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Powder Coating

Hentzen Coatings Awards Newest Approved Applicator, PTF Industrial Coatings

After line audit and physical testing to the AAMA 2605 specification, PTF Industrial Coatings in Hialeah, Florida, awarded Approved Applicator status.

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Liquid Coating

BASF Opens New Automotive Center in Houston

Center includes the latest in virtual and in-person training facilities, spray booths and market-leading application equipment.

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L.A. Law

Criminal action against California platers shows the heat is on.

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Electrocoating

Electrocoating Q&A: Orange Peel Effects on Steel Parts

We are experiencing intermittent orange peel effects on steel parts that are zinc plated before phosphate and black epoxy ecoat paint.

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Electrocoating

Electrocoating Q&A: Film Thickness Options

What type of epoxy ecoat do most automotive companies use for their steel parts?

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Liquid Coating

Measure soluble salts on surfaces significantly faster with the new Elcometer 130 SSP Soluble Salt Profiler

Portable, hand-held gauge which accurately and reliably measures 4 Bresle equivalent readings in less than three minutes

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Parts Cleaning

BASF Presents Winner of 2016 Fight Club of Automotive Design

Omar Gonzalez won the 2016 Middlecott Sketchbattle Experiment, Detroit’s first-ever “Fight Club of Design."

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curing

Akzo Nobel to buy BASF coatings

The transaction would include technologies, patents and trademarks, as well as securing supply to customers worldwide.

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Parts Cleaning

Crown Group earns John Deere Supplier of the Year and Partner-level Supplier

Crown Group is a supplier of coating services to John Deere’s Tractor Cab and Assembly Operations in Waterloo, Iowa.

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Powder Coating

February’s Go-To Guy: Jose Lopez, Elite Finishing

Know a guy or gal in the industry who should be recognized? Email Jess Larkin at jlarkin@pfonline.com.

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