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automotive

Axalta Report Unveils Color Trends Shaping the Automotive Industry

The report showcases unique color combinations such as Comeback Duo and Smart Duo, and the emerging global automotive trends and latest innovations in color science driving them. 

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Anodizing

Northern Indiana Anodize Opens $8 Million Finishing Plant

NIA has 23 tanks that are 32 feet long to accommodate aluminum parts up to 28 feet in length, as well as 26 smaller tanks.

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Electroplating

Precision Finishing Opens New Addition, Capabilities

A 40,000-square foot-finishing facility that was up and running in 2017 with new equipment, processes and capabilities from the previously constructed facility in 1955.

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management

Electrocoat Learning Management Goes Live

Users also have access to keynotes, panel discussions and workshop sessions from previous events, such as Boot Camp, Ecoat16 and Ecoat18.

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Electroplating

VIDEO: Latest Finishing News for Week of July 24

Watch video of the top news from the finishing world with items on Axalta, CCAI, Carlisle Fluid Technologies, Aluminum Anodizers Council, Pneu-Mech and Sifco ASC.

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Liquid Coating

Biological Wastewater Treatment for Industrial Applications

With tightening limits on nutrients and Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD), is a small scale biological system right for your industrial facility?

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research

Black Chromium Finishing: Beauty and the Beast

Over the past 10 years, there has been commercial development of black chromium deposits from a trivalent chromium electrolyte.  This paper will review the deposit characteristics and operational consideration of these similar, but different chromium plating deposits.

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Electroplating

LeHigh Research Yields Hardest, Thinnest Coatings

Professors net NSF GOALI award to study ultra wear-resistant nitride films

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Electroplating

Beer Barrel Maker Improves Product Quality with Nitric Acid-Free Pickling Process

Absence of citric compounds also addresses the growing concern among beer brewers about residual flavors in the barrels.

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automotive

Carlisle Fluid Technologies Acquires Ecco Finishing

Ecco’s products are used in a variety of application settings, primarily in the automotive, ceramics, leather, wood and plastics industries.

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Liquid Coating

Valence Surface Technologies Sold to Investment Groups

ATL Partners and British Columbia Investment Management purchase Texas-based Valence.

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surfin

NASF Honors Industry Accomplishments

National Association for Surface Finishing honored several in the industry with awards given out at the SUR/FIN trade show in Chicago in June.

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