marketing

Breaking Up is Hard to Do

How to use the loss of a customer as a learning opportunity.

Read More
masking

Special Delivery

Finishing of large diesel engines benefits from paint system improvements

Read More
energy

Anodic or Cathodic E-Coat?

I recently heard about a company using an anodic E-coat on castings, and that it cures at a much lower temp. If the anodic E-coat takes less energy to cure, why isn’t it more widely used?

Read More

Extreme Cleaning

Military components pose unique cleaning, stripping challenges

Read More

Race to the Finish

Sur/Fin 2009 Hosts Timely, Relevant Content Designed to Keep the Finishing Industry on Track

Read More

E-coating Over Zinc-Plated Steel?

The print calls for the part to be zinc plated before application of a cathodic epoxy E-coating. The customer apparently feels that the zinc plating will provide an additional level of corrosion protection. However, we have sent requests for quote to three E-coaters and they have all elected to no-quote the project because of the zinc plating.

Read More

E-coat As A Primer For Powder

The spec called for electrocoat as a primer and a powder coating for the top coat. We have liquid and powder coating facilities in our plant, but we will have to send the parts to a contract coater for the E-coat process. Can you tell me why the E-coat process might be required instead of a liquid process?

Read More

A Conversation With ...Marek Urban

Professor of Polymer Science School of Polymers and High Performance Materials University of Southern Mississippi

Read More

The Primary E-coat Product Types

You mentioned an anodic acrylic E-coat. What other types of E-coat products are there and can you give me an idea about where they’re used?

Read More

The Double-Edged Sword

There are two sides to estate planning—how to make it and how to keep it.

Read More
find masking products online
Heatmax Heaters ad with immersion heaters
Filtration Systems
At-line and in-line instrumentation.
Mocap Masking Caps Plugs Tapes
Fischer Technology, Inc.
The Finishing Industry’s Education and Networking Resource
FABTECH 2024
cfs masking