When Dan Rose was looking for a new business opportunity in 1999 and asked one of his machine shop customers if he wanted to form a partnership to help grow the business, he didn’t get the response he was expecting.
Coloring aluminum by means of electrolytic 2-step has been widely practiced in North America since the late 1970s.
Thousands of aluminum anodizers dye their products. These companies range from Job shops with 45-gallon tanks to architectural plants with tanks holding 7,000 gallons.
When Jon Allen became General Manager of Luke Engineering and Manufacturing earlier this year, he and President Meghan Bates quickly decided on a change to the name of the company.
The primary use of a deox is to clean the residue (smut) off of an etched aluminum part. Etch smut is made up of the chemical compounds that are found in different aluminum alloys.
The Aluminum Summit on Sept. 14-16 in Nashville is the collocated event of the Aluminum Anodizers Council’s (AAC) Annual Anodizing Conference and the Aluminum Extruders Council’s (AEC) Management Conference.
Douglas Greene often gets the same response from first-time visitors to Hixson Metal Finishing in Newport Beach, California.
The anodizing industry faces increasing pressure. As production cycles shorten, anodizing suppliers are required to deliver faster.
Most anodizers have a caustic etch bath in their process line to use for stripping aluminum racks before re-use, activating the surface of parts before going on to be anodized and for many finishers it is used to impart a low gloss appearance to the surface.
Gamma Aerospace has completed a $10 million expansion of service offerings at its Mansfield, Texas operation and its Rapid Anodizing facility in Los Angeles, California.
Jacqueline Cook, Lab Chemist for Reliant Aluminum Products, provides this presentation on Non-Nickel Seal Alternatives for Dyed Aluminum.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear awarded Perry County Fiscal Court more than $2 million in grants for an expansion at Dajcor Aluminum, a Canadian manufacturer of extruded and fabricated aluminum products based at the Coalfields Industrial Park in Hazard.
The acid etch referred to in this technical data sheet is the process that North American architectural anodizers have been adopting since 2005.
The Aluminum Anodizers Council (AAC) is introducing a new podcast series aimed at educating and informing both anodizing industry professionals and anodizing end users.
Getting the aluminum product that you want means being clear about specifications.
Do you often experience that working with anodizing suppliers can be challenging?
Bowers Aluminum in Battle Creek, Michigan, is planning to expand its manufacturing operations in Battle Creek’s Ft. Custer Industrial Park.
