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Fluorinated Surfactants Is Top Issue at NASF Washington Forum

NASF Executive Vice President Christian Richter says fluorinated surfactants is emerging as the most critical issue for the surface finishing industry.

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Gema Promotes Phil Flasher to Engineering Manager

Flasher is responsible for managing the project engineering team, supervising systems and retrofit engineering, and directing the customer application lab.

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automotive

Acid Copper Technologies for Plating on Plastics

Automotive OEM performance requirements continue to increase which presents increased challenges to the supply chain to provide acceptable parts.  This presentation will introduce a new system of acid copper technologies that have been designed to increase performance, widen the process operating window, reduce rejects and ultimately increase production capacity.

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Electroplating

How to Read Your Top Shops Customized Benchmarking Report

Video from Michael Guckes from Gardner Intelligence explains how to read and understand your Products Finishing Top Shops Benchmarking custom reports you received if you took part in the recent survey.

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automotive

Transition from a Simple Auxiliary Anode to a Fully-developed Conforming Anode System for Plating

This paper demonstrates that the use of an elaborate CAE designed conforming anode system enables plating complex exterior automotive part designs within specification.  It will be shown that the increased fixed and variable production costs that are unavoidable when operating an elaborate conforming anode system can be partially earned back by a reduction in metal consumption, and by an increased capacity due to shorter plating times.

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Weiler Promotes New Sales VP for U.S., Canada

Jason Conner will be responsible for overseeing all sales activities in the U.S. and Canada, including independent distribution, national accounts, field sales and manufacturers’ rep groups.

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MacDermid Enthone Appoints New Lead in Americas

Richard Lynch will serve as vice president of the Americas for MacDermid Enthone Industrial Solutions (MEIS), a division of MacDermid Performance Solutions.

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Asterion Appoints Technical Sales Representative for Southeast

Paul Frank will serve Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida.

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energy

New Thermal Coatings for Spacecraft, Satellites Use Metamaterials

Metamaterial optical solar reflectors (meta-OSRs) are the first surface coatings on the outside of a spacecraft, designed to effectively radiate infrared heat away from it while reflecting most of the optical solar spectrum.

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GFS Promotes Steve Love to Manager of Parts and Filters Sales

Global Finishing Solutions (GFS) has promoted Steve Love to manager of its parts and filters sales department.

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