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Can You Afford to Not Use Custom Masking?

Are you weighing the costs of a custom masking solution vs. an off-the-shelf solution? Christy Schulthess of Custom Fabricating & Supplies discusses the overall savings that can be realized with custom masking.

EPSI Relaunches Custom Masking Program

EPSI’s plotter cutting provides custom solutions for complicated masks and irregular shapes.

Caplugs Offers Webinar Series on Masking Design

Caplugs Connect platform offers education on product protection solutions.

Electrocoating

Caplugs Acquires Safeplast to Expand Solutions for Hose Protection

Caplugs acquires Safeplast as part of the company's efforts to expand hose protection capabilities.

Powder Coating

The Powder Coating Process

Powder coating is one of the most durable finishes that can be applied to industrial manufactured products, and offers excellent corrosion protection and is very safe because of its lack of volatile organic compounds. To understand the powder coating process you should start with the fundamentals.

More to Masking

How finding the right masking solution impacts your finishing operation.

Caplugs Expands European Manufacturing Capabilities

Caplugs has announced the acquisition of Polykap srl as part of efforts to expand manufacturing and service options for European customers.

Powder Coating

Powder Coat MDF for an Enviable Finished Product

Cabinet maker says powder coating on wood offers more benefits.

Caplugs' Custom Rubber Masking Parts

EPSI Solutions for Masking, Hanging, Racking Challenges

Electroplating

MOCAP New Series and Expansions

MOCAP has introduced an expansion on T series Tapered Plug Caps and FC Series Flanged Caps.

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Custom Masking

Is a custom masking design worth the investment? John Gill of Caplugs outlines the considerations to keep in mind when choosing between an off-the-shelf masking solution or a custom-made one.

FrogTape Introduces High-Performance Masking Tapes

FrogTape’s new line includes three high-performance products for marine, industrial, transportation and automotive coating applications.

Daubert Cromwell's ClearPak 5000 Film Inhibits Corrosion

Daubert Cromwell’s ClearPak 5000 is a bio-based poly that meets international standards as a quality corrosion inhibitor (VCI) film.

Leveraging Technology for Rapid Custom Masking Solutions

When should you consider a custom masking solution? Christy Schulthess of Custom Fabricating & Supplies discusses how today’s technology is putting specialized masking options within reach.

Liquid Coating

New MINI Hardtops Feature Multicolor Roofs

Wet-on-wet painting process means each roof is unique.

Electroplating

Plastics and Plating on Plastics [1944]

This republished 1944 AES convention paper presents an historic perspective of the early days of plastics in surface finishing - using them and plating on them, in the waning years of World War II. The discussion reviews the uses of plastics in plating equipment and processing at that time, as well as the coating of the plastics themselves, with accompanying application photos. You will note that today’s conventional plating-on-plastics processes lay far in the future. Surprisingly, CVD processes are discussed.

Daubert Cromwell VCI Bearing Wrap Sports Embossed Texture

Daubert Cromwell’s embossed VCI poly film grips and stays in place around bearings and round shapes while protecting against corrosion and rust.

Powder Coating

Automation Smoothes the Way for Surgical Coatings

Medical device coating company discusses how automation enables increased abrasion resistance and improved insulative properties for electrosurgery.

Powder Coating

Ecoat Enables Chest X-Ray System

A diverse customer base is key for small shops like Giering Metal Finishing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company says one of its largest growth areas has been with a customer manufacturing chest x-ray systems.

Electroplating

A Conversation With Will Wallace of SAT Plating

SAT Plating general manager Will Wallace talks to Products Finishing about his company’s surface activation technology, plating on composites, and what the changing manufacturing landscape might mean for platers.

Powder Coating

Touch-up Options for Powder Coated Parts

Is it true that powder coating cannot be touched up? Powder coating expert Rodger Talbert offers options for powder coating touch-ups.

Rodger Talbert
Columnist, Products Finishing magazine

Powder Coating

Applications Innovation Leads to Better Masking Solutions

When masking product failures are costing you money, it pays to work with an expert that can select or engineer the most efficient solution.

Liquid Coating

Special Coatings Support Mars Rover

The Mars 2020 Perseverence rover will rely on highly engineered surface treatments to protect it from the extreme temperatures of space and the harsh environment of Mars.

Powder Coating

Giering Metal Finishing Completes Facility Expansion

The building, constructed in the late 1970s, was in sore need of a renovation for energy efficiency, Giering says.

CFS' Masking Plugs Are Color-Coded for Accuracy of Selection

The plugs are especially suited to e-coating and other immersion processes.

Liquid Coating

Painting the Mars 2020 Rover

The Mars 2020 rover Perseverance is on its way to the red planet. What kind of surface finish will protect the rover as it does its job? This video from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shows how NASA technicians paint the rover for withstanding the harsh environment of Mars.

Mechanical Finishing

EPSI Acquires An-Kor Rack Company

Masking supplier EPSI has acquired An-Kor Rack Company. The expanded business will provide racks, hooks, masking and custom solutions.

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