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Electroplating

Protective Coatings Properties are Topic of Proposed New ASTM Standard

Dry fall coatings are manufactured and sold by a number of coating manufacturers and their inherent dry fall properties are critical in avoiding damage to property adjacent to and below spraying operations, yet there is no known standardized procedure to evaluate whether these coatings possess dry fall properties on surfaces of varying temperature.

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Powder Coating

It's "Time" for Carefree AZ Sundial to get Powder Coated

Renovation will update anodized copper sculpture

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Electroplating

From Metal Finishing to the NFL?

Former Cleveland Black Oxide employee in St. Louis camp

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Electroplating

$215,000 Research Grant For Eliminating Chromate Conversion Waste

Fort Collins, CO, company Ionedge Corp. gets EPA grant to study waste elimination in the metal finishing process.

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basics

Nitric Acid Passivation and EH&S Impact

I am looking for safety/environmental requirements to set up a nitric acid cleaning and passivation system.

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Electroplating

Two Massachusetts Platers Merge

Standard Plating joins with Independent Plating

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Powder Coating

3 New Databases Have Info on 1,000s of Chemicals

Searchable databases on chemical toxicity and exposure data now available

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management

California Ready to Add New VOC Rule

The American Coating Association and several Southern California metal coaters are battling the South Coast Air Quality Management District over proposed Rule 1107 that calls for lowering volatile organic compound emissions from the coating of metal parts and products. The proposed rule applies to metal coatings or companies that perform metal stripping operations, and to all manufacturers, distributors and suppliers of metal coatings.

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Electrocoating

Trump meets with plating company execs

Former presidential candidate talks with F.M. Callahan & Sons officials

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Electroplating

Plating & Finishing Class Offered by Art Center

Community center offers to teach residents about finishing

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Powder Coating

Coating industry recovering, says Census Bureau

$18 billion shipped in 2010 on more than 1.1 billion gallons

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Anodizing

Coater Banks on Non-Sticktoitness

DECC uses Whitford coating to open new markets

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