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Electroplating

Dr. Phil To The Rescue for Electroplaters

Techmetals’ president Phil Brockman is often the last electroplater that some customers visit on their search for solutions to persistent finishing issues or to plate unique parts. But it’s easy to see why most major aerospace, medical, defense, oil/gas, mold shops, and automotive manufacturers end up at Techmetals’ expansive facilities in Dayton, Ohio.

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Sing Us a Song Piano Man Carl Izzo

Carl Izzo is the kind of guy I want to be when I grow up, which wouldn’t be so sad if I wasn’t already five decades into my life. But Carl has taught all of us that that there is still time to do good even at the half-century mark.

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curing

Game Changer: Powder Coatings Get CARC Approval

In a normal R&D scenario, a coating specification is written and approved by a large customer or OEM, then followed by a race among suppliers to meet the spec and sell to the finishing masses. But that isn’t the case for most of the military and other finishes Hentzen Coatings of Milwaukee, Wisc., has developed over the years.

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energy

Infrared Curing: Evaluating the characteristics of IR energy

Infrared (IR) energy can be used as a source of heat to cure a variety of industrial coatings. Such infrared curing applies energy to the coated part surface by direct transmission from an IR emitter, which can provide source temperatures of anywhere from 500 to 4,200°F

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Powder Coating

Film Build Control

Are you aware of any standards on powder coating film thickness on complex structures?

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sustainability

Enthone Introduces Ankor Hydraulics Hard Chrome Process

Specially engineered for the hydraulics/fluid power market, the company says the process delivers exceptional corrosion resistance, while offering a more sustainable alternative versus other high efficiency, etch-free hard chrome processes currently available today.

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Electroplating

Wisconsin's Hartford Finishing Growing, Adding 94 Jobs

Governor Scott Walker joined company leaders to announce the addition of 94 new jobs at Hartford Finishing, Inc., a powder coating and painting firm, and its sister companies. The jobs announcement coincides with the opening of the company’s new paint line.

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masking

Axalta Coating Systems Build Bikes for Boys & Girls Club of Philadelphia

The event used a bike building exercise conducted by Odyssey to show Axalta participants how to work as a team and continually improve the customer experience.

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aerospace

PPG Electrocoat Primer Qualified To Aerospace Specification

Aerocron electrocoat primer meets SAE International’s Aerospace Material Specification 3144 for anodic electrodeposition primer for aircraft applications.

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NASF West Coast Bright Design Winners Picked

Martin Francisco, Nicole Eng, Woosung Kim and Kasia Burzynska win scholarships from California NASF groups

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curing

PPG Appoints Shelley Bausch VP Global Industrial Coatings

Bausch joins PPG from Dow Corning, where she began her career in 1988. Most recently she was business vice president, finished products, based in Midland, Mich.

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The State of the Global Coatings Industry

Orr & Boss estimates that in 2012 the global coatings industry was U.S. $110 billion on approximately 34 billion liters.

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