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Chrome Comes Under Fire...Again
A proposed new standard for occupational exposure to hexavalent chrome suggests lowering the permissible exposure limit to less than 1/50th its current level. Here's a look at the proposed limits, how they were conceived, and how the industry is responding...
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Do It Yourself
Simplex, Inc., a manufacturer of electrical test systems and fuel supply systems, established a need to upgrade its pretreatment line from a three-stage system to a five-stage system. Equipped with experience in fluid transportation and storage, they decided to design and build it themselves...
Read MoreCaustic Bath for Pre-copper Plating
Can you help me come up with the amounts of caustic potash and potassium cyanide that you need to makeup a caustic bath to use to neutralize acids from parts prior to copper plating them.
Read MoreEstimating Finishing Costs
One of the keys to running a successful job shop lies in the ability to accurately assess the costs associated with finishing. Doing so requires that owners and managers examine a variety of factors, including labor, coatings, energy consumption, maintenance and others...
Read MoreJewel of Niles
Niles Mfg. has been framed—frame coated that is! The Ohio-based job shop has found a role as a provider of FrameCoatTM electrocoating of prototype parts for Tier One automotive plants and captive shops...
Read MoreAccelerated Aging Tests
Question: I recently experienced a failure on an accelerated aging test of a polyurethane coating system.
Read MoreIncrease Your Self-Confidence
If self-confidence is not the key to success, it is certainly a major ingredient.
Read MoreQuestions for the Ages
Preventing material waste is a mutual goal for finishers and their customers. Effective communication is critical in this respect. Here are some common questions that anodizers should be prepared to address when working with both new and existing customers…
Read MoreA Baffling Development
When The HON Company, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of office furniture and components, realized that 50% of the paint it was applying was being lost in overspray, it turned to an industry supplier for an innovative solution…
Read MoreOptimizing Paint Durability, Part I
The rapid deployment of military force dictates that military assets be readily available in potential areas of conflict. As a means to this end, military equipment is prepositioned on ships. While the combat systems are sequestered in environmentally controlled holding areas, tactical systems are chained to the deck in a harsh marine environment. Following 24–30 months of marine exposure, the vast majority of once new equipment is in need of selective overhaul…
Read MorePlating for Growth
A new rack plating line has enabled Elkhart Plating to expand into new markets without compromising its barrel zinc plating expertise...
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