Parts Cleaning
Dr. Phil To The Rescue for Electroplaters
Techmetals’ president Phil Brockman is often the last electroplater that some customers visit on their search for solutions to persistent finishing issues or to plate unique parts. But it’s easy to see why most major aerospace, medical, defense, oil/gas, mold shops, and automotive manufacturers end up at Techmetals’ expansive facilities in Dayton, Ohio.
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A Conversation With … William Goughenour
William Goughenour debuts this month as the new paint expert for Products Finishing. He is the Senior Coatings Analyst for the National Center for Coatings Application, Research, and Education (C-Care) in Virginia, which provides one of the most advanced manufacturing laboratories in North America for coating and finishing related process engineering, applied research, training, and education.
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Game Changer: Powder Coatings Get CARC Approval
In a normal R&D scenario, a coating specification is written and approved by a large customer or OEM, then followed by a race among suppliers to meet the spec and sell to the finishing masses. But that isn’t the case for most of the military and other finishes Hentzen Coatings of Milwaukee, Wisc., has developed over the years.
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Wisconsin's Hartford Finishing Growing, Adding 94 Jobs
Governor Scott Walker joined company leaders to announce the addition of 94 new jobs at Hartford Finishing, Inc., a powder coating and painting firm, and its sister companies. The jobs announcement coincides with the opening of the company’s new paint line.
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Axalta Coating Systems Build Bikes for Boys & Girls Club of Philadelphia
The event used a bike building exercise conducted by Odyssey to show Axalta participants how to work as a team and continually improve the customer experience.
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PPG Appoints Shelley Bausch VP Global Industrial Coatings
Bausch joins PPG from Dow Corning, where she began her career in 1988. Most recently she was business vice president, finished products, based in Midland, Mich.
Read MorePeriodic Reverse Electrocleaning
We are running high-speed, reel-to-reel plating of gold-nickel-tin and palladium-nickel, and using bipolar cleaning. I am somewhat confused about electrical connections in bipolar cleaning systems.
Read MoreMil-Spec for Compressed Air Quality
Is there a procedure or mil-spec for point-of-use inspection to verify the cleanliness of the compressed air supply used in chemical processing area?
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From Nitric Acid Dip Cleaning To Closed-Loop Solvent Cleaning
Superior Products in Ohio has reduced annual water consumption from two million gallons to zero, dropped daily cleaning labor from 15 hours to one per day, and has achieved better cleaning results.
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