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AkzoNobel Shows Color, Passion Of Furniture Finishes In Italy

Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan gathers people coming from all over the world to attend one of the most important furniture-making events

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PPG wins 2012 Automotive News PACE Award for B1:B2 wet-on-wet paint system

8th time PPG has received the award, which honors automotive suppliers’ innovations in products, manufacturing processes and information technology.

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Electrocoating

Metal Processing International Earns Texas Award

Company honored for keeping jobs in Texas.

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New Mexico School Features Eco-Friendly Anodized Walls

Bernalillo Elementary School achieves sustainable design goals using products by Linetec

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Parts Cleaning

PPG Aerospace Coatings Create ‘All Black’ Livery For Air New Zealand

Aircraft honoring world champion rugby team wear ‘green’ PPG coatings

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Liquid Coating

PPG Industries, AkzoNobel Launch New Aerospace Coating Products

The Aerocron primer from PPG’s aerospace coatings group is the first e-coat primer for airframe manufacturers and subcontractors; AkzoNobel’ Metaflex SP brand is a result of a two-year partnership between AkzoNobel Aerospace Coatings and Pantheon Enterprises

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Electroplating

Cyklos Building a Better Finishing Machine

Tornos rolls out its turnkey surface finishing machine, Cyklos, a self-contained apparatus that enables machining shops to integrate wet electrochemical or chemical surface processing into their manufacturing line. SEE THE VIDEO

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NASF REPORT: Is EPA Playing Dirty With Chromium Data?

NASF’s Jeff Hannapel and Christian Richter point to major flaws, bad precedent in EPA chromium air rule. NASF leaders have submitted a 100-page package of comments to the EPA in response to the agency’s proposed rule for chromium finishing operations.

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EPA One Step Closer to Finalizing New Emission Standards

Attorney and environmental expert Anthony Giuliani explains the EPA's new chromium rules due in 2012, which would amend the existing National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Emissions for hard and decorative chromium electroplating and chromium anodizing tanks by lowering the existing NESHAP limits for both existing and new sources.

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Electroplating

Finding Lost Profits In Your Finishing Line

The finishing division of White Castle restaurants teamed with Profit Finders, a continuous improvement company specializing in data collection and analysis, to look at ways to increase process efficiencies.

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Liquid Coating

Sand + Snow Makes Pretreatment Essential

Polaris' finishing department made sure its cleaning and pretreatment process was doing the job right before they electrocoated and powder coated popular off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and military vehicles. SEE THE VIDEO

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Electroplating

Aerospace Drives More Calls for Non-Chrome Passivate Finishes

More finishers are warming up to using non-chrome passivation as a way to satisfy customers who don’t want to use hexavalent chromium for corrosion treatment.

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