Co-operative Plating Hires New Technical Director
Travis Johnson brings 8 years of plating shop lab experience to the position.
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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IHEA 2024 Annual Meeting
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association’s 2024 Annual Meeting will be held at the DeSoto Hotel in Savannah, Georgia, from March 20 – 22.
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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Interpon Helps Aluminum Coating Business with Sustainability
DFV is partnering with AkzoNobel Powder Coatings to keep the business out in front by using an Interpon powder coating technology that can make aluminum look like wood.
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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Company Announces Color of the Year
Axalta Coating Systems’ 2024 Global Automotive Color of the Year is Starry Night.
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.
Ronatec Establishes Warehouse in Los Angeles
The facility has received approval from both the Department of Justice and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Two Companies in Metal Processing and Coating Services Announce Rebrand
Metal Processing International and Oklahoma Custom Coating, two companies in the metal processing and coating services, have rebranded as ecoat.us, while maintaining same ownership.
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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Kolene Corp. Appoints New V.P. of Research and Development
Dr. Louis R. Pignotti joined Kolene in September 2012 as a senior research chemist, and progressed through the lab to chief chemist in January 2016 until his recent promotion.
Bodycote Expands Its Medical Market Reach with Acquisition
Bodycote has acquired Lake City Heat Treating, based in Warsaw, Indiana, and is a medical market provider of hot isostatic pressing (HIP) and vacuum heat treatment services.
Chemeon Celebrates 10 Years
Over the past decade, the company has been at the forefront of developing safer MIL-DTL qualified alternatives to the known carcinogen hexavalent chrome.
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.
3 Tests to Ensure Parts are Clean Prior to Plating
Making sure that all of the pre-processing fluids are removed prior to plating is not as simple as it seems. Rich Held of Haviland Products outlines three tests that can help verify that your parts are clean.
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NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #122: Electrochemical Approaches to Treatment of PFAS in Plating Wastewater - 10th Quarterly Report
The NASF-AESF Foundation Research Board selected a project addressing the problem of PFAS and related chemicals in plating wastewater streams. This report covers the 10th quarter of work (April-June 2023). Here, we examine the effect of surface fluorination of Ti4O7 anodes on PFAS degradation performance in terms of energy performance as well as formation of chlorate and perchlorate when chloride is present in the solution. The full paper on this work can be accessed and printed at short.pfonline.com/NASF24Feb2.
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Axalta Receives International Sustainability and Carbon Certification Plus
This milestone further reinforces Axalta’s commitment to ensuring sustainability remains central to every part of its business.
Ceramic Abrasives Optimized for Long Life
Walter Surface Technologies’ Smart Resin technology, found in bonded abrasives, works to expose fresh ceramic grains at the optimal moment to achieve the most productive balance between sharpness and life in a metalworker’s given application.