Plating

If you’re a surface finisher working with the Department of Defense (DoD) or thinking about it, you’ve likely heard about Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC).

We spoke with Asa Halliday of Tri-Mer about designing and operating an effective exhaust system for facilities with finishing lines, including scrubber maintenance.

In recent years, magnesium (Mg) has evolved as a salient material, in affiliation with electroless nickel (Ni) coating, which have found applications in automobiles, aerospace and confederate fields attributing to its excellent inherent weight sensitive properties.

Not every offspring of a surface finishing company owner is destined to follow in their parent’s footsteps, work their way onto the shop floor, and eventually sit in an executive’s chair.

An electroplater wrote to me once that he knew absolutely nothing about magnesium.

The deposition of composite coatings by electroplating and electroless processes requires the addition of particles in metallic coatings, which improves the composite properties beyond the original matrix.

With an over 200,000-square-foot campus and more than 70 surface finishing processes, Techmetals in Dayton, Ohio, rarely had to tell a customer it couldn’t provide a coating for its parts.

I’m biased. As a business coach I truly believe everyone, and I mean everyone, can benefit enormously from having a great coach and advisor.

We spoke with Asa Halliday of Tri-Mer about designing and operating an effective exhaust system for facilities with finishing lines, including scrubber maintenance.

C&R Plating in Minneapolis, Kansas, sent two semi-trailers with essential supplies from north-central Kansas to the East Coast in October, providing much-needed relief to families affected by Hurricane Helene and Milton.

We spoke with Jameson Grout, a product specialist in Hubbard Hall's specialty chemical division, about the proper use of black oxide and its features.

It may sound easy, but aluminum provides specific challenges regarding effective surface preparation before plating.

In this investigation, pulsed current electro-deposition (PCE) was used to prefabricate Ni–Co/SiC + TiN composite coatings (NCSTCCs) on mild steel surfaces.

Scott Hanson will give you a quick reason why Electro-Coatings of Texas has been using a one-component electroless nickel product for the past eight years or so.

Gregg Romero from Ronatec discusses how their company has moved further into general metal finishing.

In situ TiC_p was fabricated via combustion synthesis in an Al–Ti–C system.

The former President of Steelworkers, Local 2513 for Marsh Plating in Ypsilanti, Michigan, has pled guilty to embezzling over $58,000 in union funds.

Eastern Plating in Newport, Tennessee, says it will furlough 119 of its employees after suffering damage from Hurricane Helene and the ensuing floods.

A plating shop manager was expected to troubleshoot each of their 22 processing lines.

Conventional electroplating processes for magnesium and its alloys have been in existence for many years.