Electroplating
Acquisitions Spur Lincoln Industries' Continued Growth
The acquisitions of Southwest Metal Finishing/Inventix Mfg. and SourceOne propels finishing giant.
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Dynapower's Multiunit Rectifier Controller Consolidates Power Controls
Unit can control between one and 10 rectifiers from a single, user-friendly touchscreen that can be centrally located in any facility.
Read MoreMinding Your Own Business
The Products Finishing Top Shops Executive Summit in October 2020 will give you that opportunity.
Read MoreFixing Salt Spray Failures After Passivating, Baking
This is a common challenge faced by many acid zinc platers who Mark Adams from Columbia Chemical says perform hydrogen embrittlement relief on acid zinc plated fasteners.
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Index Experiences Accelerating Contraction
September Finishing Index is 46.4, posting a third month of contracting activity.
Read MoreInternships: Not Just for Coffee Makers and Photocopiers
Organizations that don’t offer internships are missing a huge opportunity to improve.
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Frontier Group Launches New Chemical Processing Line
Arizona-based provider of aerospace metal finishing services reopened its Phoenix chemical processing facilities after $1.5 million complete transformation.
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Technic Low-Acid Tin Concentrate Reduces Costs
Techni NF Tin 400 LA Concentrate is a low, free-acid tin methanesulfonate solution for inert anode plating bath applications.
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Laser-Induced Selective Deposition on Metal Using Electroless Gold
Originally published as H.R. Khan, M.U. Kittel and Ch. J. Raub, Plating and Surface Finishing, 75 (8), 58-64 (1988), this paper was awarded the 1989 AESF Gold Medal. The idea was to see if shining a laser on the substrate during electroless gold plating had any significant effect. The results are presented here.
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Electrocodeposition of MCrAlY Coatings for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications - 7th Quarterly Research Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the seventh quarter of project work (July-September 2019) on the AESF Foundation Research project at the Tennessee Technological University. The objective of the work is to study and optimize the MCrAlY electro-codeposition process to improve the coating oxidation/corrosion performance. In this quarter, the effect of the particle size of gas-atomized CrAlY powders on electro-codeposited Ni-CrAlY composite coatings was studied.
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