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CCAI Accepting National Scholarship Applications
The objective of the scholarship program is to encourage advanced education in finishing technologies. The application deadline is April 2. Awards will be announced in June at CCAI’s annual meeting in Sarasota, Florida.
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Advanced Plating Technologies Names Matthew Lindstedt as President
The family-owned Milwaukee, Wisconsin, finishing company’s former president, John Lindstedt, has been named CEO.
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Decc Co. Posts Record Sales for 2017
The company reached $9.4 million in sales for the year, besting its previous record of $9.17 million set in 2007. After taking into account programs set to launch this year and forecasted sales to current customers, it expects to be over the $10 million mark at the end of 2018.
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Tech Talk: Functional Zinc Plating
While offering sacrificial corrosion protection based upon its larger negative electro-potential than iron, zinc is not used without subsequent treatment.
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Ecoat Express Revolutionizes GE Locomotives
GE Transportation adds an electrocoat system to ease manufacturing bottlenecks with the help of savvy suppliers who know how to get the project done.
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Anodizing Brake Calipers
The process places special demands on the coater, and on the process suppliers.
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2018 Hall of Fame Inductees
Abner Brenner, Dr. George E.F. Brewer, Daniel Brockman, Richard Crain, Pieter de Lange, Ronald Duncan, Dr. Erwin Gemmer, David Marsh and Blair Vandivier were picked by an independent panel of industry executives.
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A Look at Parts Cleaning Across the Continents
A visit to the parts2clean show examines how manufacturing views parts cleaning.
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How to Get Sprayed Metal Coatings to Stick
MIT research reveals that, in bonding of sprayed metal coatings, melting sometimes hurts rather than helps.
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Southwest Metal Finishing Gets New Ownership
The New Berlin, Wisconsin, company was purchased through a court-supervised receivership proceeding by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Armor Group Inc.
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Cyber Security Is NASF Chicago Midwest Chapter Meeting Topic
FBI Special Agent Kenneth “K.C.” Bixby will address “Cyber Theft/Protecting Your Cyber World” at the event, to be held February 22 at at Belvedere Banquets in in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
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Michigan Bill Targets PFAS
The $23.2 million allocation will provide testing, monitoring and technical assistance at more than a dozen sites across Michigan where PFAS have been found in groundwater.
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