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Powder Coating

NDSU researchers develop coatings from crops

Several agricultural crops could play a significant role in biobased resins and coatings recently developed by researchers at North Dakota State University. Scientists at NDSU have developed biobased resins that may prove to be a “game changer” in coatings and resin technology. The NDSU researchers have developed a family of resins from renewable raw materials, creating resins that eliminate hazardous components such as formaldehyde and bisphenol-A. The resins are based on sucrose and vegetable oils, and can be varied to perform in many applications and industries.

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Liquid Coating

NAI Coating Show 2011

NACE International and the Powder Coating Institute host the 2011 NAICS in Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 4 - 6. The event promises top-of-the-line programming and an exciting show floor.

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Liquid Coating

Beam from Sept 11 gets Products Finishing's help

Sculptor asks PF’s help in finishing 9/11 memorials

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DeFelsko founder Frank Koch succumbs

Inspection instrument pioneer was 77

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Anodizing

A Mighty Wind for Finishers

Here in the U.S., the wind energy market grew by about 60 percent from 2009 to 2010, and with more than 40,000 installed megawatts, we rank second to China. Those numbers have caught the attention of finishers, who see a new market to plate parts, e-coat or powder coat turbines, or paint and anodize the hundreds of necessary components.

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Electrocoating

Measuring the Surface Area of Fasteners

How do you measure the surface area of a threaded fastener? How much coating would you put on it? How thick of a coating? What about non-threaded fasteners? The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service, of all people, may have come up with the solution for those pondering how to coat sometimes-difficult small pieces using computer imaging and software to compute the area.

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Vacuum Vapor

Closing the Cleaning Loop

To help optimize its solvent vapor degreasing process while minimizing solvent exposure in the workplace and the environment, Miba Bearings US uses Dowper SVG double-stabilized perchloroethylene in the Safecare system from Safechem North America LLC, a subsidiary of Dow Chemical Co.

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nasf

10 Years After Sept. 11: Platers recall tragic day

AC Plating’s Bob McBride knew he was juggling too much when he made plans to go to Washington, D.C., for the 2001 National Association for Surface Finishing’s Washington Forum, an annual government-relations symposium scheduled for September 11, 2001.

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10 Years After Sept. 11: Sculptor asks for PF's help with artwork

Artwork to be displayed in Kansas airports

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Powder Coating

New powder coating plant to bring 30 jobs to Bradenton, FL

Trogan Florida Powder Coating will open 97K square foot building

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A BLAST! Students tour Guyson's robotic blasting plant

Part of their week-long “summer camp” experience

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