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Electroplating

40 Under 40: Apple's Sean Novak Leads New Generation of Finishing Leaders

Novak has reached the apex of his career (so far) as manager of the surface finishing team at Apple Inc., a Cupertino, California-based conglomerate that designs, develops and sells consumer electronics, software and online services.

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Powder Coating

Racking Up Profits in Coating Operations

Racking is often the first process when parts arrive at a finishing shop, but it’s the last process anyone thinks about when it comes to improving efficiencies and reducing costs.

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curing

Powder Clinic: Outdoor Durable Powder

Q. We have a large job that requires protection from sunlight. What kind of powder we should use?

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Polishing Demands Lead to Innovative Solution

In the world that is Kinninger Production Welding in New Bremen, Ohio, polishing is not the biggest operation that owner Kevin Thobe’s team has to contend with—but it had certainly become one of the most demanding.

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Electroplating

Plating Clinic: Cleaner Bath Life

Q. My cleaners are not lasting nearly as long as they should. What can I do to lengthen the life of my cleaner bath?

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masking

July Go-To-Guy: Eduardo Leonides, Industrial Polishing Services

Leonides started working at IPS in the late 1990s as an engineering assistant, and has since also worked as junior engineer, materials and planning supervisor and an account executive.

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Anodizing

SRG Global Moving to World Headquarters in Troy

The new facility has more than 51,000-square-feet and will house the company’s support staff; it will be home to more than 250 employees.

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Parts Cleaning

Astro Pak Acquires Chemko Technical Services

The newly acquired AS9100 Certified Class 10,000 square foot cleanroom facility in Florida equips the company to better serve the precision cleaning, testing and passivation requirements.

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Liquid Coating

K Alpha Acquires Bowman Analytics

Company acquires their long-time partner for x-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrumentation for coating thickness measurement, elemental analysis and solution analysis.

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curing

Products Finishing's Steve Kline Jr. Delivers CCAI PCI Economic Talk

Director of Market Intelligence for parent company Gardner Business Media, spoke at the CCAI PCI annual meeting on the topic "2016 Economic Trends in Finishing."

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