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Matching Specialists to Specialties
Everyone has two or three fields that come naturally to them. Asking your team about their specialties may help you find ways to optimize your business.
Read MoreAn Introduction to AESF Research Project #R-122: Electrochemical Approaches to Treatment of PFAS in Plating Wastewater
For 2021, NASF-AESF Foundation Research Board has selected a project on addressing the problem of PFAS and related chemicals in plating wastewater streams, studying PFAS destruction via electrooxidation and electrocoagulation. This report introduces the project and outlines the work to be undertaken.
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Gold's Many Uses
Over many years, AESF/NASF stalwart Jack Dini contributed a series of fascinating columns to Plating & Surface Finishing, under the title Fact or Fiction?. What follows is another welcome addition to his output for the NASF. Here, Jack discusses the many uses for gold, some involving surface finishing, some not.
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Evolving Automation in Automotive
A look at the latest liquid coating technologies for the automotive sector from leading robotics and surface finishing technology providers
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The Changing Landscape of Automotive
Products Finishing editor-in-chief Scott Francis considers the future of automotive beyond the pandemic and in the advent of electric vehicles.
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Mitigating Water Condensation
Mike Bonner of Saint Clair Systems discusses how to avoid paint defects caused by condensation resulting from compressed air used for atomizers.
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Achieving a Mirror Finish
New buffing technology minimizes clean-up and improves quality, cycle time and finish on automatic/robotic applications.
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Business Activity Growth Slows During November
Lackluster New Orders and Supplier Delivery Activity Challenges Stymie Finishers
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Clemco Employee Restoring 51-Year-Old Blast Cabinet
Eric Brukerhoff of Clemco recently received a career center’s old Zero BNP-270 blast cabinet, and plans to refurbish it to its full glory.
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Managing Gold Plating for Electrical Contacts
With electrical contacts continuing to grow smaller, platers need to know how to manage the three key considerations of gold plating: thickness, purity and underplate chemistry.
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How to Prevent Outgassing of Iron Castings
Verney Denerville of TIGER Drylac outlines the procedure used to mitigate the outgassing of iron castings.
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