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Liquid Coating

Low-VOC Paints

We are presently using an air-drying enamel applied over iron-phosphated, cold-rolled steel. Because of increasing energy costs, we are looking at ways to reduce its usage.

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Liquid Coating

World Trade Center I-Beam Preservation

I have been asked to make an honorable artistic memorial for exhibition on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. For the memorial, a section of the I-beam will be publicly displayed inside an airport, and it may be an open display able to be touched by the public.

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Powder Coating

It's "Time" for Carefree AZ Sundial to get Powder Coated

Renovation will update anodized copper sculpture

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Electroplating

From Metal Finishing to the NFL?

Former Cleveland Black Oxide employee in St. Louis camp

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Electrodeposition of Zinc Films from Environmentally-Friendly Gluconate Salt Solutions

The electrodeposition of zinc onto steel has been widely adopted in industry due to high corrosion resistance of the coating system.

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A Quantitative Test for Determining the Bond Strength Between an Electroplated Coating and the Basis Metal

One of the parameters describing the appropriate quality of electroplating is the bond strength between the plating and the basis metal. All other things being equal, corrosion protection of the basis metal is important, but the bond strength between the plated coating and the basis metal is absolutely critical.

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Investigation of Tin Whisker Formation

Immersion tin and lead-free hot air solder leveling (HASL) coatings based on SnCu or SnAgCu alloys are widely used as surface finish materials for printed circuit boards (PCB). These coatings prevent the underlying copper from corrosion and preserve its solderability during lead-free assembly processes and for a long storage life of PCBs.

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Electroplating

$215,000 Research Grant For Eliminating Chromate Conversion Waste

Fort Collins, CO, company Ionedge Corp. gets EPA grant to study waste elimination in the metal finishing process.

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basics

Nitric Acid Passivation and EH&S Impact

I am looking for safety/environmental requirements to set up a nitric acid cleaning and passivation system.

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Electroplating

Two Massachusetts Platers Merge

Standard Plating joins with Independent Plating

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