Parts Cleaning
8 Things You Need to Know About Paint Booth Lighting
Global Finishing Solutions has come up with some helpful insights on lighting for paints booths which plays a crucial role in achieving a quality paint job.
WatchPassivation Concentration
I am reviewing my passivation process with nitric acid per ASTM 967 using nitric 2 (6.1.1.2), and am not sure how to mix or check the solution. I also want to be sure I am neutralizing correctly.
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MAXimizing Coating Opportunities
Chuck Gault had no plans to expand his Birmingham, Ala., company, Max Coating, to a second location more than 140 miles away in the heart of Atlanta until his employees stepped up and urged him to make the expansion a reality.
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VDA 19 and its Impact on European Manufacturing and Cleaning
The German Association of the Automotive Industry’s VDA Volume 19 is the first comprehensive standardization document for characterizing the cleanliness of products within the automotive industry’s quality chain.
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Wheels of Fortune For a Florida Coater
Once a supplier to international companies, a Florida manufacturer now makes and coats its own aftermarket wheels after it discovered that 80 percent of the aftermarket wheel manufacturing business that used to be done in the U.S. is done overseas, and often not very well.
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Air Force Enlists New Plating Shop for Duty
The new Advanced Metal Finishing facility—$67 million of plating technology and safety —was unveiled with a ceremony and public tours, but it won’t be fully operation until the end of this year when work transfers slowly from the older, adjoining AMF building.
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Have a Blast Cleaning Parts
The concept of the wet blasting process in parts cleaning and surface finishing is straightforward enough: combine abrasive media with water to form a special slurry, then add regulated compressed air to control the pressure as it is discharged over a surface.
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Finishing Brands Hosts Three-Day Symposium in Toledo
Topics included automotive, industrial and medical coatings from industry experts and from DeVilbiss, Ransburg, BGK and Binks company executives.
WatchMechanical Cleaning Effectiveness
We are coating nuts and fasteners with nickel alloys for corrosion resistance. We currently do mechanical cleaning before electrochemical cleaning but would like to eliminate this mechanical cleaning, as the system is not efficient. Could you give us information on a new process?
Read MoreRust Prevention
Is our process for pretreatment and powder coating of outdoor enclosures good enough to prevent rust from appearing, and, if so, how long would it last?
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