marketing
Air Make-Up Units Customizable to Volumes of 120,000 cfm
Col-Met Engineered Finishing Solutions’ CT air make-up (AMU) products are available in as many as 10 orientations, as well as with programmable logic controllers and automatic balancing as a standard configuration.
Read More
Pneumatic Die Grinder Provides High-Efficiency Surface Finishing
The Norton Pneumatic Die Grinder from Norton | Saint-Gobain Abrasives features a free speed of 25,000 rpm, designed for quick deburring, light to medium surface cleaning and finishing.
Read More
Venturi Scrubbers Available in Integrated Packages
Bionomic Industries’ Series 7000/8000 venturi scrubbers are available in fully integrated pre-engineered packages, complete with recirculation pumps, piping networks, instrumentation and automated controls.
Read More
Fluids Provide Corrosion Protection in Metalworking Applications
Chemetall’s Tech Cool 35058 metalworking fluid is designed for applications that require a superior micro-finish on ferrous alloys, low- and high-carbon steels, titanium, molybdenum, and tough alloys. Tech Cool 35037 is a general-purpose fluid developed for applications on aluminum and copper alloys.
Read More
Ultrasonic Agitation Cleaner Removes Supports from 3D-Printed Parts
Omegasonics’ 815BTX dual-tank benchtop ultrasonic cleaning machine eliminates the need to have two separate cleaning machines to remove supports that require chemicals vs. those that do not.
Read More
In-House PVD Coating System Saves Time, Costs
VaporTech’s VT-3000i coating system is designed to deposit materials using physical vapor deposition (PVD) or plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PE-CVD), as well as coat temperature-sensitive substrates using low-temperature arc vapor deposition technology (LTAVD).
Read More
Therma-Tron-X Purchases Wisconsin Furnace Maker
TTX officials say they will add high-temperature furnaces to their product offerings and carry on the HTF brand.
Read More
FANUC America to Expand HQ with New Michigan Facility
The $51 million expansion, expected to create 100 jobs, received a $1 million Michigan Business Development Program performance-based grant. It is scheduled to open in Fall 2019.
Read More
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.
Read More
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.
Read More
