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How To Choose and Use Non-Woven Abrasives

Abrasive products are usually categorized as bonded abrasives and coated abrasives, but there is a third category that prepares and applies a final finish to the surface, these are non-woven abrasives . . .

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Disc Drive Parts Cleaning

  Question: My company is working with several disc drive parts manufacturers.

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Carbonates in Cyanide Plating Baths

Question: What causes carbonates to form in a cyanide plating bath?

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Dot-Commentary: Design for Usability

One of the things that I love about the Internet is that anybody with a computer and a modem or a library card can use it.

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Electroless Nickel on Aluminum

Question: We want to plate aluminum with electroless nickel.

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Perspectives: Solvent Alternatives

Recently, I attended The Eleventh Annual International Workshop on Solvent Substitution and the Elimination of Toxic Substance and Emissions.

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Fire at Mid-Atlantic Finishing

Was anyone hurt? Were all the chemicals contained? Do you have a contingency plan? Is your insurance up to date?  

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On My Mind: SGP and MP&M

When the Strategic Goals Program (SGP) was created, I was fairly impressed with the idea.

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Keeping Pretreatment Simple

When Johnston Metalwork decided to add pretreatment to its shop, it didn't want anything complicated, meaning no wastewater treatment or lots of chemicals to deal with...

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Nothing but Net: A Dot-Com Survival Kit

It seems that every time I pick up a newspaper or log on to the Web, I read about another Dot-Com going belly-up.

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Framing Up a New Wastewater Treatment System

An expanding business and budgetary constraints forced Nielsen & Bainbridge to handle its wastewater treatment system expansion more creatively...

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Painting More Efficiently

To keep your customers happy, paint managers must produce high-quality parts. To keep the boss happy, paint managers must also do it efficiently...

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