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The Profit Hunt: Finding the Hidden Cost of Electrocoat
Determining real costs means competing in deflationary times.
Read MoreU.S. EPA Tightens Chromium Air Standards for Coatings
NASF Highlights Weak Rationale to White House
Read MoreThe Coatings Rework Nightmare
How company mindset in a quandary can make or break a finishing operation.
Read MoreWeld Drag Marks
Regarding the question by B.F. (January 2011) concerning spot weld drag marks: While your answer was certainly correct, the question may still not be completely answered.
Read MorePinholes in Powder Finish
We apply powder coating on aluminum panels, and are facing a problem with pinholes. Our pretreatment is acid etching and chrome-free coating. Please give me a solution for the pinhole problem.
Read MorePainting Fishing Lures
What are the best undercoat and finish coat to use on stainless steel fishing lures?
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PPG Opens Color Matching Laboratory
Addresses growing number of domestic and import OEM color offerings and variations, and the need to match those colors
Read MoreThermal Oxidizer
Our client has an RTO on its aluminum window frame painting line, and we supplied a total hydrocarbon analyzer to meet compliance. We get a huge spike in the readings when the RTO chambers cycle every four minutes. We can go from 3 to 6 ppm for four min, then spike to 400 to 1,000 ppm for a few seconds. I don’t believe RTOs should work that way and that switching should have little or no effect on efficiency. I think the client’s unburned paint is contaminating our gas analyzer.
Read MoreCitric Acid Passivation
I would like to set up a citric acid passivation line as follows: heated citric, drag-out tank, three cascading unheated rinse tanks and possibly a heated rinse to help in drying. Am I missing any tanks and or accessories that you would recommend?
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