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Question: I am seeking a simple treatment system for the elimination of approximately 10 gallons of plating rinse water per day coming from a copper pyrophosphate bath, a nickel sulfamate bath and a gold cyanide bath.

Massachusetts finisher Independent Plater switches with the help of TURI university program

Progressive Coatings in Chicago has seen a 600 percent increase in its business with Fluidized Bed, Vinyl Plastisol Dip Coatings

Spending time on the shop floor can save your job and your business. Gemba is a Japanese word meaning “real place.” In business, the gemba is the place where value is created. In manufacturing, the gemba is the shop floor.

In July of this year, our NASF Report featured a major success for the surface finishing industry, the results of a 2014-2016 study of wastewater discharged to the POTWs in Milwaukee.  What follows here is the story going back 30 years, when an initial study of Milwaukee metal finishers’ discharge to the POTWs dramatically refuted the negative image portrayed by others.  It’s only gotten better since.

EPS filter elements last longer, are easily recycled

Polaris' finishing department made sure its cleaning and pretreatment process was doing the job right before they electrocoated and powder coated popular off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, motorcycles and military vehicles. SEE THE VIDEO

I am a hobbyist who wants to set up a small scale plating for copper and nickel. I’m thinking in terms of one- or two-gallon tanks. Can you give me details on how to go about doing this?

What do you think about iron phosphatizing and wastewater issues?

We had some more readers respond to our latest discussion on used powder disposal.