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Top Shops: Employees drive Tri-State Fabricators to Growth, Success
This three-time recipient of the Top Shops award emphasizes human resources and training.
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Top Shops: Safeway Services Earns its Way to No. 1
The owner of Safeway Services, a painting and powder coating provider in Rockford, Illinois, wants to be more than just a hired hand.
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Making Contact with Your Plating Line
Picking the right electrical contact system is important for proper plating line optimization.
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Going Vertical in Powder Coatings
Gateway Extrusions, an aluminum extruder in Union, Missouri, installed a new vertical line that allows it to more efficiently process longer profiles.
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Electronic Plating: OutREACH or OverREACH?
U.S. chemical companies can benefit from compliance with the European regulation.
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Dürr Paint Test and Training Center In Michigan Packing Them In
Test and Training Center offers unique resources that provide OEMs offline opportunities to test paint and sealer materials for their production applications.
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Top Shops: New Finishing Technology Pushes Parker Trutec
Expansion and new equipment lead this Ohio coater’s growth.
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George Koch Sons Acquires Engineered Finishing Solutions
Koch says the purchase adds porcelain enamel expertise to they company's portfolio of automated finishing systems, which include liquid and powder coatings, electrocoat, anodizing and plating.
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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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