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Winona Powder Coating Receives AAMA 2604 Certification
Winona Powder Coating has achieved AAMA 2604 Certification, becoming a certified applicator of AkzoNobel for Architectural Powder Coatings Technologies.
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Aquatics Informatics Acquires Sedaru
Aquatics Informatics will acquire Sedaru, a provider of water utility management software, and add Sedaru to Danaher’s Water Quality platform.
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X-Rite and Pantone's Pantora Makes Digital Material Samples
X-Rite Inc. and Pantone LLC have updated their Pantora application to connect with X-Rite spectrophotometers, enabling brands to convert physical materials into digital samples.
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Avoiding Tank Failure
Gary Kriesch leads the business unit at Tri-Mer Corp. that specializes in turnkey anodizing, electrocoating and other metal finishing systems. In this helpful article, he offers insights into the design, selection and maintenance of tanks that are the heart of those systems.
Read MoreAvoiding Tank Failure
Gary Kriesch leads the business unit at Tri-Mer Corp. that specializes in turnkey anodizing, electrocoating and other metal finishing systems. In this helpful article, he offers insights into the design, selection and maintenance of tanks that are the heart of those systems.
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Non-reactive Cleaning for Powder Coating
Northeastern Ohio industrial hinge manufacturer Midlake Products & Mfg. Co. recently added a powder coating line to its operation after years of contemplation. One deciding factor was a phosphate-free, non-reactive cleaning process.
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Safechem Dualene 1601 S Marks First Pure Modified Alcohol
Safechem is launching its Dualene 1601 S, a pre-stabilized modified alcohol designed to enhance process stability in high-precision metal cleaning.
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Electro-codeposition of MCrAlY Coatings for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications - 12th Quarterly Research Report
The aim of this research is to seek a sulfur-free plating solution for electro-codeposition of (Ni,Co)-CrAlY composite coatings. In this quarter, the coating plated in the sulfur-free, all-chloride plating solution with sodium lauryl sulfate wetting agent showed the best oxidation performance. This coating also demonstrated much better oxidation resistance that the bare CMSX-4 alloy.
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Searching for Gold
Over many years, well-regarded AESF/NASF contributor Jack Dini contributed a series of fascinating columns to Plating & Surface Finishing, under the title Fact or Fiction?. The year 2020 saw a return of Jack’s writings from time to time, and here, he offers more material for 2021.
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