Looking Back: The Columnists
Many industrial/technical journals consist of a well-rounded mixture of technical papers, practical articles about technology and how-to-do-it features, including this one, Products Finishing. In its decades of publication, the AESF/NASF journal, Plating & Surface Finishing also endeavored to meet this need. Among the many features were those of the columnists, recognized experts who had expertise in certain segments of the surface finishing industry. This article contains a sampling of columns published in P&SF over the years, which still retain information of importance even today.
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Robot-Ready Grinding Systems for High-Speed Production
Advanced rotary surface grinders now come “robot-ready” to facilitate integration with third party robotic arms and fully automate the process from loading to unloading.
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Take Full Advantage of Industry Events
As travel plans ramp up for the year, what industry events will you attend? Products Finishing offers a quick look at some of the upcoming opportunities for 2024.
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Efficient, Innovative and Sustainable Component Cleaning for the Entire Production Chain
Whether degreasing, classic component cleaning or high-purity applications — the demands on cleaning solutions have increased in all areas of the manufacturing industry.
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