Electroplating

Electroplating

Hardwood Line Changes Paradigm for Plating Small Parts

Its prototype is a lithium ion battery-powered barrel with special gearing.

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Electroplating

Changes Bring Out the Best for Plating Shop

Arizona’s CRC Surface Technologies Improves Performance, Profits with Management Changes

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A Conversation With ... Frank Altmayer, AESF Technical Education Director

Altmayer is a Master Surface Finisher, an AESF Fellow and technical education director of the AESF Foundation and NASF.

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Anodizing

Impact of Intermetallic Species on Cast Aluminum Alloys for Anodizing Applications

Alloys with higher silicon concentrations can inhibit the growth of anodic oxide films under galvanostatic and potentiostatic conditions.

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Anodizing

How to Select the Right Heater for Your System

When selecting equipment to operate a process lines, Edward Dulzer from Process Technology says there is a wide variety of products to choose from.

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Anodizing

How to Ensure Topcoat or Sealer Maintains Corrosion Resistance

Adam Blakeley with MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions says there are six crucial parameters for proper application of sealers.

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Electroplating

Dynamix Adds Stewart to Sales Team

The company, based in Markham, Ontario, Canada, designs and manufactures specialty chemicals for the metal plating and general metal finishing industries.

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Loan Helps Carolina Metal Finishing Create Jobs in South Carolina

Facility supplies contract services for metal parts cleaning, assembly, industrial painting and powder coating.

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The Relationship Between Vickers Hardness and Universal Hardness

The Vickers indenter hardness test, based on indenter displacement under test load (universal hardness), is being used for an increasing number of applications.  The new method is also subject to much discussion among the experts.  An important question is the relationship or the degree of correlation between the new universal hardness test and the classic Vickers hardness test.

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Electroplating

Evaluation of a Simple Thin-Film Ductility Tester and Review of the Ductility of Nickel Sulfamate Deposits

Originally published in 1992, this paper addressed a critical issue in the science of electroforming, that of the measurement and control of deposit ductility.

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