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Vacuum Vapor

Transforming Aerospace Metal Finishing Processes

Replacement technologies and improved conventional wet processes move forward in a challenging marketplace.

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Liquid Coating

Improving First-Pass Transfer Efficiency

Want to boost powder coating productivity? Look to your process, not your powder.

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Electroplating

Reinventing Chrome Coatings

Low-temperature arc vapor deposition can provide an alternative to hexavalent chromium plating.

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Flexible Finishing Fits Automated Cells

Radially compliant tool facilitates robotic deburring

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A Holiday Wish

The end of the year always offers a time to reflect on events of the past 12 months and to look forward to the challenges and opportunities of the upcoming year.

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Liquid Coating

MON MACT Impact

The clock is ticking for paint and coating operations to reduce HAP emissions and meet EPA guidelines.

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Parts Cleaning

The Hull Cell: Key to Better Electroplating - Part II

How to use it for planning, preventive maintenance and troubleshooting.

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Globalization

In his new book The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century, author Thomas L.

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Chemical Switch Cuts Costs, Improves Safety

By replacing the sodium sulfide chemistry used in its nitrogen oxide (NOx) scrubber with a non-hazardous NOx control chemistry, ChemResearch Co. Inc. (CRC; Phoenix, AZ) reduced its operating costs and eliminated a health and safety hazard.

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Help Yourself and Others To Win the Tax Game...Investing... and Hurricane Victims

The direct lifeline for helping readers of this column save taxes, create tax-free wealth and beat up the IRS—all legally—is my national Network.

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