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Not Your Average Recreational Powder Coating Facility
Lippert Components converted the paint line at one of its facilities to a manual powder coating line. At another facility it converted to an automated system. The success of these two plants is now being felt at all of its facilities...
Read MorePalladium-Free Direct-Plate Technology for Plating on Plastics
Plating on plastics traditionally has been accomplished using tin/palladium colloidal-type activation systems with electroless chemistries. Although well understood, these processes can be costly and require extended process lines with high water consumption...
Read MoreAvoid nickel plating losses
Guidelines to help prevent the loss of nickel and its salts from the finishing shop.
Read MoreA Current Affair: Examining the "No Amperage" Phenomenon
If you are performing a coating process that requires the use of a rectifier, you may have experienced the "no amperage" problem. Here's a look at the phenomenon and some solutions…
Read MoreThe Science of Small Grows BIG
Nanotechnology is everywhere. It is even making advancements in the finishing market...
Read MoreTotal Automation Finds a Total Solution
When Jim Galvin, owner of Total Automation, Inc., decided to reinvest in his shop's cleaning and pretreatment process, he turned to an "all-in-one" cleaning and pretreatment process…
Read MoreReality Check: All I Ever Really Needed To Know, I Learned in Finishing
With apologies to Robert Fulgham, here's what the finishing industry has taught me about life… Change is good.
Read MoreDiagnosing the Symptoms
Recently, one of my colleagues and I were sharing sob stories about problems that we are each having with our vehicles.
Read MoreA "Fishy" Philosophy
Professional Plating, Inc. (Brillion, WI) has established itself as one of the industry's premier job shops. Its formula for success includes a strong safety acumen, a plethora of value-added services and – inspired by the most unlikely of role-models – a whole lot of fun…
Read MoreFine Tune Cleaning and Rinsing with Ultrasonic Retrofits
The same characteristics of ultrasonics that make them an important component on a new cleaning or pretreatment line also make them a valuable retrofit on an existing process line…
Read MoreTips for Improving Painting Lines
How design engineering can save time and money while lessening pollution and improving your paint finish...
Read MoreHow to Motivate People
Here are a few of the things you can do to provide your people with the incentive to do well.
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