#AEROSPACE

Electroplating

Sky’s the Limit in Aerospace

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

Electroplating

Valence to Add Phosphoric Anodize, Bond Primer in SoCal

The Garden Grove location was founded in 1980 and specializes in anodizing and precious metal plating for the aerospace, satellite, RF microwave and telecommunications industries. 
#aerospace

PPG Spray Speeds Cure Time of Aerospace Sealants

PPG’s Pro-Seal 815M is designed to be sprayed onto freshly applied polysulfide aerospace sealant to improve aesthetics and cut surface cure time.
#curing #aerospace

Liquid Coating

Chrome-Free PPG Aerospace Coating Qualified to SAE Standard

PPG’s CA7088 integral fuel tank aerospace coating has been qualified to SAE International’s Aerospace Material Specification AMS-C-27725, Type 3, Grade 2.
#aerospace

Electroplating

Valence Wichita Receives Approvals from Boeing, Bombardier

The Kansas facility now holds hardness and conductivity approvals from Airbus, Cessna, Spirit, Boeing and Bombardier. 
#aerospace

Chemetall Earns 4th Consecutive Airbus SQIP Award

This “Accredited Supplier” status acknowledges sustained quality and delivery performance, strong continuous improvement, and a customer-oriented approach, the company says.
#aerospace

Mechanical Finishing

Blisk Finishing System Cuts Processing Time

Walther Trowal’s CM rotary vibrator finishing system eliminates manual operations and is said to cut the processing times for finishing blisks for airplane and land-based turbines from several days to a few hours.
#aerospace

Powder Coating

Electrocoat Primer Takes Off in Aerospace

PPG’s Aerocron electrocoat system tops our list of the finishing products highlighted in 2017.
#aerospace

Electroplating

Roy Metal Finishing Plans $60M Expansion

RMF supplies parts to BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg, and Bosch and Daimler Chrysler - Sprinter Vans in the area. Pazdan says the company is also speaking with Volvo about suppling its parts and is looking to branch out into the aerospace industry as well.
#aerospace #automotive

Electroplating

George Koch Sons Acquires Jessup Engineering

Jessup is a Rochester Hills, Michigan-based company with more than 45 years experience providing automated finishing systems to the aerospace, automotive, industrial and agriculture industries.
#construction #aerospace #automotive

Electroplating

Evaluation of Hexavalent Chromium Free Bond Primers for Aerospace and Defense Applications

Three hex chrome free bond primers demonstrated that they can surpass the 960 hour threshold before exhibiting panel corrosion away from the scribe.
#military #aerospace

Anodizing

Study Reveals Finishing Industry Barriers to Phasing Out Cadmium

Sifco conducted the survey, which they say was done to gage the industry knowledge of about speculation that the U.S. aerospace industry will phase out cadmium by 2023.
#aerospace #masking #pollution control

Electroplating

VIDEO: Indiana's Imagineering Finishing Technologies Works on Boeing's $4.2B Spacecraft

Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation, CST-100, is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, which aims to resume U.S.-based flights to space.
#aerospace #pollution control

Electroplating

Replacing Hex Chrome for Aerospace Applications

A collaboration develops between NASA and the European Space Agency to test and evaluate coating systems as replacements for hex chrome coatings in aerospace applications.
#aerospace

Liquid Coating

Chemetall Receives Highest Airbus Award for Third Time

Only four out of a total of 68 strategic key suppliers of Airbus have received this "Accredited Supplier" award in 2016.
#aerospace

Liquid Coating

PPG Coatings Selected by Airbus for A350-1000 Launch Aircraft

A PPG low-density fuel tank and fuselage sealant provides the three flight-test aircrafts with weight savings compared with traditional sealants and will be used on production A350-1000 airplanes to benefit operators.
#masking #aerospace #pollution control

Electroplating

Aerospace Finishing’s Race to the Moon

In our 80th year, a look back at how finishing helped NASA-led space projects.
#aerospace

Liquid Coating

PPG Donates Military Coatings, Window for EC-135C Aircraft Restoration

PPG donated a boom operator compartment side window and will donate military aircraft coatings to the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate in Ashland, Nebraska.
#military #aerospace

Anodizing

ASETSDefense Workshop 2016: Sustainable Surface Engineering for Aerospace and Defense

Workshop on Sustainable Surface Engineering for Aerospace and Defense will be held at Shades of Green, the Armed Forces Recreation Center at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando from December 6-8.
#military #aerospace #sustainability

Electrocoating

PPG Inaugurates Electrocoat Primer Pilot System in France for Aerospace

This is PPG’s second significant investment for an Aerocron ecoat primer installation, increasing global application capability for customer education.
#masking #aerospace #education