Electric vs. Pneumatic Agitators: What Makes Sense?
When determining the need for an agitator, says Mike Elberson from Autoquip, you must look at budget versus long-term energy conservation.
Mike Elberson
President, Autoquip Inc.
Veolia Water Technologies Helps Optimize Resources
Group designs and provides water, waste and energy management solutions that contribute to industry sustainability.
Using Alternatives in Pretreatment Baths for Degreasing
Effective cleaning at low, even ambient temperatures, is possible, says Atotech’s Brandon Lloyd, and creates a safer work environment and reduces energy demands.
Swift Coat Nets $1M to Commercialize Self-Cleaning Nanocoatings
The project aims to reduce efficiency losses in solar panels due to soiling, the buildup of dirt on the panel’s surface that blocks sunlight.
Col-Met AutoSeal Door Saves Energy
Batch oven roll-up door also designed for safety, maintenance and space savings.
Idvac's Polymer Nanolayer Protects Metallized Copper
Vaccum-deposited nanolayer is designed for variety of uses in security, decorative, packaging, agriculture and solar markets.
Col-Met Makes LED Lighting Standard in Spray Booths
The LEDs are available for both liquid and powder booths, offering more energy efficiency and providing more vibrant, truer color.
Composite Electroless Nickel Coatings for the Wind Energy Industry
The ability to tailor CEN coatings with an array of synergistic particles makes these coatings uniquely beneficial for applications in the wind energy industry.
Sweco Finishing Mills Provide 3D Motion
Vibro-energy finishing mills have compressive scrubbing action that cleans, deburrs, rounds sharp corners and smooths out surface impressions.
Beko Technologies' Drypoint X Series Designed for Energy Savings
Dryers use energy-efficient components in combination with in-house controller programming to offer energy savings.
DuBois' DuraLink Minimizes Pretreatment Floor Space
Product line designed to help eliminate phosphates and reduce energy costs while improving coating system performance.
IntelliFinishing Coating Systems Offer Flexibility, Smaller Footprint
Systems include friction-driven conveyors, energy-efficient washers and ovens, easy-to-use smart controls, liquid and powder booths, platforms and more.
Hendor D13 Vertical Pump Reduces Energy Consumption
Hender-PE’s line of pumps and filtration systems includes the D13 series of sealless, bearingless vertical pumps.
Energy Coatings Get Big Lift
The March issue of Products Finishing takes a look at coatings for the energy sector, specifically for wind energy. Surface Technology’s Michael Feldstein takes a deep look at composite electroless nickel finishes.
Firearms and Flatware Feed Silvex’s Growing Electroplating Operation
It’s obvious that Silvex specializes in silver, but its processes also reach into the defense, aerospace, power generation and medical industries.
Tim Pennington
Contributor
PPG to Acquire Global Coatings Manufacturer Whitford Worldwide
Whitford specializes in manufacturing low-friction, wear-resistant coatings for industrial applications in automotive, aerospace, energy and construction products.
High-Solid Acrylic Resin Dries Faster at Lower Temps
Royal DSM’s Hybrane CY235 is a high-solid acrylic resin designed to enhance the performance of metal coatings while providing higher throughput and reduced energy consumption.
Eductors Enable Smaller Pumps to Circulate Large Volumes
Bex says its eductors take advantage of the surrounding liquid to create a high-velocity flow yield at the diffuser, circulating as much as five times the pump output with a discharge plume broader than the jet from a solid stream nozzle of equivalent energy.
Finishing Systems Offer Energy-, Cost-Savings Features
General Fabrications Corp.’s finishing systems feature variable frequency drives for washer pumps coupled with pressure transducers for the changing of spray pressure.
Asterion Adds Technical Sales Engineer for Ohio, Kentucky
Heather Lemieux has a diverse background in technology and customer service, including five years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
Navy Developing Coating to Reduce Ship Fuel, Energy Costs
It can repel water, oil, alcohol and even peanut butter, and it might save the U.S. Navy millions of dollars in ship fuel costs, reduce the amount of energy that vessels consume and improve operational efficiency.
Automated Electroplating Systems
Simultaneous engineering reduces energy and resource consumption.
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.
A Brite Adds Green Power Products' Switch Mode DC and Pulse Rectifiers
The product line can be used in both the surface finishing and waste-treatment sectors, and are designed not only to save energy, but also to be compact, rugged and corrosion-proof.
New Thermal Coatings for Spacecraft, Satellites Use Metamaterials
Metamaterial optical solar reflectors (meta-OSRs) are the first surface coatings on the outside of a spacecraft, designed to effectively radiate infrared heat away from it while reflecting most of the optical solar spectrum.
Ventilation System Designed for Energy Savings, Worker Protection
KCH Engineered Systems will display its Smart Tank Cover system at Sur/Fin 2018, designed for energy savings and increased worker protection against airborne fugitive emissions.
Software Supports Continuous Process Improvement
Integrated Technologies’ Plato’s Process Planner is a process modeling and planning software that calculates energy, water, waste streams, chemical usage, air emissions and costs by tank, process, line and overall wet-process facility.
Benchtop Analyzers Measure Large Parts, Small Features
Hitachi High-Technology Analytical Science’s FT110A benchtop energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) analyzer is designed to measure large parts with complex geometries, while the FT150 model is suited for analyzing ultra-thin coatings on small features.