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Parts Cleaning

Solving Adhesion Issues from Laser Cuts

Remove scale with a pretreatment solution.

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A Conversation With ... Jim Andrews, Pneu-Mech Systems

Andrews recently promoted to President

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Anodizing

PEO coatings sparking new interest

Plasma electrolytic oxide surface treatment for aluminum, magnesium or titanium

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nasf

NASF Government & Industry Affairs Update: Selected Developments

The American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) intends to develop new Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) and Biological Exposure Indices (BEIs) for nickel and cobalt.

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Special Joint NASF Update

The U.S. Department of Defense in early May issued its final procurement rule governing military uses of hexavalent chromium.

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Parts Cleaning

Membrane Technology by Electroplating Processes

A broad overview of the latest developments on membrane technology and their advantages in the electroplating industry.

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surfin

Chemically Accelerated Vibratory Surface Finishing (CAVSF) with Oxalic Acid-Based Solutions

It has been shown that the inexpensive chemically accelerated vibratory surface finishing (CAVSF) process can reduce the average surface roughness.

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Electrocoating

A Protective Decorative Electrolytic Coloring Process for Aluminum

The main task of this work was to study the influence of the different parameters on the electrolytic coloring process for aluminum.

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management

Finishing Business Roundtable

This may come as a shock to those pundits ready to declare the U.S. a manufacturing wasteland, but this really doesn’t come as a big surprise to those in the industrial community. In 2010, there were more jobs added in manufacturing than were lost - 130,000 of them.

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2011 Washington Forum Wrap-up

Once again, the attendees - more than 100 participants and over 25 speakers - were given straight talk and found that the elections of 2010 had spawned a new climate in Washington, more receptive to promoting industry.

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2020 Future: Ecoating

Electrocoat has long been recognized as a cost effective, environmentally friendly coating process.

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2020 Vision: Anodizing

A look at anodizing in the coming years

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