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aerospace

PPG Aerospace Coatings Add Character To Cathay Pacific Special Livery

“The Spirit of Hong Kong” livery on Cathay Pacific Airways’ Boeing 777-300ER airplane painted to support the “Hong Kong: Our Home” campaign.

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What’s Next for the Aerospace NESHAP?

Will it be business as usual or are major changes in store for the aerospace industry as feds look at 40 CFR Part 63 Subpart GG, commonly referred to as the Aerospace National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants, or NESHAP.

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Powder Coating

Trojan Powder Coating Paints Modern Valentine for New York City

Match-Maker, a unique installation designed to connect perfect strangers, was selected by the Times Square Alliance and the Van Alen Institute as the featured design for this year’s Valentine’s Day heart.

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Electrocoating

EXEL North America named Sherwin-Williams Vendor of the Year

EXEL North America is an expert in finishing and dispensing solutions and introduced the patented Airmix technology in 2013, resulting in a winning program for both Sherwin-Williams and its customers.

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Self-Cleaning Solar Panel Coating Optimizes Energy Collection, Reduces Costs

The accumulation of dust and sand on solar power reflectors and photovoltaic cells – also known as soiling ‑ is one of the main efficiency drags for solar power facilities, often reducing reflectivity up to 50 percent in 14 days.

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Electrocoating

Axalta Coating Systems Participates in Michigan Values Veterans Workforce Program

Mount Clemens, MI facility presented with MV2 certification at Michigan Values Veterans conference for Axalta’s pledge to hire and retain U.S. veterans.

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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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Powder Coating

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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Powder Coating

Infrared Curing: Evaluating the characteristics of IR energy

Infrared (IR) energy can be used as a source of heat to cure a variety of industrial coatings. Such infrared curing applies energy to the coated part surface by direct transmission from an IR emitter, which can provide source temperatures of anywhere from 500 to 4,200°F

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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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