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Liquid Coating

Scientists' High-Tech Paint Keeps Steel Beams from Melting

Callaghan Innovation’s team spent more than a year working with a paint firm to develop a fire-resistant coating known as intumescent.

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Vacuum Vapor

New Mirror-Coating Technology Promises Dramatic Improvements in Telescopes

At UC Santa Cruz, an electrical engineer has teamed up with astronomers to improve telescope mirrors using thin-film technology from the electronics industry

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Vacuum Vapor

Society of Vacuum Coaters Gains Affiliated Membership in the American Institute of Physics

As an AIP Affiliate, the SVC will be provided an opportunity to collaborate with complementary technical organizations and benchmark best practices as they strive to increase our value and relevance to our international base of stakeholders

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automotive

Dürr Named Core Supplier of Groupe PSA

With its multiple automotive brands — Peugeot, Citroën, DS Automobiles, Opel in Germany and Vauxhall in Great Britain — Groupe PSA has been a major customer of Durr’s for more than 20 years.

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You Say You Want a Resolution?

The editorial team asked finishers for their New Year’s resolves, and here are their responses.

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Electroplating

Leveling the Field in Nickel Plating

Profilometry helps determine the leveling characteristics of Watts nickel baths.

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Powder Coating

Powder Coated in the U.S.A.

A Florida manufacturer commits to making American products the old-fashioned way: by hand and from quality materials.  

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Mastering Sanitary Stainless Steel Finishes

Here’s a primer on the types of finishes required for equipment used in sanitary applications.

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Liquid Coating

Using 3D to Design a Paint Shop

Laser scanning helps optimize planning in brownfield expansion projects.

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Powder Coating

CCAI Chapters Brighten Holidays for Local Charities

The Southern California, Central States and Wisconsin chapters conducted toy drives, and the Twin Cities and Central States chapters made cash donations to local charities. 

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Powder Coating

Vogel Paint's Powder Expansion Project Ahead of Schedule

The company says that Phase Three of a five-year, $29.3 million expansion plan for the powder coating operation located at its headquarters in Orange City, Iowa, will begin ahead of schedule. 

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surfin

Additive Manufacturing and Surface Finishing - The 53rd William Blum Lecture

This presentation is the 53rd William Blum Lecture, presented at SUR/FIN 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 6, 2016. In this lecture, Dr. Melissa Klingenberg discusses additive manufacturing; that is, any manufacturing process capable of making 3D objects from a digital model, or building-up 3D features onto an existing object, layer-by-layer.  Cold spray, thermal spray, electroforming, structural plating and gaseous carbonyl deposition are covered.   

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