sustainability

Powder Coating

Heat Recovery

Is there a way to take the waste heat that goes up the cure oven stack and reuse it in the dry-off oven?

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Liquid Coating

When Help is Needed, Call out the Cavalry ... or Calvary Chemicals

Teams of Calvary employees and their families—more than 50 people in October alone—volunteer weeks at a time to provide care for orphans in Monterrey, Mexico through a partnership they have developed through Back2Back Ministries(back2backministries.org). This is not something that company president John Morelock just recently decided to undertake. He has been spearheading the effort since 2004, sponsoring mission trips for employees and their friends and family, providing opportunities to serve alongside Back2Back, and ultimately empowering sustainable long-term change for orphans.

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sustainability

FINISHING TOUCH: It's Not Easy Being Green

It’s a tight line to walk these days between running a finishing company that turns a profit and one that is also environmentally friendly, especially when our local, state and federal regulators keep moving the line every day with new rules (read: more moolah out the door).But this month in Products Finishing we take a look at what a group of California finishers are doing to work with their regulatory agencies to stay on the right side of their environmental responsibilities.The ‘Model Shop Program’ we write about this month focuses on a voluntary partnership between some finishing organizations and regulators to become more eco-friendly and reducing the amount of waste and contaminants that may be hurting the environment.It’s not an easy thing to do, graduating as a ‘model’ shop.

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sustainability

A Conversation With...Mark Ormiston

As director of research and development at Anomatic Corp., a Newark, OH-based anodized aluminum packaging company, Mark Ormiston knows what it's like to be constantly faced with a demand for more sustainable, green products and processes.

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energy

More Productive Painting

Electrostatic separation cuts costs, energy use, environmental impact.

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sustainability

‘Climate Change’ Agenda Becomes Clear

It’s more about politics than saving the planet.

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curing

Powder Palace

How a manufacturer of sporting goods turned its powder operation into the centerpiece of its plant to meet environmental guidelines and improve product quality

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ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT FOR LEASED BUILDING

Q: We are consolidating several plants into one location in order to improve our efficiencies and better serve our customers.

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Save the Dihydrogen Monoxide!

Ramping up water recycling in metal finishing

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Neutralizing pH

I am our facility’s environmental, health and safety manager. Periodically, we have very high-pH wastewaters that cause the pH within the cyanide oxidation step to be well above our desired upper limit of 11. Our operator has requested that we add sulfuric acid into the cyanide oxidation stage whenever the pH rises above 11. I am very concerned about the release of hydrogen cyanide if something goes wrong and the system accidentally drives the pH well below 7. Are there any safer acid substitutes?

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