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regulation

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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Liquid Coating

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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military

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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Electroplating

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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research

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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sustainability

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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Liquid Coating

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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Electroplating

Control Electropolishing Celebrates New Headquarters

New administrative offices open in the Queens’ Atlas Park Mall, while the production facility remains in the Williamsburg area on Walworth Street.

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research

Electrocodeposition of MCrAlY Coatings for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications - 5th Quarterly Research Report

The objective of the work is to study and optimize the MCrAlY electrocodeposition process to improve the coating oxidation/corrosion performance. In this quarter, work focused on preparation and characterization of CrAlY-based alloy powders for the planned research activities in Task 2: The Effect of CrAlY Particle size on CrAlY Particle Incorporation.

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aerospace

Techmetals Earns Boeing Approvals

The approvals include electroless nickel, cadmium, hard coating aluminum anodize, and sulfuric anodize.

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