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NASF Bright Design Challenge Selects Scholarship Winners
Leonard Takata, Yuyol Lee, Minwoo Song and Andrew Bianchi win scholarships
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PCI Executive Director Rodger Talbert Steps Down
Leaving June 1; also giving up role as PCI Technical Director.
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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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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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PPG Aerospace Coatings Create ‘All Black’ Livery For Air New Zealand
Aircraft honoring world champion rugby team wear ‘green’ PPG coatings
Read MorePPG 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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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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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
WatchAerospace 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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