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Crown Group earns John Deere Supplier of the Year and Partner-level Supplier

Crown Group is a supplier of coating services to John Deere’s Tractor Cab and Assembly Operations in Waterloo, Iowa.

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Parts Cleaning

Steel Manufacturer Hannibal Ind. Opens Houston Plant, Powder Coat Facility

110,000-square-foot facility will house the company's new powder-coating production line, an environmental room and additional office space.

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Electrocoating

Painting a Boeing 737: See The Video

The cost is between $100,000 to $200,000 to prep and paint each plane, depending on which colors are chosen, and how many colors.

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Electrocoating

Axalta Celebrates 150 Years in Coatings

First products developed in Germany in 1866, and since has grown into one of the world’s leading manufacturers of liquid and powder coatings.

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Electroplating

Precision Coating Acquires Boyd Coatings Research

Precision Coating of Boston, MA, has acquired Boyd Coatings Research, a provider of coating application services based in Hudson, MA.

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Parts Cleaning

BASF Wins 2015 Nissan Award

BASF received the Nissan “Spirit of Monozukuri” award at the annual conference in Tennessee.

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Anodizing

Burton Metal Finishing Rebuilds After Fire

2013 fire took Burton almost two years to get things built back up.

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masking

Poly-Plating’s Nickel Plating Process Earns Accepted Status from FDA

Device Master Files (MAFS) available for those seeking a Premarket Application (PMA) or 510(k) approval for medical devices with the Food and Drug Administration.

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Electroplating

Min Zou, Mechanical Engineer and Coating Specialist, Named Arkansas Research Alliance Fellow

Zou holds the fellow for research on nanoscale surfaces like anti-reflective coatings for solar panels, friction-reducing coatings in electronics and coatings.

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Powder Coating

January's Go-To-Guy: Bill Lekki, Precious Plate

Bill Lekki, technical director of Precious Plate, began working for the company 35 years ago and is the Go-To-Guy. Also: Adrian “Sergio” Sanchez and Kally Powell from All-Color Powder Coating.

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