sustainability

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NASF Says EPA Chromium Air Rules Have Major Flaws

Claims EPA Used Data from 'Phantom Facilities'

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nasf

NASF Washington Forum Features Ex-EPA Chief Carol Browner As Speaker

As the longest-serving EPA Administrator, Browner worked closely with the surface finishing industry during the Clinton Administration on the Metal Finishing "Strategic Goals" Program. She most recently served as an assistant to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.

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sustainability

Guys Like Ray Lucas Make A Shining Example

Having the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show up at your front door on a Monday morning is never a good sign—kind of like Mike Wallace and a 60 Minutes crew, or maybe even your in-laws. But Ray Lucas and his employees at Valley Chrome Plating in Clovis, Calif., just didn’t see it that way.

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energy

Positive Energy Growth

Chrome Deposit Corp. reduces its energy use, minimizes its environmental impact and improves its energy-management practices.

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Parts Cleaning

Troubleshooting the Pretreatment and Paint Process

We had finished parts sectioned, mounted, polished and examined under a microscope with the hopes of identifying deficiencies within our coating system that cause premature failure. One of the items brought up are oxides trapped within scratches and scale texture under the e-coat. The substrate is hot-rolled-steel (recycled steel) bar that has been steel shot blasted then put through the standard cleaning process prior to e-coating. Have you ever heard of or seen steel shot blasting driving oxides into small crevices or texturing natural to hot-rolled steel? We cannot seem to figure out why these oxides are still present after shot blast and pickling.

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regulation

The EPA’s Common Sense Initiative and Its Legacy on the Finishing Industry

The Common Sense Initiative was the centerpiece of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s much-touted regulatory reinvention in 1994. Called a “bold experiment,” the EPA developed the Common Sense Initiative to address claims that its regulatory process had become burdensome, inefficient and costly.

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Recovery/Recycling Methods for Metal Finishers

A guide to lowering pollution and recovering valuable process constituents.

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Powder Coating

Value of Powder Environmental Room

For several years we have operated our powder system without a room to enclose the booths and application process. It has worked out OK, but we need to make some adjustment for different humidity conditions. Is the cost of adding the room is justified?

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Nitric Acid Passivation and EH&S Impact

I am looking for safety/environmental requirements to set up a nitric acid cleaning and passivation system.

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Anodizing

Supreme Court Rejects Climate Change Suit

Based in Federal Common Law of Nuisance

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