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Anodizing Brake Calipers

The process places special demands on the coater, and on the process suppliers.

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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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AAC Warns About Tariffs on Imported Primary Aluminum

The group says tariffs on imported primary aluminum products will likely be passed along the value chain until it impacts consumers, and they will make U.S. manufacturers of aluminum products even less competitive against low-cost producers like Chinese companies.

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CCAI’s Powder Coating and Curing Processes Seminar Set for Feb. 20-21 in Alabama

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Infrared Division of the Industrial Heating Equipment Association and Products Finishing magazine.

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New Coating Enables Medical Equipment Manufacturers to Operate at Higher Voltages, Reduced Size

Charge dissipative (CD) coating capability for ceramic parts was launched at RSNA 2017 in Chicago in supporting the development of increasingly compact medical equipment.                 

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Michigan NASF Holding Detroit Auto Show Preview

Tickets include a lunch with a featured speaker and access to the NAIAS Industry Preview Week show at Cobo Hall.

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Ace Anodizing and Impregnating Expanding Operations

Plant expansion is underway with a projected move in date sometime in the first quarter of 2018. The addition will bring total plant square footage to upwards of 80,000 sq. ft.

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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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