Plating

Corrosion experts from across the automotive supply chain will converge in Ann Arbor in May for the Automotive Corrosion Symposium, a two‑day technical event focused on the evolving challenges of corrosion protection in modern vehicle design.

The protection of steel by tin-zinc alloy electrodeposits may be increased significantly by passivation in solutions containing oxoanions of chromium, molybdenum, and tungsten.

Throughout my long career supplying metalworking fluids, surface preparation chemistry, maskants, and wastewater/waste services to the metal fabrication, finishing, and assembly segments, I’ve had the opportunity to live and work in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast regions of the United States.

What methods are available for treating spent electroless nickel plating solution?

The area of Long Beach, California, has long been a hub for aerospace activity.

Talica has acquired AeroDynamics Metal Finishing in Seabrook, New Hampshire.

The Metal Finishing Association of Southern California (MFASC) will host its 32nd Annual Golf Tournament and Fundraiser on Monday, May 11.

Mathematical studies of current and metal distributions include both macro-geometries and microprofiles.^1-14 However, they offer little assistance to the plater who must design and build a rack today to plate the part that must be shipped tomorrow.

NN, Inc., a North Carolina global industrial company that engineers and manufactures high-precision components and assemblies, acquired the large-scale automated plating operations from a leading global provider of electrical infrastructure solutions.

Rapid Electroplating Process, a manufacturer of portable electroplating equipment and supplies, has been purchased by B&B Electroplating, a metal finishing company.

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.