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Formula SAE Student Design - Products Finishing Cup
Formula SAE is a collegiate student design competition organized by SAE International. The concept behind Formula SAE Student Design is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer.
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Curtis Metal Finishing Expands Illinois Location
$4 million expansion includes cutting edge equipment for a new line of surface finishing materials; expansion will create 14 new jobs, boosting the firm’s Illinois workforce of 60 by 23 percent.
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MySetta's New Styling With Clever BASF Technologies
A specially developed two-tone finish was applied to the microcar at BASF Coatings’ Refinish Competence Center in Münster by experienced master spraypainter Michael Wichmann using blue for the lower part of the car and white for the top.
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CCAI Adds On-Line Educational Videos on CCAI TV
This new feature is available to everyone free until December 1 on the CCAI website. The educational presentations are designed to provide information and understanding on a variety of finishing technologies.
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Platers Go Back to School to Help Future Engineers
Milt Stevenson of Anoplate Corp. in Syracuse, N.Y., wants more finishing shops to become part of this program that pairs the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) with collegiate engineering and technology students.
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Louisiana Plating & Coatings Opens New 80,000 Sq. Ft. Plant
Plant is now providing Louisiana area industries a variety of corrosion protection services, including salt bath nitriding, phosphate, spray coatings and electroless nickel.
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Powder Coater Is Fencing Out The Competition
With the help of Reliant Finishing Systems, a Texas fabricator uses U.S.-built powder coating equipment to compete against foreign imports.
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Coater is Getting Healthy in California’s Central Valley
Advanced Industrial Coatings specializes in medical and food service finishes. The company’s 50,000-sq-ft plant contains a conveyorized powder coating line capable of handling massive amounts of coatings, and an environmental and climate-controlled area for scientific applications.
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Take the Paint Efficiency Audit
Achieve cost savings through more efficient finishing operations. As finishing operations look to stay competitive in an increasingly global economy, it’s no surprise that efficiency has become a popular topic.
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Anodizer Heads West to Get to the East
Southern Aluminum Finishing branches out to the Western U.S. and Asia. The new facility will help service its growing list of customers in the Western and Mountain regions of the U.S. and in Canada, as well as to take advantage of overseas orders from the Pacific Rim.
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VIDEO: Fire Engulfs Aero Chrome Plating in California
The company’s website says that Aero has been serving the aerospace industry since 1992 in a 50,000 sq ft. Van Nuys, CA. facility.
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Cash To Head Axalta Industrial Coatings; PPG Appoints Braun as VP Industrial Coatings
Cash joins Axalta Coating Systems from AkzoNobel Coatings; Braun has been appointed vice president of PPG's industrial coatings, Americas, effective immediately, replacing Richard Zoulek, who has left the company.
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