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Parts Cleaning: The Basics of Bases and Acids
Small changes in the pH of a cleaning bath can make the difference in achieving effective cleaning.
Read MorePowder Coating Clinic: Avoiding Rust on Parts
Q. We apply lighter colors of powder to our ticket machines for parking lots.
Read MorePowder Coating Clinic: Discoloration of Metal-Flake in Powder
Q. We have a metal-flake silver powder color that we use regularly. If the surface is abraded with a Taber wheel—or even a pencil eraser—it darkens significantly in the abraded area. We even have this problem when our parts scrape against cardboard packaging. Our supplier suggested we switch from an unbonded leafing aluminum to a more expensive bonded product. We tried the bonded leafing aluminum, but we still have the same problem. Certain types of friction create this effect, seemingly those that perhaps have a higher coefficient of friction. Do they remove the aluminum flake from the surface? Can you explain this problem and tell us why it happens with some abrasives and not with others? What can we do to stop this?
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Data-Driven Coater Uses Technology to Improve Finishes
Iowa’s Co-Line is a Top Shop that uses analytics to improve efficiencies.
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Praxair, GE Aviation Launch Joint Surface Technologies Venture
Focus will be on development, support and application of specialized coatings tailored for GE Aviation’s and CFM International’s current and future engine models,
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Nordson Partners with Powder Coating Institute to Award $5,000 Scholarship
Nordson Corporation partners with the Powder Coating Institute (PCI) to sponsor the first $5,000 Nordson BUILDS/PCI Scholarship, awarded at the PC Summit earlier this month.
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Trojan Powder Coating Collaborates with Artist Stephen Glassman
Flows Two Ways adorns the facade of Via 57 West, Bjarke Ingels Group’s first mixed-use residence building in New York City.
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CCAI's SoCal Chapter's Toys For Tots Golf Event Helps Marines
This year the chapter is aiming for 600 toys for the U.S. Marine holiday program after collecting 523 last year.
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Tower at PNC Plaza with PPG Coatings Earns Architectural Award
Inner and outer curtain walls incorporate metal framing finished with Coraflon Sunstorm fluoropolymer powder coating in "mica gray", which meet or exceed AAMA 2605 specifications.
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Diamond Vogel Celebrates 90 Years
The company’s story began in Friesland, Holland, where company founder Andrew Vogel worked in his father’s paint shop applying finishes to the homes and carriages of Dutch farmers.
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Eyelet Manufacturer Finds Safer Paint Stripping With Aquastrip
The manufacturer was buying a stripping product from another company, but there were several issues regarding service, value and performance. Not to mention the strong odor and no one really wanted to use it.
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Toefco Expansion Adds 20,000-Square-Foot Coating Facility
Adding to its already operating two overhead conveyor lines with more than 400 available coating specs, Toefco increased both its capacity and capabilities with the addition of a new 20,000-square-foot, high-capacity, high-temperature coating facility.
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