Electrocoating

Electrocoating

E-Coating Stainless Steel

It is possible to electrocoat stainless steel parts with good quality and performance?

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Electrocoating

DeFelsko Launches Cloud-Based Thickness Gages and Inspection Instruments

New wireless features enable users to synchronize readings with its cloud-based website, download updates with the latest features and functionality, and wirelessly communicate any wireless-connected device.

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Anodizing

Caterpillar Is Back on the Coatings Prowl

Caterpillar has been developing and applying advanced wear coatings to extend the service life and performance of its machine components, whether new or remanufactured, for decades. Now Caterpillar’s advanced wear coatings are available to others through Cat Remanufacturing, including turnkey coating and finishing.

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Electroplating

Acquisitions Abound in the Finishing Industry

End-markets are growing, raw material costs are declining, and more than the usual number of mergers and acquisitions took place, possibly signaling a resurgence of the U.S. coating industry. The Carlyle Group won a bidding war to take over DuPont Performance Coatings; Innotek Powder Coatings was purchased by Protech/Oxyplast; United Capital Funding Corp. purchased Architectural Finish Systems; and Pioneer Metal Finishing of Green Bay, Wis., bought Superior Metal Finishing of Portland, Ore., to go along with plants in Wisconsin, Oregon, Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina and Indiana.

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Electrocoating

Steamed Over Heating Costs? Try Gas For Your Finishing Shop

The cost of natural gas in the U.S. is at record lows—about where the rates were in the mid-1970s—causing many in the plating industry who need to heat tanks to search for alternative avenues to curtail their rising energy costs.

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Liquid Coating

The Call of Heavy Duty Coatings

PPG renews its commitment to heavy-duty equipment coatings with Caterpillar as it is selected the company’s industrial coatings business as the sole heavy-duty equipment coatings supplier for a new motor grader assembly plant in North Little Rock, Ark.

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curing

PPG Aerospace Special-Effect Coatings Bring Virgin Atlantic Airways’ Livery To Life

Proprietary PPG pigment gives highly-reflective, vibrant color to airline’s vision

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The Profit Hunt: Finding the Hidden Cost of Electrocoat

Determining real costs means competing in deflationary times.

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Electrocoating

Becoming “Socially Accepted” in the Finishing World

Products Finishing’s new LinkedIn plating group provides insight from the “Top Shops.”

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A Conversation With ... Sam Woehler, George Koch Sons and CCAI President

Sam Woehler was recently named president of the Chemical Coaters Association International, which is getting ready to host the Finishing Pavilion at Fabtech, Nov. 12–14 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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