VIDEO: Parts Cleaning, Plastonics, Bales, and Asterion

This is the top news from the finishing world for the week of April 10, including:

• The Parts Cleaning Conference that just completed in Cleveland at the Precision Machining Technology Tradeshow, and our Angela Osborne gives a quick look at some of the activities.
• Plastonics, a third-generation coating company in Hartford, Connecticut, that was founded in 1959 by Robert Zimmerli Sr., is celebrating its 60th anniversary.
• Bales Metal Surface Solutions has enhanced its in-house lab capabilities.
• TAB Industries has launched a new powder coating division.
• In our On The Move segment, Pneu-Mech Systems appointed J.B. Graves as special project manager.
• Our Tech Tip of the week is Asterion's Roger Sowinski on increasing bath life and quality of trivalent passivates in zinc plating.
• The Innovation of the week is Vitracoat's hand-held spectrophotometer that offers faster response times.

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