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Vapor Degreasing Cleaning Fluids for Precision Cleaning

Tergo XCF2 cleaning solution is designed to meet diverse industrial technical cleaning needs with formulas that deliver reliable and repeatable cleaning performance.

Lori Beckman
Senior Editor, Products Finishing

Replacing Open-Top Vapor Degreasing in Aerospace Manufacturing

Options and considerations for cleaning aerospace parts as regulations tighten on vapor degreasing solvents.

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Top Shop Emphasizes Dedication, Work Ethic

With a primary focus on aerospace and defense work, American Metaseal Corp. of Arbutus, Maryland, has qualified as a Top Shop on multiple occasions. 

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MicroCare Offers Alternatives to Discontinued Vapor Degreasing Fluids

MicroCare says it is equipped to handle customers affected by 3M's discontinuation of the Novec specialty fluids line with its own products.

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Solar Atmospheres of Western PA Receives Nadcap Accreditation

The company received the accreditation for it’s new, fully integrated Vacuum Oil Quench furnace, which provides a significantly cleaner and safer oil quenching process.

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Umicore Combines Electroplating, Thin Film Business

The company’s new Metal Deposition Solutions business unit combines the former Electroplating and Thin Film Products business lines.

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Exair's Threaded Line Vac Transports Abrasive Materials

Exair’s Heavy Duty Threaded Line Vacs are made of a hardened alloy to prevent premature wear when transporting abrasive or heavy materials like garnet, glass, sand, shot blast, tumbling media or metal fittings.

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Vacuum Degreaser Cleans Up a Messy Situation

By replacing its immersion parts washer with a vacuum degreasing system, this machine shop is much more efficient, saving the company money, man hours and the health of the operators.

Lori Beckman
Senior Editor, Products Finishing

Hartzell Air Movement Showcases Its Line of Fiberglass Fans

At SUR/FIN 2021, Hartzell Air Movement will showcase its line of fiberglass fans, which the company recommends for situations where corrosive elements exist in fume or in vapor form.

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Replacement or Reinforcement of DLC Coatings

Expanite, a Danish pioneer of surface hardening of stainless steel and titanium, replaces or supplements the widespread DLC coatings with its technology.

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DriSteem Hires Two New Engineers

The water treatment corporation welcomes Tom Swanson and Hugo Chavolla

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Extending Bath Life and Reducing Process Challenges in Vapor Degreasing Systems

How using a stabilizer can extend your bath life and help you avoid costly system repairs.

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Tiger Group Listing PVD and Other Equipment For Bulk Offers

Tiger Group is listing four robot-automated parts-washing, powder-coating and vacuum metallizing lines from Winona PVD — including “like-new” PVD equipment.

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Expanding Medical Coating Capabilities

One company’s approach to broadening its functional coatings offerings to further serve the medical sector.

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Understanding Robotic Vacuum Impregnation

Robotic vacuum impregnation can be used to seal porosity, minimize scrap, increase throughput and reduce costs.


Cefla Promotes Samuel Mask to Permanent Role

Cefla North America has hired Samuel Mask as a lab application technician, promoting him from the intern position he began in October 2019.

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Cefla Finishing Adds National Service Manager Role

Cefla has created a new national service technician position, hiring industry veteran Sauro Tugnoli to fill it.

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Coating the Webb

From its signature primary mirror to thermal control for its instruments, the James Webb Space Telescope is enabled by gold coatings.

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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.

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Mass-Vac Vacuum Pump Inlet Traps Block Deposition Byproducts

Mass-Vac is offering a range of customizable vacuum pump inlet traps for select vacuum-vapor deposition processes in research, semiconductor fabrication and industrial coating facilities.

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Vapor Technologies Offers Hybrid PVD Coater

FABTECH 2020: Vapor Technologies offers hybrid PVD coaters which can be used for cathodic arc, sputtering or both.

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Replacing Discontinued Vapor Degreasing Fluids – 3 Things to Consider

What do you do when you learn your trusted line of vapor degreasing cleaning fluids will soon be discontinued? Elizabeth Norwood of MicroCare discusses what you should keep in mind when replacing discontinued vapor degreasing fluids.


Vapor Degreasing: A Fresh Look at an Old Process

Solvent-based cleaning using a vapor degreaser is seeing a resurgence as an alternative cleaning method due to the development of environmentally safe cleaning fluids.

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The Right Solvent Creates the Cleanest Parts

Cox Manufacturing Co. has worked with Kyzen Corp. since it implemented its vacuum vapor degreaser to find just the right chemical solvent to clean its customers’ parts to their specifications and beyond.

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Hauzer Launches Flexible PVD Coating Machine

Flexicoat 1250, the new PVD coating machine from Hauzer, has an increased loading capacity, seven cathode positions and eight plate positions.

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Advanced Finishing Technologies Pilots Closed-Loop Vacuum Evaporation System

Custom-designed chrome reclamation system minimizes water and chemical consumption, and waste effluent.

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Recyclable VCI Moisture-Barrier Paper Surpasses Biobased Content Requirements

Cortec’s EcoShield VpCI-144 moisture barrier VCI (vapor corrosion inhibitor) paper contains 69% USDA certified biobased content.

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A Lustrous Example of Expanding a Plating Operation

Ohio’s Lustrous Metal Coatings Pins Growth on Acquiring Other Manufacturing Operations

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