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Powder Coating

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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Liquid Coating

Sames Kremlin Announces Entry-level Airspray Gun

Sames Kremlin has added the FSTART, a new high-quality entry-level Airspray gun, to its range of Airspray manual spray guns

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management

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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Powder Coating

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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Electroplating

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.

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Anodizing

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.

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Parts Cleaning

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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Parts Cleaning

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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Powder Coating

The Color Wheel Keeps Turning

A peek inside PPG’s Color Design Studio.

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nasf

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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