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A Colorful Collaboration
Manufacturer adds color with powder coating, nearly doubling finishing throughput.
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Disconnecting Cadmium
Sheffield Platers is in pursuit of what some may call the Holy Grail of connector plating: coming up with a suitable replacement for cadmium coatings on electrical connectors used by many U.S. military organizations.
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Plating Q&A: Low Stress Nickel Deposit
Plating expert Art Kushner answers a question about parts that specify a “low stress” nickel deposit, and whether there are numerical ranges for high- and low- stress nickel deposits.
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Powder Coat Q&A: A Good System Gone Bad
Rodger Tallbert answers a question about a problem with light coating on an automotive product, where the coater is not getting the kind of coverage they got when the system was new.
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CCAI Presents "Basics of Powder Coating" in Spanish on April 16 in Miami
Conceptos Básicos de Pintura en Polvo en Español, to be held on Tuesday, April 16 at the American Welding Society Headquarters Conference Center in Miami, FL.
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New USGA Stimpmeter Shines in Anodized Blue
Day Tool & Mfg. in Whitehouse, NJ and B&M Finishers in Kenilworth, NJ work to get the blue anodized look just right.
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NASF's AESF Foundation Awards Scholarship
Sudarshan Narayanan is currently focusing on transparent conductors for optoelectronic applications and is expecting to complete his doctorate in 2013
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Haviland Announces 100% Employee Ownership
Prior to this sale, Haviland Enterprises was owned 54 percent by the Haviland family and 46 percent by Haviland employees.
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CCAI SoCal Chapter Partners with Marines on 'Toys for Tots' Event
Nearly 190 toys collected to help disadvantaged kids
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BASF building new automotive coatings plant in Shanghai
New production facility is scheduled to commence operation in early 2014; complements the company’s existing plant in Shanghai, which has been operating for more than 15 years.
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Nickel Saved is Nickel Earned
Those in the plating industry are continually working on the development of a process to recover valuable nickel from spent electroless nickel solutions. Now there is a two-stage method to do just that.
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Microabrasive Precision Shot Peening
Precision shot peening brings an entirely new concept to the field of microabrasive blasting, and it is complementary to its larger cousin. Using glass bead media, several companies have been shot peening for years with microabrasive blasting technology.
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