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Heat Up Your Maintenance Plan for Best Oven Performance

Improve efficiency and profitability with a preventive maintenance program for your industrial heating equipment.

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Finishing Activity Continued to Contract in November, Closing at 43.6

Finishing activity has now contracted for eight months in a row, not unlike other manufacturing segments tracked. 

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Powder Coating

Causes for Cross Contamination

Cross contamination of powder coatings is often the result of poor habits in the powder room. Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert offers an example of how to mitigate cross contamination. 

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Troubleshooting the Drying Process

For some technicians who are new to spraying water coatings, it can be a huge learning curve, as the basics of reduction, spraying and drying are much different than those of the solvent world.

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Expanding Custom Work Enables Top Shop to Shine

This six-person shop rallies together to offer diverse finishing jobs that are growing to include custom show parts for automobiles and motorcycles. 

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NADCAP Shop Digitizes to Eliminate Paper Trail

Customizable ERP software has transformed a 27-year-old manual metal finishing job shop into a state-of-the-art paperless company with full digital traceability in about 10 months.

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Electroplating

Episode 38: On the Line — Looking Back on 2023

PF’s On the Line discusses some of the issues that were top of mind for industry during the past year.

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sustainability

Advantages to Pumped Eductor Agitation

Not all agitation methods are created equally. Pumped agitation with eductor nozzles can improve process tanks and quickly show a reduction in operating costs while keeping staff safe, following environmental legislation and preventing pollution.

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5 Things to Know About XRF Calibration

The proactive approach of validating measurement performance and calibrating only as often as necessary improves quality, consistency and reduces costs.

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Recoating Best Practices

Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert offers advice for recoating successfully without excess orange peel or inconsistent gloss. 

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Electroplating

Troubleshooting 5 Common Racking Problems for Platers

Being aware of usual issues that might occur during the plating process will prepare platers by helping them know how to avoid them all together or how to fix them if they happen.  

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Is Your Time Being “Virtually Eliminated”?

A few antidotes for those longing for the good old days (pre-2020)

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