MMS Blog

Electroplating 1 Jul 2016

Top Shops Profile: Barry Avenue Plating

Los Angeles-based Barry Avenue Plating was founded in 1947, and Chuck Kearsley is president and Cruz Maldonado is vice president of operations. They opened BAP Aerospace in Mexico in 2012 to serve that region.

masking 1 Jul 2016

Apple's Novak Goes from Shop To Corporate Leader

Sean Novak went from being a young chemical engineer at Anoplate to manager of the surface finishing team at Apple Inc.

Electroplating 1 Jul 2016

40-Under-40: Class of 2016

Young professionals are a vital asset to the finishing industry. Products Finishing is recognizing the industry’s top young talent through an annual 40-Under-40 program.

Pollution Control 1 Jul 2016

40 Under 40: Apple's Sean Novak Leads New Generation of Finishing Leaders

Novak has reached the apex of his career (so far) as manager of the surface finishing team at Apple Inc., a Cupertino, California-based conglomerate that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, software and online services.

Liquid Coating 1 Jul 2016

Racking Up Profits in Coating Operations

Racking is often the first process when parts arrive at a finishing shop, but it’s the last process anyone thinks about when it comes to improving efficiencies and reducing costs.

Mechanical Finishing 1 Jul 2016

Polishing Demands Lead to Innovative Solution

In the world that is Kinninger Production Welding in New Bremen, Ohio, polishing is not the biggest operation that owner Kevin Thobe’s team has to contend with—but it had certainly become one of the most demanding.

Electroplating 1 Jul 2016

July Go-To-Guy: Eduardo Leonides, Industrial Polishing Services

Leonides started working at IPS in the late 1990s as an engineering assistant, and has since also worked as junior engineer, materials and planning supervisor and an account executive.

Electroplating 29 Jun 2016

SRG Global Moving to World Headquarters in Troy

The new facility has more than 51,000-square-feet and will house the company’s support staff; it will be home to more than 250 employees.

Parts Cleaning 27 Jun 2016

Astro Pak Acquires Chemko Technical Services

The newly acquired AS9100 Certified Class 10,000 square foot cleanroom facility in Florida equips the company to better serve the precision cleaning, testing and passivation requirements.

Powder Coating 25 Jun 2016

K Alpha Acquires Bowman Analytics

Company acquires their long-time partner for x-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation for coating thickness measurement, elemental analysis and solution analysis.

economics 24 Jun 2016

Products Finishing's Steve Kline Jr. Delivers CCAI PCI Economic Talk

Director of Market Intelligence for parent company Gardner Business Media, spoke at the CCAI PCI annual meeting on the topic "2016 Economic Trends in Finishing."