Parts Cleaning
CCAI Adds On-Line Educational Videos on CCAI TV
This new feature is available to everyone free until December 1 on the CCAI website. The educational presentations are designed to provide information and understanding on a variety of finishing technologies.
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Powder Coater Is Fencing Out The Competition
With the help of Reliant Finishing Systems, a Texas fabricator uses U.S.-built powder coating equipment to compete against foreign imports.
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Coater is Getting Healthy in California’s Central Valley
Advanced Industrial Coatings specializes in medical and food service finishes. The company’s 50,000-sq-ft plant contains a conveyorized powder coating line capable of handling massive amounts of coatings, and an environmental and climate-controlled area for scientific applications.
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Take the Paint Efficiency Audit
Achieve cost savings through more efficient finishing operations. As finishing operations look to stay competitive in an increasingly global economy, it’s no surprise that efficiency has become a popular topic.
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Cash To Head Axalta Industrial Coatings; PPG Appoints Braun as VP Industrial Coatings
Cash joins Axalta Coating Systems from AkzoNobel Coatings; Braun has been appointed vice president of PPG's industrial coatings, Americas, effective immediately, replacing Richard Zoulek, who has left the company.
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Axalta Expands Coatings Technology Center
Company says New Pilot Reactor Will Accelerate New Product Development
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BASF Reveals Automotive Color Forecast
Movement towards more color shades than in previous years as BASF staff shows off the 65 new colors they are presenting to automakers and designers around the world.
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Hentzen Gets Approval Of CARC Powder Topcoat
MIL-PRF-32348 Type III approval comes after independently multi-year product development project.
Read MorePassivation Tanks
We have provided a passivation system constructed of 304 SS to a customer. They are passivating to Method 1, Type 2 of AMS 2700. The dichromate portion of the liquor appears to be darkening the process tank’s wetted surfaces only, as a non-dichromate liquor does not alter the tank’s surfaces. Are we damaging the tank? Will the tank wear out prematurely? Will it adversely affect the passivation of the customer’s parts?
Read MoreSolvent Reclamation
We just installed a used RSP-100 to recycle solvent in our pressroom and now are getting an alarm boilover.
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