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Platform Specialty Products Separates MacDermid Into Own Unit
MacDermid Performance Solutions encompasses acquisitions it has made over the years, including Enthone and OMG.
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BASF Refinish Coatings Receives GM Global Refinish Approval
BASF Corp. Refinish Coatings has received General Motors Global Refinish approval for its Glasurit and R-M paint brands.
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California Enacts New Air Quality Law to Shutter Platers
New law gives local pollution control officials the power to issue immediate orders to stop polluting operations when violations pose an “imminent and substantial” danger.
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Metals Loading Study Supports Milwaukee Finishers' Stand Against Regulations: Then and Now
In July of this year, our NASF Report featured a major success for the surface finishing industry, the results of a 2014-2016 study of wastewater discharged to the POTWs in Milwaukee. What follows here is the story going back 30 years, when an initial study of Milwaukee metal finishers’ discharge to the POTWs dramatically refuted the negative image portrayed by others. It’s only gotten better since.
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Automated Selective Plating Takes Off With Safran Project
Sifco ASC has partnered with Safran on various surface finishing projects for more than 20 years, including recent work to increase wear resistance on an aircraft’s axles.
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The Systems View in Automotive Finishes: Essential, but Overlooked - The 38th William Blum Lecture
This article is a re-publication of the 38th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 84th AES Annual Convention in Detroit, Michigan on June 23, 1997. This lecture reviews a number of works in automotive finishing R&D in which understanding of the overall system was absolutely essential to success, from classical nickel-chromium plating to work in vacuum/electroplated hybrids for plated plastics, electrogalvanized zinc and hard chromium in stamping dies.
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Axalta Powder Coatings Chosen to Protect Tallest Tower in Malaysia
With completion scheduled for 2018, the impressive skyscraper will be the tallest building in Malaysia, transforming the city’s International Financial District.
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King Coatings Providing Canadian Forces with Mack Truck Coatings
Mack Defense of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was awarded two contracts to provide standard military pattern trucks and related equipment for the Canadian Forces.
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PPG to Acquire Coatings Application Services Provider The Crown Group
Headquartered in Warren, Michigan, Crown has 950 employees and is one of the leading component and product finishers in North America.
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DS Manufacturing Changes Name to Lincoln Industries
This name change marks a continued strengthening of Lincoln Industries' position as the nation’s leading supplier of exhaust tubes in the United States, the company says.
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New Legislation Will Impose Higher Penalties on California Platers
The current maximum penalty of $7,000 for general violations is increasing to $12,471. This new penalty level also will apply for CAL/OSHA posting, record keeping and notice requirement violations.
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Author: Time for EPA to Lead in 'Real World' Safety Standards
"I implore our new administration in Washington to take the lead and bring good sense and reason back into the regulatory process."
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