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Just go to Google – Nanomaterials, nanotechnology and nanoprocessing are the marketing buzzwords for the 21st century.

An Ohio-based aluminum anodizer is partnering with a recycler to offer 100% recycled aluminum in a new product line for cosmetics.

Increasing demands for environmental accountability and energy efficiency in industrial practice necessitates significant modification(s) of existing technologies and development of new ones to meet the stringent sustainability demands of the future.

Linetec has added “Architectural Design Opportunities: Utilizing High-Performance Coatings” as a new online, on-demand, video continuing education course at Learn.Linetec.com.

In this theoretical treatment, the approach to the anodic aluminum oxide structure is based upon the premise that it is a self-assembled, highly ordered, nano-scale network of individual cells.

The Aluminum Anodizers Council’s 31st annual Anodizing Conference and Exposition will be October 4-6 in Kansas City, Missouri.

The International Hard Anodizing Association is holding its 18^th Technical Symposium Sept. 21-23 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Walt Tarr can go to any department at the Toyota Motor North America R&D facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and find the expertise he seeks.

No one knows that life is often a roll of the dice more than Vegas Metal Finishing owner Jessica Famiglietti Young.

We bring anodizers and manufacturers in from around the country to teach them the best practices for aluminum anodizing.

Global contract manufacturer Lincotek has closed the acquisition of a majority stake in Danco Medical from Danco Anodizing in Warsaw, Indiana.

Elite Metal Finishing LLC in Oxnard, California, has purchased A.M. Metal Finishing in Orlando, Florida, to serve their aerospace clients on the Eastern seaboard.

Sierra Aluminum  announced expansion plans that will increase its extrusion, anodizing and painting capacity with the addition of a greenfield facility in Mexicali, Mexico, and new investments in its existing California facilities.

Ed Bryant is President at Altech Anodizing in Delta, British Columbia, Canada, which serves customers all over Canada and the United States.

We often talk about the anodizing process itself and how we can improve it. But today, we’ll start a little before the actual anodizing step.

Reiner Goertzen is a manufacturing engineer by trade and a problem solver by heart.