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Better Burning

Regenerative thermal oxidizers (RTOs) are effective pollution control devices widely used to destroy up to 99.9% of VOCs in paint shop process air streams by burning at temperatures to 1,500°F.Heating air to those kinds of temperatures requires a lot of energy, so RTO suppliers are constantly developing new ways to make their RTO units more energy-efficient.

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Citric Passivation

Citric acid solutions produce no hazardous fumes

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Creating Wealth Through Life Insurance

The Internal Revenue Code is generous to life insurance.

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Better Brains, Better Business

Back in the day, the role of a manager in any business was simply to assure that things got done efficiently, and it didn't matter a whole lot how this was accomplished.Modern managers, however, are expected to be more facilitative than controlling and directive, and in that capacity, they may take on a variety of roles as advisor, role model, friend, and, when necessary, counselor.

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Excessive Metal Content in Bath

The chemistry manufacturer did a “metals analysis” of our bath and reported iron content at 1,420 mg/L. Is there any other way of removing the iron other than dumping the bath and making up a new one?

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Blisters in E-Coat Over Zinc-Plated Steel

Some of our components are zinc-plated by outside suppliers. The challenge we have is that sometimes we E-coat the zinc plated parts fine, and other times they blister. Why?

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Parts Draining During E-coat

At the end of the process, when the body gets out of the E-coat bath, sometimes incomplete draining of the body can occur and this can produce problems during the baking phase. Could you tell me more about the nature of these problems? Do some special methods exist to avoid bad draining problems?

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Looking for Information About Electrocoating

Question: I'm writing to you from Italy.

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Heat-treated Parts and E-coat

Heat treated parts paint a little differently than plain steel parts, so I will try to explain the differences.

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Painting Fire Apparatus

The finish on a "fire engine" has to have parade quality and tractor durability. Pierce Manufacturing has new facilities that produce finishes exceeding fire-department expectations while meeting production needs of the next decade...

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