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Rebuilding the KEI Plating Giant

Oscar Kuntz’s grandsons have turned around the automotive plating firm from the brink to success again.

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Columbia Chemical Receives Employee-Ownership Award

The company began employee stock ownership in 2005 and has been 100 percent employee-owned since 2012.

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Electroplating

George Koch Sons Acquires Walgren Company

Walgren will become part of George Koch Sons and will continue to serve its growing customer base from Grand Rapids, MI, and China.

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surfin

Electrodeposition of Ni-Fe-Mo-W Alloys - Part 9

Ninth Quarterly Report - AESF Research Project #R-117. This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the ninth quarter of project work (January-March 2015). In this period, Graduate student Avinash Kola has continued work on the influence of deposition conditions on the properties of the Ni-W alloys.

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basics

Mechanism of the Plating Process - The 8th William Blum Lecture

This paper is a re-publication of the 8th William Blum Lecture, presented at the 54th AES Annual Convention in Dallas, Texas, on June 19, 1967. Dr. Henry B. Linford discussed the transition of electroplating from an art to a science as the mechanism of the plating process became better understood.

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Electroplating

Vertical Acid Copper Plating for PCB Manufacturing

Developments expand in the world of printed circuit boards.

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Electroplating

Blisters

How do we prevent blistering of nickel plated copper parts?

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Electroplating

Star Dusting

How to get rid of star dusting

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Electroplating

Nickel Silver

What is nickel silver?

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Anodizing

120 Years of the “Wolkerstorfer Way”

Minnesota finisher still growing after more than a century. Watch the VIDEO of the company.

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