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Electroplating

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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Liquid Coating

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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Liquid Coating

How to Limit Rack Twisting in a Coating Line

Mighty Hook’s Scott Rempala offers some suggestions for minimizing rack twisting in a coating line.

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Anodizing

How to Minimize Fading of Anodized Colors

All color-anodized parts fade, but if the process is optimized, you can expect years with minimal loss in color, says Reliant Aluminum Products’ Mark Jozefowicz.

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Electroplating

How to Keep a Plating Bath from Slowing Down

Alkaline plating baths form carbonates over time, and these carbonates cause the baths to become less efficient, resulting in slower plating speed. Asterion’s Roger Sowinski outlines three options for removing carbonates.

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Electroplating

Michigan Takes Steps to Eliminate PFOS, PFOA and PFAS

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is requiring wastewater treatment plants with industrial pretreatment programs to screen for and eliminate these compounds commonly used in the metal-finishing industry.

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Liquid Coating

How to Audit a Liquid Paint System

To correct paint system settings that have drifted over time, Sames Kremlin’s Steven Romer strongly recommends annual audits.

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Powder Coating

How to Control Orange Peel and Powder Thickness

Powder expert Rodger Talbert outlines three steps you can take to limit orange peel with powder coating.

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Liquid Coating

How to Get Sprayed Metal Coatings to Stick

MIT research reveals that, in bonding of sprayed metal coatings, melting sometimes hurts rather than helps.

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How to Test Coatings with Nanoindentation

Fischer Technology’s Rahul Nair explains the benefits of using nanoindentation to measure a coating’s mechanical properties.

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