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Electrocoating

Ecoat Express Revolutionizes GE Locomotives

GE Transportation adds an electrocoat system to ease manufacturing bottlenecks with the help of savvy suppliers who know how to get the project done.

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Anodizing

Anodizing Brake Calipers

The process places special demands on the coater, and on the process suppliers.

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surfin

2018 Hall of Fame Inductees

Abner Brenner, Dr. George E.F. Brewer, Daniel Brockman, Richard Crain, Pieter de Lange, Ronald Duncan, Dr. Erwin Gemmer, David Marsh and Blair Vandivier were picked by an independent panel of industry executives.  

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Parts Cleaning

A Look at Parts Cleaning Across the Continents

A visit to the parts2clean show examines how manufacturing views parts cleaning. 

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basics

How to Get Sprayed Metal Coatings to Stick

MIT research reveals that, in bonding of sprayed metal coatings, melting sometimes hurts rather than helps.

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Electroplating

Southwest Metal Finishing Gets New Ownership

The New Berlin, Wisconsin, company was purchased through a court-supervised receivership proceeding by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Armor Group Inc.

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Electroplating

Cyber Security Is NASF Chicago Midwest Chapter Meeting Topic

FBI Special Agent Kenneth “K.C.” Bixby will address “Cyber Theft/Protecting Your Cyber World” at the event, to be held February 22 at at Belvedere Banquets in in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.

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Electroplating

Michigan Bill Targets PFAS

The $23.2 million allocation will provide testing, monitoring and technical assistance at more than a dozen sites across Michigan where PFAS have been found in groundwater.

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Anodizing

AAC Warns About Tariffs on Imported Primary Aluminum

The group says tariffs on imported primary aluminum products will likely be passed along the value chain until it impacts consumers, and they will make U.S. manufacturers of aluminum products even less competitive against low-cost producers like Chinese companies.

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Electrocoating

Check Out What's In Store at Ecoat18

Discover what electrocoating can bring to a finishing operation by watching this promotional video for Ecoat18, which will take place at the Electrocoat Conference, April 24-26 at Innisbrook Golf & Spa Resort, Tampa Bay Area, Florida.

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Powder Coating

CCAI’s Powder Coating and Curing Processes Seminar Set for Feb. 20-21 in Alabama

The seminar is co-sponsored by the Infrared Division of the Industrial Heating Equipment Association and Products Finishing magazine.

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medical

New Coating Enables Medical Equipment Manufacturers to Operate at Higher Voltages, Reduced Size

Charge dissipative (CD) coating capability for ceramic parts was launched at RSNA 2017 in Chicago in supporting the development of increasingly compact medical equipment.                 

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