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Breaking Up is Hard to Do

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

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Finishing of large diesel engines benefits from paint system improvements

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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?

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Extreme Cleaning

Military components pose unique cleaning, stripping challenges

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Race to the Finish

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

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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.

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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?

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A Conversation With ...Marek Urban

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

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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?

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The Double-Edged Sword

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

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