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Process Technology Opens New Global HQ and R&D Center
The company also is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, with operations in Willoughby and Mentor, Ohio, and Amery, Wisconsin.
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Is it Time to Revisit your Plastic Metallization Process?
The plating on plastics (POP) market has evolved to include an ever-broader range of substrates, huge increases in selective plating demand, using tools such as two-shot molding and laser ablation.
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Parts2clean Show Addresses Trends Impacting Parts Cleaning
The October event in Stuttgart, Germany, aims to help manufacturers and finishers solve some of the issues associated with trends like lightweight construction, changing manufacturing and coating technologies, and new materials and material combinations.
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CCAI Recognizes Award Winners, Installs 2018-19 Board
During its annual meeting in Sarasota, Florida, the group bestowed its highest honor on Rex Winemiller, who had been an active member for 26 years until his retirement in 2015.
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Therma-Tron-X Purchases Wisconsin Furnace Maker
TTX officials say they will add high-temperature furnaces to their product offerings and carry on the HTF brand.
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FANUC America to Expand HQ with New Michigan Facility
The $51 million expansion, expected to create 100 jobs, received a $1 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. It is scheduled to open in Fall 2019.
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Crack Formation during Electrodeposition and Post-deposition Aging of Thin Film Coatings - 9th & 10th Quarterly Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the ninth and tenth quarters of project work (January-June 2018) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the University of Houston. The work continued towards identifying the effective pulse deposition approach to control and mitigate the stress state of chromium thin films and also involved a comprehensive study of palladium stress evolution during electrodeposition and strategies to mitigate its magnitude.
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Advances in Decorative PVD Chromium Coatings for Polymer Substrates
This article reviews a two-layer, selective coating process which incorporates a specially developed UV-cured paint base coating with a sub-micron thick PVD chromium top coating. It illustrates the coating’s testing protocols of automotive manufacturers and the necessities of controlling the stresses within the coating matrix.
Read MoreACM Technologies Adds Water Treatment Firm’s Operations
Aqua-Con, a water treatment services company based in Santa Ana, California, has agreed to merge its operations into ACM’s Gardena, California, facility. The company will operate under the ACM brand.
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How to Cut Costs by Properly Storing Industrial Paints and Powders
Hazardous material storage is about more than just safety precautions. Properly storing industrial chemicals such as paints and powders can lead to significant cost savings.
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Abstracts Due For Waterborne, High-Solids and Powder Coatings Symposium
The conference, sponsored by the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at the University of Southern Mississippi, will be held February 24 to March 1, 2019, in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Medical Industry Shows Signs of Strength
Gardner Intelligence’s chief economist, Michael Guckes, says company earnings and economic data both indicate short- and long-term growth for manufacturers in the medical industry.
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