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Masking Suppliers
How do I provide masks and fixtures for the many different shapes and sizes of parts we produce?
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8 Things You Need to Know About Paint Booth Lighting
Global Finishing Solutions has come up with some helpful insights on lighting for paints booths which plays a crucial role in achieving a quality paint job.
WatchPassivation Concentration
I am reviewing my passivation process with nitric acid per ASTM 967 using nitric 2 (6.1.1.2), and am not sure how to mix or check the solution. I also want to be sure I am neutralizing correctly.
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Round of Applause for These Shops
Tired of all the bad news that seems to permeate everything you read, see or hear in the mainstream news media? Me, too. So we dug around in the mailbag, the inbox and anywhere else we could find to bring you some good news.
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MAXimizing Coating Opportunities
Chuck Gault had no plans to expand his Birmingham, Ala., company, Max Coating, to a second location more than 140 miles away in the heart of Atlanta until his employees stepped up and urged him to make the expansion a reality.
WatchA Conversation With Rand Baldwin, Aluminum Anodizing Council
Rand Baldwin is a 32-year veteran of business management and has served as chief staff executive for not-for-profit associations for the last 22 years. Last year, he was named executive director of the Aluminum Anodizing Council
Read MoreBridging the Sales-Operations Divide
Matt Kirchner recently assembled a group of manufacturing industry sales and operations professionals to define "Rules of Engagement," a group comprised of seven individuals with combined experience exceeding 120 years. Here's what they came up with.
Read MoreHave a Blast Cleaning Parts
The concept of the wet blasting process in parts cleaning and surface finishing is straightforward enough: combine abrasive media with water to form a special slurry, then add regulated compressed air to control the pressure as it is discharged over a surface.
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