MMS Blog

Powder Coating 1 Dec 2019

Powder Coating Week 2020

PCI’s Powder Coating Week 2020 will be held Feb. 17-20 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

aerospace 1 Dec 2019

Quality Finishing Creates New Growth at Apex Anodizing

Apex Anodizing is a Products Finishing Top Shop in the liquid and powder coating benchmarking survey, and growing thanks to a busy aerospace sector.

Electroplating 26 Nov 2019

Hybrid Coatings on Centrifugal Fans in Steel Plants

A centrifugal fan in a steel plant is often exposed to abrasive dust, which results in material loss and a shortage of running time for the fan.

Vacuum Vapor 22 Nov 2019

Sweden's Impact Coatings Developing Hyundai Fuel Cell Coatings

Development agreement of coating technology for metal bipolar plates, a key component of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

aerospace 18 Nov 2019

U.S. Air Force Qualifies PPG Aerocron Aerospace Ecoat Primer

System installed at Air Force technology center in Georgia for coating parts.

Industry 4.0 12 Nov 2019

FANUC America Opens New North Campus Robotics and Automation Facility

New 461,000-square-foot North Campus robotics and automation facility opened in Auburn Hills, Michigan, on Oct. 22.

Parts Cleaning 11 Nov 2019

Test to Find Answers to a Cleaning Solution Dilemma

Finding the best cleaning fluid for a specific application is possible by carrying out practical trials, backed by lab analyses.

Liquid Coating 8 Nov 2019

Powder Coater Hosts U.S. Senator for Workforce Discussion

JOBS Act is bipartisan legislation that makes high-quality and rigorous short-term job training programs more affordable by expanding access to Pell Grants for low-income students.

Electroplating 6 Nov 2019

Electrochemical Destruction of Perfluorooctanesulfonate in Electroplating Wastewaters - 1st & 2nd Quarterly Report

This is the first report on a new NASF-AESF Foundation research project dealing with PFAS - a critical issue for the surface finishing industry. The project will study an electrochemical, destructive treatment strategy for the remediation of relevant PFASs in electroplating wastewater. The overall objective is to utilize a cost-effective reactive electrochemical membrane (REM) for the removal of PFAS from synthetic electroplating wastewater.

marine 6 Nov 2019

America’s Cup Partners With AkzoNobel’s Awlgrip Brand

Awlgrip will be the official coatings supplier for New York Yacht Club’s American Magic team, which will challenge for the 36th America’s Cup.

research 4 Nov 2019

Improved Process Capabilities for Groove Repair

Advanced selective plating techniques have been developed for the challenging application of repairing internal grooves that have experienced severe corrosion. Many groove configurations require uniform, high-thickness deposition of a plated deposit onto any, or all, of the surfaces with a minimal need for intermediate machining steps. This paper demonstrates how a combination of an engineered, wrap-less anode design along with optimized computer controlled operating parameters has led to reduced downtime, high quality and repeatable selective plating repairs.