Electrocoating

Powder Coating

Five Market and Industry Trends in Surface Finishing 2012

Consider market and industry trends, and modify strategy to take advantage of them

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Parts Cleaning

Are Ionic Liquids Right for Your Parts Cleaning Job?

Ionic liquids have also been considered for parts cleaning applications because of their negligible vapor pressure, high thermal and electrochemical stability, and low melting points of less than 100°C.

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Electrocoating

Solving Wide-Body E-Coat Immersion Problems

Altec Industries in Burnsville, N.C., a manufacturer of heavy truck bodies and related equipment, added e-coat to its finishing operation and—through the proper design and execution of an electrocoat/liquid spray topcoat paint system —addressed issues of e-coating large truck bodies.

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basics

Meeting the Critical Cleaning Challenge

Today’s parts cleaning industry faces numerous challenges that can make the selection of an effective critical cleaning system difficult

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Electrocoating

General Motors Names BASF As 2011 Supplier Of The Year

BASF receives honor for the eighth time in 10 years

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Parts Cleaning

Parts2clean 2012 Will Be Oct 23-25 in Stuttgart

10th Leading International Trade Fair for Industrial Parts and Surface Cleaning

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Electrocoating

Measuring E-Coat Cure

What are the different ways to measure electrocoat cure? We use solvent rubs but, depending on the solvent, we obtain better or worse results of cure. How do we interpret this and what other tests can we do?

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Electrocoating

Coating Copper and Magnesium

Can electrocoat be used to coat copper and magnesium substrates? Do you know of any commercial applications using those metals?

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A Conversation With ... John Martin, PPG

PPG’s John Martin isn’t the father of electrocoating, but he did win the award named for the man who is credited with coming up with the idea. Martin won the George E.F. Brewer award from the Electrocoating Association in 2008 for his lifetime of innovations, and this year he heads the trade group as its president.

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Bernard Downey, Coating Pioneer, Passes Away at 88

Founder and president of B.L. Downey Co., a 325,000sf2 facility that specialized in e-coat and powder coating.

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