MMS Blog

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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Electroplating

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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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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Electroplating

Techmetals Earns Boeing Approvals

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

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Electroplating

Epner Technology Produces NIST New Gold Standard

The Brooklyn-based Epner says the process is unique in that it is both ultra-pure at 0.9999, while also bring three times harder than any other 24 Kt. gold.

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Powder Coating

Perfection Industrial Finishing Achieves Nadcap Chemical Processing

Perfection offers metal preparation, chemical processing, powder coating, liquid paint and Cerakote ceramic coatings.

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Parts Cleaning

Vapor Degreasing Process Uses TCE Replacement to Eliminate Hazardous Waste

A solid relationship with a solvent manufacturer has aided Electro-Spec Inc. with the implementation of a trichloroethylene replacement material in its vacuum degreasing unit to clean a customer’s micromachined parts more efficiently.  

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