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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Conductivity in Hard Chrome Plating Baths
Measuring the conductivity of your hard chromium plating bath can help to determine how to best optimize its performance.
Episode 1: Early Days - Insights Into the Surface Finishing Industry
Products Finishing’s On the Line podcast for coaters and finishers discusses evolving trends in surface finishing with interviews with powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert and 2021 Finishing Hall of Fame inductee Bill Saas.
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.
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German Finishing Company Releases New Plating Technology
Holzapfel Group offers high-speed plating of individual parts using compact system technology.
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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.
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Technical Plating Talks Recent Expansions
Tyler Thomas, vice president and general manager of Technical Plating (Minneapolis, Minn.), talks about the company’s two newest lines and capabilities.
Polishing Is Spot-On For Arlington Plating
APC has an extensive polishing and buffing department, one that has been a mainstay of the shop for more than 60 years.
Episode 4: Surface Finishing and Environmental Stewardship
In this episode of Products Finishing’s On the Line podcast we focus on the environment, recycling and sustainability. We’ll speak with powder coating recycling company Innovakote and hear about Advanced Plating Technologies’ efforts to recycle metals from electroplating sludge.
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Avoiding Roughness and Pitting in Decorative Bright Nickel
Doug Lay of Coventya Inc. offers a troubleshooting guide for avoiding roughness and pitting in decorative bright nickel processing.
Doug Lay is director of technical marketing for Coventya Inc. Visit coventya.com Q: We are experiencing frequent issues with roughness and pitting in the deposit from our decorative bright nickel process. Is there information that can assist in understanding the difference of each and in finding the root cause? A: Roughness is usually caused by the incorporation of insoluble particles in the deposit and can come from ...READ MORE
Control of Trivalent Passivates
Stephen Roberts of Columbia Chemical discusses ways to better control passivate solutions to improve quality.
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Avoiding Tank Failure
Gary Kriesch leads the business unit at Tri-Mer Corp. that specializes in turnkey anodizing, electrocoating and other metal finishing systems. In this helpful article, he offers insights into the design, selection and maintenance of tanks that are the heart of those systems.
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Moving Your Shop to the Next Level
New technology can be both enticing and threatening. Steve Schneider of John Schneider & Associates, Inc. offers insights for evaluating potential investments.
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Longer, Cleaner Plating Bath Life
Angelo Magrone of Bales Metal Surface Solutions suggests adding an agitation and filtration system to keep plating pretreatment tanks cleaner, longer.
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Managing Gold Plating for Electrical Contacts
With electrical contacts continuing to grow smaller, platers need to know how to manage the three key considerations of gold plating: thickness, purity and underplate chemistry.
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Plating with Zinc-Nickel: Benefits and Challenges
Chad Murphy of Columbia Chemical speaks about the benefits of various types of zinc-nickel alloy, and provides tips for manufacturers about the zinc-nickel plating process.
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Innovation Squared
Single component EN system enables bleed and feed process.
INNOVATIONS IN ELECTROPLATING TECHNOLOGY
Custom Cabinet Coolers for Electrical Enclosures
Exair’s new cabinet cooler systems can be customized to provide cooling within electrical enclosures in NEMA 12, NEMA 4, NEMA 4X and Hazardous location environments.
A New Family of Rectifiers
Dynapower has announced the launch of its new RapidX family of rectifiers, including both pre-engineered SCR and air-cooled SMPS rectifiers.
Coventya Introduces Eco-Friendly PTFE Composite Coating
Coventya’s ENOVA 115 PTFE process is an electroless nickel-phosphorus plating system that is PFOS/PFOA free.
Signashield Coating Eliminates Germs from Alpine's HX5
Alpine’s HX5, when coated with Signature Plating’s Signashield, displays antimicrobial properties that make it suitable for high-contact parts.
Columbia's Tricol Reclaim Reduces Trivalent Chrome Costs
Columbia Chemical has launched its Tricol Reclaim solution for trivalent chromium plating, which it says lowers process costs between 40 and 60 percent.
Atotech's DynaSmart Plating Line Enhances Efficiency
Atotech’s DynaSmart includes a new automation system that allows the simultaneous movement of several product carriers through different plating tanks.
