Electroplating
New Surface Coating Evicts Biofilms For Good, Researchers Say
Team of Harvard scientists has developed a slick way to prevent the troublesome bacterial communities from ever forming on a surface.
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Gas And Oil Platers Are Striking Black Gold in Texas
Houston Plating & Coatings and CEO Bill Howard are reaping the boom in oil and gas industry by running at capacity in its Houston plant, expanding capacity at its Humble plant by 50 percent, and building a new, 80,000-sq-ft plant in Louisiana that will cost $9 million and employ 120 workers when completed later this year.
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SIFCO ASC Featured on FOX Business Network
“Manufacturing Marvels” segment on The Willis Report on FOX Business Network. The episode airs Friday, July 27 from 9:00-10:00pm EST.
Read MoreDrying Gold-Plated Parts
What is the optimum temperature for drying gold-plated parts? Is there a point where the temperature may become detrimental to the gold-plated surface?
Read MoreFinish Brightness
Finished lots of parts ostensibly with the same plated finish “look” very different each time they are received. Is there a more trustworthy process to determine the brightness of the finished part?
Read MoreBurnt Nickel
I am having a problem with burning on my nickel-plated parts. On some jobs, 75 to 85 percent of the parts come out with burnt areas. Do you have any suggestions as to what the cause of this might be?
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Roy Metal Finishing Invests $2.6M In New Building, Land in Piedmont, SC
Largest electroplating firm in the Southeast says it plans expansion; also purchases 10 acres for further expansion
Read MoreCircle-Prosco Plans New $4.3M Facility
Manufacturer of specialty chemicals for the metal finishing industry will expand its current operations into a new location in Bloomington, adding 11 new jobs by 2015.
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Q&A: Nickel Phosphorous Plating
Can you give me any information about nickel phosphorous electrolytic plating? Does it have the same set of properties as electroless nickel plating?
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