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Changes Bring Out the Best for Plating Shop
Arizona’s CRC Surface Technologies Improves Performance, Profits with Management Changes
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Impact of Intermetallic Species on Cast Aluminum Alloys for Anodizing Applications
Alloys with higher silicon concentrations can inhibit the growth of anodic oxide films under galvanostatic and potentiostatic conditions.
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Finishing Index Moves Higher on Strong Production Activity
March Finishing Index closed at 52.5.
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Parts2clean Offers Latest in Cleaning Technology
The largest parts cleaning trade show in the world, parts2clean offers a peek into the future of U.S. parts cleaning regulations and technology in a travel-friendly part of the world.
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Kenworth Starts $140 Million Paint Expansion
The facility is expected to open in 2021, adjacent to the current plant and represents a nearly 25% increase to the current 502,000-square-foot plant.
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Carlisle Fluid Technologies Acquires Hosco, IDS and Classic Precision
Hosco makes paint circulating and application finishing fittings; IDS manufactures dispense systems and custom engineered fluid controls; and Classic Precision specializes in precision machining for aerospace and defense manufacturing processes.
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ResinTech Breaks Ground on New Cation Resin Plant
The $138.8 million development project includes 353,000 square feet of new construction on approximately 27 acres, and will open in 2020.
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Loan Helps Carolina Metal Finishing Create Jobs in South Carolina
Facility supplies contract services for metal parts cleaning, assembly, industrial painting and powder coating.
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The Relationship Between Vickers Hardness and Universal Hardness
The Vickers indenter hardness test, based on indenter displacement under test load (universal hardness), is being used for an increasing number of applications. The new method is also subject to much discussion among the experts. An important question is the relationship or the degree of correlation between the new universal hardness test and the classic Vickers hardness test.
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Evaluation of a Simple Thin-Film Ductility Tester and Review of the Ductility of Nickel Sulfamate Deposits
Originally published in 1992, this paper addressed a critical issue in the science of electroforming, that of the measurement and control of deposit ductility.
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PFAS and the Surface Finishing Industry
NASF and its member companies have a long history of environmental stewardship, especially when it comes to PFAS.
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Owens College, Carlisle Hold Spray Finishing Training
Attendees should be involved with industrial, contractor, or maintenance spray finishing applications, or spray equipment sales and distribution.
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