2019 Finishing Hall of Fame Inductees
Class includes Frank Altmayer, Arthur Brace, Ken Kreeger, Marc LeBaron, Ray Lucas, Joseph Manzoli, Jerry Poll, William Safranek and Don Snyder.
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Phosphates: How They Impact Your Discharge
This presentation starts with an overview of the element phosphorus and its uses, which ultimately lead to eutrophication of our water supply.
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Cyanide Destruction: A New Look at an Age-Old Problem
Cyanide in mining and industrial wastewaters has been around from the beginning, including electroplating processes. This presentation reviews a number of current processes, and in particular, offers new technologies for improvement in cyanide destruction by the most common process, using sodium hypochlorite.
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Innovative, Hybrid Functional Coatings for Aluminum and Titanium Substrates
This paper describes a low cost alternative coating technology for light metals that electrodeposits an engineered thin-film coating which bonds tightly to the substrate and provides excellent corrosion and wear resistance along with superior electrical and thermal performance. As a new process, this technology offers a stable, low-cost option to manufacturers and applicators seeking to improve and extend their use of light metal substrates.
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Direct Copper Metallization of Aluminum: Elimination of Zincate
This article discusses the development of a new copper plating bath that can deposit high ductility copper metal directly on a wide range of aluminum alloy substrates. The process is particularly important for general metal finishing companies looking to plate aluminum parts for aerospace industry.
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Finishing Shops Celebrate Top Shops Awards in Unique Ways
As we get ready to open the next survey to determine which finishing operations will be crowned the 2019 Products Finishing Top Shops, we look at how previous winners have celebrated the honor.
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Technology Advancements for Select Key Hard Chromium Applications
This paper presents recent industry specific hard chromium technology advancements such as meeting the needs of the automotive and hydraulic industries. Examples for additional improvement potential are shown to simplify the operation and make hard chromium plating even more reliable in its specific needs for a wide range of industries served.
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Is it Time to Revisit your Plastic Metallization Process?
The plating on plastics (POP) market has evolved to include an ever-broader range of substrates, huge increases in selective plating demand, using tools such as two-shot molding and laser ablation.
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Advances in Decorative PVD Chromium Coatings for Polymer Substrates
This article reviews a two-layer, selective coating process which incorporates a specially developed UV-cured paint base coating with a sub-micron thick PVD chromium top coating. It illustrates the coating’s testing protocols of automotive manufacturers and the necessities of controlling the stresses within the coating matrix.
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A Conversation with Cheryl Clark, NASF Director of Events
The National Association for Surface Finishing’s Sur/Fin conference saw record crowds this past June, and much of the credit goes to the person the NASF has to put on the event, Cheryl Clark.
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Innovative Applications of Electroplating and PVD for New Material Solutions - The 54th William Blum Lecture
The following is Dr. Per Møller’s William Blum Memorial Lecture at SUR/FIN 2018, in Cleveland, Ohio on June 4, 2018, with commentary by NASF Technical Editor James H. Lindsay. It covers a variety of projects involved with surface finishing applications, including sustainable energy. Due to Dr. Møller’s serious illness, he was unable to make the journey to SUR/FIN. In his stead, his longtime professional colleague, Dr. Lars Pleth Nielsen, of the Danish Technological Institute (DTI), presented the lecture.
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Dr. James Lindsay Receives NASF Presidential Award
Others receive honors at NASF Sur/Fin Conference
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III. The Effects of Shields and Baffles on the Distribution of Functional Chromium Electrodeposits
This is the third of three combined papers that received the AESF Gold Medal Award for Best Paper published in Plating & Surface Finishing in 1989. Insulating shields and baffles redirect the flow of current and affect the thickness distribution of chromium and other electrodeposits. Many examples of these useful devices for improving the uniformity of chromium deposits are described.
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II. The Effects of Stopoffs and Thieves on the Distribution of Functional Chromium Electrodeposits
This is the second of three combined papers that received the AESF Gold Medal Award for Best Paper published in Plating & Surface Finishing in 1989. Stop-offs, thieves and guards are used to change the pattern of current flow and improve metal distribution. The effects may be planned or may occur unexpectedly, producing undesirable results.
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I. Rack and Anode Effects on the Distribution of Functional Chromium Electrodeposits
This is the first of three combined papers that received the AESF Gold Medal Award for Best Paper published in Plating & Surface Finishing in 1989. Procedures for improving functional chromium thickness distribution begin with this paper that advocates useful rack designs and anode configurations.
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30-in-30 from the 2018 Products Finishing Management Stage
Download the “30-In-30” that delivered 30 great tips and ideas from Top Shop operators on ways to improve efficiencies, in a fast-paced 30-minute presentation.
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Acid Copper Technologies for Plating on Plastics
Automotive OEM performance requirements continue to increase which presents increased challenges to the supply chain to provide acceptable parts. This presentation will introduce a new system of acid copper technologies that have been designed to increase performance, widen the process operating window, reduce rejects and ultimately increase production capacity.
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Transition from a Simple Auxiliary Anode to a Fully-developed Conforming Anode System for Plating
This paper demonstrates that the use of an elaborate CAE designed conforming anode system enables plating complex exterior automotive part designs within specification. It will be shown that the increased fixed and variable production costs that are unavoidable when operating an elaborate conforming anode system can be partially earned back by a reduction in metal consumption, and by an increased capacity due to shorter plating times.
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A Conversation with Darrick Gula, Bolta US
Darrick Gula is director of North America business development for Bolta US and will be the keynote speaker at the National Association for Surface Finishing’s 2018 Sur/Fin conference and trade show.
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Coventya Products Aim to Meet Surface Finishing Challenges
Coventya will highlight a variety of its latest products at Sur/Fin 2018, including Finicoat coatings, the Alumal aluminum surface treatment line and WaterCare wastewater treatment line, and 3S anode technology.
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