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automotive

Axalta Receives Daimler Truck Masters of Quality Supplier Award

The award honors top suppliers of components and services to Freightliner Trucks and Western Star brand trucks.

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Electroplating

FAA Proposes $3.9 Million Civil Penalty Against Boeing Over Plated Parts

Slat tracks were weakened by a condition known as hydrogen embrittlement that occurred during cadmium-titanium plating.

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Top Shops

Westside Finishing Honored as 'Super 60' Winner

Westside Finishing, which has been named a Products Finishing Top Shops for several years, has previously won the Super 60 award.

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sustainability

California Issues Mandatory PFAS Testing Requirements for Chrome Plating Facilities

California State Water Resources Control Board issued order requiring mandatory environmental assessment at 271 chrome plating facilities.

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Parts Cleaning

Technical Cleanliness Expert Days Brings Together Cleaning Community for Learning and Networking

The second Technical Cleanliness Expert Days event this year expanded to one-and-a-half days, with the theme of “Cleanliness in Production and Critical Processes.”

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Vacuum Vapor

A Lustrous Example of Expanding a Plating Operation

Ohio’s Lustrous Metal Coatings Pins Growth on Acquiring Other Manufacturing Operations

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Powder Coating

Powder Coating Week 2020

PCI’s Powder Coating Week 2020 will be held Feb. 17-20 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

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aerospace

Quality Finishing Creates New Growth at Apex Anodizing

Apex Anodizing is a Products Finishing Top Shop in the liquid and powder coating benchmarking survey, and growing thanks to a busy aerospace sector.

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Electroplating

Hybrid Coatings on Centrifugal Fans in Steel Plants

A centrifugal fan in a steel plant is often exposed to abrasive dust, which results in material loss and a shortage of running time for the fan.

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automotive

Sweden's Impact Coatings Developing Hyundai Fuel Cell Coatings

Development agreement of coating technology for metal bipolar plates, a key component of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Electrocoating

U.S. Air Force Qualifies PPG Aerocron Aerospace Ecoat Primer

System installed at Air Force technology center in Georgia for coating parts.

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Powder Coating

FANUC America Opens New North Campus Robotics and Automation Facility

New 461,000-square-foot North Campus robotics and automation facility opened in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on Oct. 22. 

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