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Finishing Industry Sets New Record
The Finishing Index hit 55.9 in October, narrowly beating the previous high it reached in February.
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Old School Ways for New Method Plating
Cadmium and die castings help a 86-year-old Massachusetts plating shop thrive.
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Pneu-Mech Executives Purchase Finishing Systems Firm
Pneu-Mech Systems President Jim Andrews and Vice President of Sales Jerry Trostle are purchasing the North Carolina company, which manufactures paint finishing systems and equipment.
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RPW/Elite Holding Plating Classes
The classes are designed to help customer service, engineers, designers, salesmen, purchasers and product managers who need more information on how plating is done and what plating can do.
Read MoreHow to Treat Spent Electroless Nickel Baths
What options do today’s platers have for dealing with the disposal of EN baths? Metal Chem’s Michael Aleksinas outlines the technology that’s currently available.
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Waterborne Coating Symposium is Feb. 4-9
The internationally renowned symposium offers a dual track schedule on the latest coatings technology and developments by outstanding industrial and academic scientists.
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Electrodeposited Inconel and Stellite-like Coatings for Improved Corrosion Resistance in Biocombustors
This work deals with problems in the Third World – namely improving the safety and efficiency of cookstoves used by people around the world. A scalable and economic process is required to apply coatings on low-cost stainless steel substrates for enhanced high temperature corrosion resistance specifically targeted towards biomass combustion apparatus. Cost effective, scalable, and flexible electrodeposition-based coating of various alloys [Ni/Co]-Cr-[Mo/Fe] system, that are able to withstand high temperature corrosion and improve the functional lifetime of existing and next generation bio-combustors components is a desirable technological advancement. Within this context, a wide array of electrolytes and processing parameters were evaluated to develop an ideal alloy coating.
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Direct Metallization for Plating on Plastics
A new combination of copper immersion and autocatalytic copper-(I)-oxide deposition enables lower palladium concentrations in the activator bath, though the amount of copper deposited on the plastic surface can be up to ten times higher compared to its predecessor processes.
Read MoreCrack Formation during Electrodeposition and Post-deposition Aging of Thin Film Coatings - 6th Quarterly Report
This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the sixth quarter of project work (April-June 2017) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the University of Houston. The objective of the work is to study fundamental and practical aspects of crack formation in electrodeposited thin films.
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