In manufacturing, machining and surface finishing are often treated as sequential, separate disciplines—each critical to part performance, yet frequently disconnected in execution.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it is renewing a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) initiated under the first Trump Administration with eight associations representing the aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel industries.
James Simonelli’s appointment as executive director of the Metal Finishers Association of California isn’t just a change in leadership, but a natural continuation of a relationship decades in the making.
In the metal finishing industry, most businesses are valued as a multiple of their EBITDA.
Canadian officials are pointing the finger at a Fredericton electroplating shop as the source of a 237-gallon chemical spill along a 9-mile stretch of roadway, including hexavalent chromium, that could lead to a $1 million fine.
Plating Solutions in Cincinnati says it has launched a new silver electroplating line at its facility.
To help practicing electroplaters better cope with problems that occasionally occur in their plating lines, an attempt was made to analyze their causes and offer practical answers.
A colleague of mine, a former executive suite and management consultant for Harley Davidson, Lockheed Martin, and Northwestern Mutual, once wrote about delegation.
James DeDeus, President of JMD Industries in New Hampshire, says he didn’t need much time to decide whether acquiring Massachusetts’ Patriot Coatings made sense.
Inside a busy laboratory at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, a team of chemists and technicians works tirelessly, ensuring the readiness of aircraft and the safety of personnel.
You just received an offer, maybe multiple offers, to acquire your metal finishing business.
Hex-hard chrome is critical, as surfaces plated with hard chrome are everywhere in commerce, yet most people don’t realize the industry even exists.
Lutron Electronics, a manufacturer of lighting control, shading solutions, and lighting fixtures, has acquired Tanury Industries, a surface finishing and metal coatings company in Lincoln, Rhode Island.
A finishing operation had an air-agitated wastewater treatment basin made of concrete, with a “gate” that is made of aluminum 6061 alloy.
An acid copper sulfate bath is the standard electrolyte for copper plating on wafers for interconnection.
ASTM International is holding a workshop on PFAS, percentages of hexavalent chrome in trivalent chrome, and cadmium plating properties.
The electroplating and surface finishing sector in the United Kingdom is shrinking at an accelerating rate, new research shows, with one in six firms lost in the last 10 years.
American Electro Products and American Plastic Products in Waterbury, Connecticut, have been purchased by Sumco, which has plating facilities in Indiana and Illinois.
RESRG Automotive says it is closing two of its nine electroplating operations in the U.S.
Chromic acid is the major ingredient for hard chrome baths. It’s also the most expensive component and is used at high concentrations, typically between 30-35 ounces per gallon (225-263 g/l).
This study fabricated two joint types, rolled Cu/sintered Cu/rolled Cu and electroplated Cu/sintered Cu/electroplated Cu, referred to as the rolled and electroplated Cu joints, respectively.
