Electroplating
Is it Time to Revisit your Plastic Metallization Process?
The plating on plastics (POP) market has evolved to include an ever-broader range of substrates, huge increases in selective plating demand, using tools such as two-shot molding and laser ablation.
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Removing Heavy Metals from Wastewater
The removal of soluble heavy metal ions from wastewater is a common industrial treatment requirement in modern manufacturing.
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Silver Anti-Tarnish Processes Prevent Yellowing Under Harsh Conditions
Technic offers Techniseal and Tarniban KS II silver anti-tarnish processes designed to prevent yellow discoloration under harsh conditions. Both can be used in barrel, rack and high-speed reel-to-reel applications.
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Crack Formation during Electrodeposition and Post-deposition Aging of Thin Film Coatings - 9th & 10th Quarterly Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the ninth and tenth quarters of project work (January-June 2018) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the University of Houston. The work continued towards identifying the effective pulse deposition approach to control and mitigate the stress state of chromium thin films and also involved a comprehensive study of palladium stress evolution during electrodeposition and strategies to mitigate its magnitude.
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Advances in Decorative PVD Chromium Coatings for Polymer Substrates
This article reviews a two-layer, selective coating process which incorporates a specially developed UV-cured paint base coating with a sub-micron thick PVD chromium top coating. It illustrates the coating’s testing protocols of automotive manufacturers and the necessities of controlling the stresses within the coating matrix.
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Medical Industry Shows Signs of Strength
Gardner Intelligence’s chief economist, Michael Guckes, says company earnings and economic data both indicate short- and long-term growth for manufacturers in the medical industry.
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Webinar Discusses Switch from Hexavalent to Trivalent
Columbia Chemical and Products Finishing will host a free webinar on October 18 that will address regulations, process differences, conversion details, cost factors and benefits.
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Do I Have a Finishing Story for You
Non-disclosure agreements keep many ingenious projects under wrap, but a Brooklyn plating shop has a heck of a tale to tell about a huge job it pulled off.
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A Conversation with Cheryl Clark, NASF Director of Events
The National Association for Surface Finishing’s Sur/Fin conference saw record crowds this past June, and much of the credit goes to the person the NASF has to put on the event, Cheryl Clark.
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Hixson Metal Finishing Battles its Way to No. 1
The California shop’s road to success began two decades ago with new leadership and commitment to refocus.
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