Vacuum Vapor
Hartzell Air Movement Showcases Its Line of Fiberglass Fans
At SUR/FIN 2021, Hartzell Air Movement will showcase its line of fiberglass fans, which the company recommends for situations where corrosive elements exist in fume or in vapor form.
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Replacement or Reinforcement of DLC Coatings
Expanite, a Danish pioneer of surface hardening of stainless steel and titanium, replaces or supplements the widespread DLC coatings with its technology.
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DriSteem Hires Two New Engineers
The water treatment corporation welcomes Tom Swanson and Hugo Chavolla
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Extending Bath Life and Reducing Process Challenges in Vapor Degreasing Systems
How using a stabilizer can extend your bath life and help you avoid costly system repairs.
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Tiger Group Listing PVD and Other Equipment For Bulk Offers
Tiger Group is listing four robot-automated parts-washing, powder-coating and vacuum metallizing lines from Winona PVD — including “like-new” PVD equipment.
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Expanding Medical Coating Capabilities
One company’s approach to broadening its functional coatings offerings to further serve the medical sector.
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Cefla Promotes Samuel Mask to Permanent Role
Cefla North America has hired Samuel Mask as a lab application technician, promoting him from the intern position he began in October 2019.
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Cefla Finishing Adds National Service Manager Role
Cefla has created a new national service technician position, hiring industry veteran Sauro Tugnoli to fill it.
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Coating the Webb
From its signature primary mirror to thermal control for its instruments, the James Webb Space Telescope is enabled by gold coatings.
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Plastics and Plating on Plastics [1944]
This republished 1944 AES convention paper presents an historic perspective of the early days of plastics in surface finishing - using them and plating on them, in the waning years of World War II. The discussion reviews the uses of plastics in plating equipment and processing at that time, as well as the coating of the plastics themselves, with accompanying application photos. You will note that today’s conventional plating-on-plastics processes lay far in the future. Surprisingly, CVD processes are discussed.
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