Articles
A Smooth Transition from One Anodizing Process to Another
Knowing when to switch from chromic acid anodizing to thin film sulfuric acid anodizing is important. Learn about why the change should be considered and the challenges in doing so.
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Small Staff Operates Lucrative Powder Coating Top Shop
Strength in numbers? Not necessarily. Determination, customer loyalty and family values have held up this small family-owned shop after almost 30 years in business, including surviving a natural disaster.
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August Finishing Activity: Continued Contraction; Closes at 46.5
Finishing activity reports a degree of redemption in August, ending the month up 1.4 points compared to July.
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Constant Reinvention
Industry events highlight the intersections between areas of manufacturing and the ways today’s industry trends are changing the way things are made.
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Specialty Oven’s Hot Benefits and Other Questions Answered
Learn about the advantages of gas catalytic infrared pre-gel ovens in this article, including how they are energy efficient and can save users time and money when integrated into their existing systems.
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Reduced Ion Electroless Nickel to Meet a Sustainable Future
Reduced ion electroless nickel technology operates at lower metal concentrations than conventional EN and has an important role in the future of sustainable EN processes.
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'Tis the Season — Gearing Up for Conferences and Trade Shows
Products Finishing looks ahead to fall finishing industry events.
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The Best Method for Coating Full-Size Aircraft
John Owed from Carlisle Fluid Technologies analyzes the difference between using air-assisted airless, air spray and other technologies for coating a full-size aircraft. Which is better?
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Concrete Reinforced Bars Built to Last
Not all corrosion-resistant materials for infrastructure are created equally. Epoxy-coated steel rebar has advantages that other materials used to prevent corrosion do not.
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Calculating Applied Media Force During Vibratory Finishing
What appear to be identically set-up vibratory bowls will finish identical loads of parts in varying time cycles. This paper offers a new technique to better predict what the operator will produce, by measuring the force applied to the parts. It is the efficiency of that force which controls the efficiency and speed of the refinement cycle.
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NASF/AESF Foundation Research Project #122: Electrochemical Approaches to Treatment of PFAS in Plating Wastewater - 9th Quarterly Report
The NASF-AESF Foundation Research Board selected a project addressing the problem of PFAS and related chemicals in plating wastewater streams. This report covers the ninth quarter of work (January-March 2023). In this report, we describe our work on evaluating the performance of PFAS degradation by electrooxidation using surface fluorinated Ti4O7 anodes in batch mode.
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