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Top Shops

Eliminating No-Value-Added Services Adds Value for Customers

Answering questions about how to best meet customer needs led this Products Finishing Top Shop to stop using trucks to provide value-added services and instead, start offering in-house solutions.

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Powder Coating

Powder Coating Aluminium Adhesion Failure

PF columnist Rodger Talbert offers advice for mitigating adhesion failure of powder coating on aluminum parts.

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Ask The Expert

Reducing VOCs

Coating materials (paint and solvent) are one of the most significant sources of VOC generation. John Owed of Carlisle Fluid Technologies offers advice for reducing VOC consumption.

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Electroplating

Bales Metal Surface Solutions Installs New Nickel Plating Lines

The installation has doubled the finishing supplier’s nickel line capacity.

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Powder Coating

Product Finishing’s 2024 Top Shops Benchmarking Survey Deadline Approaches

Taking this year’s Products Finishing’s annual Top Shops Benchmarking Survey? Respondents are urged to complete the survey by April 30, 2024 in order to be considered as a qualifying top shop.

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management

Altana Announces New Leadership

Prof. Dr. Frank Richter named new chairman of Altana’s supervisory board.

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Vacuum Vapor

Vacuum Degreaser Cleans Up a Messy Situation

By replacing its immersion parts washer with a vacuum degreasing system, this machine shop is much more efficient, saving the company money, man hours and the health of the operators.

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In Memory of Ron Saas

The finishing industry celebrates the life of Ron Saas, founder of All-Star Chemical.

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New XRF Measurement System Satisfies Need for Multi-Use Flexibility and Precision

Source: Bowman Platers that test many different parts need an XRF analyzer with expansive measurement area, selectable spot sizes, high precision and speed.

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Electroplating

Hexavalent to trivalent chromium — the environmental benefits

Regulatory pressures to switch from hexavalent chromium to trivalent alternatives are a growing concern for many finishing operations. In this Products Finishing Ask the Expert clinic, Brittany McKinney of Pavco discusses the environmental considerations driving these regulations. 

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