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Drivers of Change

Is your metal finishing software ready for an upgrade?

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How to Optimize Your Reverse Osmosis System for Surface Finishing

High-quality water is essential for a variety of industrial finishing processes, but is too often overlooked. Discover where reverse osmosis fits into your finishing operation, including what it is, how it works and how to get the most out it.

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Liquid Coating

Selecting a Touch-Up Gun for an Automatic Finishing System

Liquid coating expert Steve Romer recommends first looking at how the automatic system is being used.

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How to Cut Costs by Properly Storing Industrial Paints and Powders

Hazardous material storage is about more than just safety precautions. Properly storing industrial chemicals such as paints and powders can lead to significant cost savings.

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7 Steps to Make Buying a Paint Booth Easier

GFS’ Ryan Looker guides you through the process of choosing the right booth for your application.

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Liquid Coating

How to Determine Dry Film Density

Simply put, dry film density is just the mass of the dry paint film divided by the volume of the dry paint film, says BASF’s Tim December.

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How to Achieve Good Grounding

Saying ground is important to proper and safe powder coating is an understatement, contends Parker Ionics’ John Cole.

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How to Pass Mil-DTL-5541F for Aluminum

Luster-On Products’ Steve Gilbert offers some “tricks” to passing Mil-DTL-5541F, Type II, Class 1A for AL 2024.

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Top Shops

How to Read Your Top Shops Customized Benchmarking Report

Video from Michael Guckes from Gardner Intelligence explains how to read and understand your Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking custom reports you received if you took part in the recent survey.

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Tips for Applying Epoxy and High-Solids Paint

Controlling a coating’s thermal viscosity is a top priority, says Sames Kremlin’s Steve Romer.

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