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Old School Ways for New Method Plating
Cadmium and die castings help a 86-year-old Massachusetts plating shop thrive.
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RPW/Elite Holding Plating Classes
The classes are designed to help customer service, engineers, designers, salesmen, purchasers and product managers who need more information on how plating is done and what plating can do.
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Waterborne Coating Symposium is Feb. 4-9
The internationally renowned symposium offers a dual track schedule on the latest coatings technology and developments by outstanding industrial and academic scientists.
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Electrodeposited Inconel and Stellite-like Coatings for Improved Corrosion Resistance in Biocombustors
This work deals with problems in the Third World – namely improving the safety and efficiency of cookstoves used by people around the world. A scalable and economic process is required to apply coatings on low-cost stainless steel substrates for enhanced high temperature corrosion resistance specifically targeted towards biomass combustion apparatus. Cost effective, scalable, and flexible electrodeposition-based coating of various alloys [Ni/Co]-Cr-[Mo/Fe] system, that are able to withstand high temperature corrosion and improve the functional lifetime of existing and next generation bio-combustors components is a desirable technological advancement. Within this context, a wide array of electrolytes and processing parameters were evaluated to develop an ideal alloy coating.
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Direct Metallization for Plating on Plastics
A new combination of copper immersion and autocatalytic copper-(I)-oxide deposition enables lower palladium concentrations in the activator bath, though the amount of copper deposited on the plastic surface can be up to ten times higher compared to its predecessor processes.
Read MoreCrack Formation during Electrodeposition and Post-deposition Aging of Thin Film Coatings - 6th Quarterly Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the sixth quarter of project work (April-June 2017) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the University of Houston. The objective of the work is to study fundamental and practical aspects of crack formation in electrodeposited thin films.
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Vogel Paint Opens Expanded Powder Coating Operation
Vogel Industrial Coatings has completed the first two phases of a five-year, $29.3 million expansion plan for its powder coating manufacturing operation located at the company’s headquarters in Orange City, Iowa.
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PPG Donates Coatings to Help Restore A-12 Spy Plane
PPG donated nearly 90 gallons of PPG Desothane HS 8201/F gloss military topcoat in midnight for the livery and four additional colors for markings.
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Laboratory Using Vacuum Coating to Develop High Sensitivity Parameters Sensor Structures
The scientists at Russia’s Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University used a completely new technology based on vacuum coating, which will cut production costs drastically.
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Sifco ASC Staff Help at Local Food Bank
A total of 29 colleagues donated 116 volunteer hours to this worthy cause to help the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, which provides more than 50,000,000 meals each year.
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Properly Following Cleaning Protocols
Should suppliers use your technical cleanliness inspection procedure? Here’s a look at how three industry-standard requirements play together with customer-specific standards.
Read MoreMeasuring Electrocoat Film Build Is a Top Priority
Appearance and durability are affected if a coating’s thickness is greater than specified.
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