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Electrocoating

PPG Appoints Shelley Bausch VP Global Industrial Coatings

Bausch joins PPG from Dow Corning, where she began her career in 1988. Most recently she was business vice president, finished products, based in Midland, Mich.

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The State of the Global Coatings Industry

Orr & Boss estimates that in 2012 the global coatings industry was U.S. $110 billion on approximately 34 billion liters.

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NASF Raises Concerns over EPA Stormwater Discharge Rule

NASF has raised concerns over the proposed revisions, particularly related to the benchmark values that EPA and state agencies will be using for compliance.

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Parts Cleaning

From Nitric Acid Dip Cleaning To Closed-Loop Solvent Cleaning

Superior Products in Ohio has reduced annual water consumption from two million gallons to zero, dropped daily cleaning labor from 15 hours to one per day, and has achieved better cleaning results.

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Parts Cleaning

Parts Cleaning On Display in Germany

Show attracts nearly 5,000 visitors, 260 exhibitors

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Parts Cleaning

Who Needs Precision Cleaning?

Development and selection of solvents for precision cleaning.

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curing

Ultra Savings for UV-Cured Powder Coating

UV-Cured powder coatings are viable substitutes for solvent liquid coatings

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masking

Coating by the Billions

A Raymond Tinnerman coats automotive parts fasteners and clips … a lot of them

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Powder Coating

Trimite Powders Expanding Operations In South Carolina

The $3.7 million investment will double the size of their current facility and be completed by January, 2014.

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Electroplating

Keco Coatings Granted Second License By Dupont

One of an elite group of only 26 Licensed Industrial Applicators in the U.S., KECO has been applying range of Teflon coatings for more than two decades.

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Powder Coating

Battle for CARC Powder Coating

Sherwin-Williams and PPG were awarded research grants by the Department of Defense in June 2012 to develop a zero-volatile organic compound, zero-hazardous air pollutant exterior topcoat to replace the military’s current generation of liquid-applied chemical agent resistant coatings (CARC) by 2015.

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masking

Titan Metal Fabricators, De Dietrich Process Systems Open Joint Venture China Manufacturing Facility

  Titan Metal Fabricators Co., Ltd. celebrated its official grand opening on December 12 in the Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, China.

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