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Parts Cleaning

Powder Coaters Hope Second Time is the Charm

STP Performance Coatings in Phoenix takes a chance on expansion.

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Liquid Coating

Preventing Soil Contamination is Good Business For Witt Lining Systems

Manufactures flexible PVC liners used for corrosion resistance in process tanks, storage tanks, vats, sumps, pits and containment areas.

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Remediating the Good Earth

An eight-million-dollar, 20-year soil remediation project at a defunct plating shop is cleaned up at half the cost in a fraction of the time.

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CCAI Announces 2013 Award Winners

Jim Docken of DuBois Chemicals receives CCAI's highest honor, The James F. Wright Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Anodizing

Apple Wants Patent To Plate Aluminum Case With Magnetic Material

Could allow attachment of the MacBook to a number of different surfaces, including for example, refrigerators, metallic armbands, or even a wall mounted docking station.

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Oxford U. Researchers Win Prize With Solar Coatings

Develop a hi-tech coating with the potential to significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of new-generation solar photovoltaic cells.

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Wayne State Engineering Professor Wins NASF Award

Yinlun Huang awarded the 2013 National Association for Surface Finishing’s Scientific Achievement Award.

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Anodizing

Hardide Has Successful Hard Chrome Replacement Test

Second test phase expected to be completed by the end of 2013; coating will be approved for use on a specific AgustaWestland helicopter rotor blade component,

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Electroplating

Marko Duffy Wraps Up NAMF-NE Presidency

Duffy's last column for the NAMF-NE newsletter states the obvious: It’s not what you know; it’s who you know.

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Liquid Coating

Guarding Against Counterfeit Parts

We have been doing a lot of defense work lately and are concerned about counterfeit parts. How can we protect ourselves?

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GAME Changers

Phoenix company APSM builds and finishes gaming devices for the casino industry, including all electronics and harnesses.

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DiamonDyze in the Rough

A pair of coaters—who are also racing enthusiasts—say they have made a significant advance in aluminum anodizing using ceramics to produce an extremely hard, corrosion- and wear-resistant anodic oxide coating.

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