Electroplating
Clean Wastewater Attacking Zinc Plate
We use ion exchange treatment for wastewater from our nickel, hexavalent chrome and zinc plating rinses. What kind of characterization should we do to identify the pollutants that are affecting our products, and what steps are needed to reuse this water?
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NASF's AESF Foundation Awards Scholarship
Sudarshan Narayanan is currently focusing on transparent conductors for optoelectronic applications and is expecting to complete his doctorate in 2013
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A Look at Early Advertising in the Surface Finishing Industry
This article contains a collection of the advertisements published in the July, 1930 issue of Metal Cleaning and Finishing. They capture an instant in time, when the surface finishing industry was quite different from what we find today.
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Development of Life Prediction Models for High Strength Steel in a Hydrogen Emitting Environment
Solvent substitution for maintenance and overhaul operations of military systems has been a primary environmental concern for many years. Cadmium replacement in these systems has been targeted for decades. Both of these areas have a common obstacle for implementation of any potential alternate. Hydrogen embrittlement of high strength steel is the most predominant unforeseen hurdle since high strength materials show sensitivity to the phenomena and the source of the hydrogen can be anything within the fabrication process, maintenance practice or the natural corrosion cycle. Standardized testing on this issue has traditionally stemmed from the aerospace industry where it is a principal focus.
Read MoreDissolving Titanium Anode Baskets
Has anyone experienced titanium anode baskets dissolving in a nickel sulfamate plating bath with a pH of 2.5 and no current flowing?
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Haviland Announces 100% Employee Ownership
Prior to this sale, Haviland Enterprises was owned 54 percent by the Haviland family and 46 percent by Haviland employees.
Read MoreHull Cell Testing
Can you give me information about the use of the Hull cells and interpretation Hull cell panels?
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Nickel Saved is Nickel Earned
Those in the plating industry are continually working on the development of a process to recover valuable nickel from spent electroless nickel solutions. Now there is a two-stage method to do just that.
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A Conversation with … LaVaughn Daniel
When she’s not racing motorcycles or perilously climbing the sides of steep mountains for fun and excitement, LaVaughn Daniels is the environmental and safety manager for Danco Metal Surfacing in Arcadia, Calif., as well as president of the Metal Finishing Association of Southern California (MFASC).
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