MMS Blog

Parts Cleaning 23 Jun 2016

Spray Equipment and Service Center Acquires FinishLine Technologies

FinishLine designs, building, installs, and services spray paint systems used within the industrial and automotive OEM paint and coating market.

aerospace 21 Jun 2016

Sifco White Paper Talks Best Kept Aerospace Secret

The white paper makes the case for a wider adoption of selective plating, both for salvage and repair as well as many OEM applications.

Liquid Coating 20 Jun 2016

BASF Acquiring Surface Treatment Provider Chemetall

BASF to acquire Albemarle’s global surface treatment business for is $3.2 billion; transaction is subject to approval by the relevant authorities and is expected to close by= end of 2016.

Anodizing 19 Jun 2016

Jeff Henderson is Aluminum Anodizers Council new President

Henderson succeeds Rand Baldwin, who announced his retirement to AAC’s Board of Directors in the fall of 2015.

management 17 Jun 2016

ITPS Americas Covers Thermal Processing Industry in the Americas

The program is an event for executives and upper management in the thermal process industry.

Pollution Control 16 Jun 2016

Rosenboom Adding In-House Plating Operations

Officials say the expansion comes after receiving a production contract with the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command to make a HPG spring and HPG pump.

masking 14 Jun 2016

American Plating Power opens Mexico branch

Enrique Valentin will be Latin America sales manager; he has been employed with American Plating Power for the past six years as an application engineer and senior technician for Latin America.

Anodizing 10 Jun 2016

Waterstone Faucets Honored as Region IX Small Business Exporter of the Year

Waterstone Faucets is a vertically integrated kitchen faucet manufacturer that performs numerous finishing operations, from electroplating to polishing to powder coating.

Liquid Coating 10 Jun 2016

PPG to acquire global coatings services provider MetoKote

MetoKote is a Lima, Ohio-based coatings services business with 2015 global sales of approximately $200 million. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter 2016, subject to customary closing conditions.

masking 8 Jun 2016

Techmetals Earns Boeing BAC 5680 Zinc Nickel Approval

Dayton shop says it is first worldwide to be approved for BAC 5680 spec for low hydrogen embrittlement zinc nickel, for replacement of cadmium in the aerospace and defense markets.