Plating

The Surface Finishers Educational Association is hosting a free webinar on March 14 on ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Finishing Operations.’

Freedom Metal Finishing in Clearwater, Florida, has acquired United Metal Finishing in North Carolina.

A finisher in Italy needed help with aluminum castings that needed to be nickel-chromium plated.

Mindy Kaiser is the Operations Manager at Hohman Plating in Dayton, Ohio.

No one lamented the supply chain issues that U.S. manufacturers have endured over the past several years more than Gary Hamby, but he believes there is always an upside when things go down.

Investigators with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan officials are looking into a spill at the former Fini Finish Metal Finishing plant in Warren.

Innovative Certified Metal Plating and Anodizing in Minnesota has acquired Circle City Heat Treating.

A University of Hong Kong researcher reports the improved performance of new steel used in saltwater electrolyzer they say it is comparable to the practice that uses more costly high-purity titanium coated by gold and platinum.

Freedom Metal Finishing has been an approved supplier for dozens of top prime manufacturers for over 30 years, but that meant nothing to a few of them regarding cyber security.

The Surface Finishers Educational Association is hosting a free “Quality 101 for Electroplaters” webinar.

A shop was running an alkaline, non-cyanide zinc bath, and the brightness of their parts slowly degraded every week, causing them to seek a solution to the issue.

One of the major mistakes I consistently run across as a business coach is the lack of training in small companies, and my definition of ‘small' is sales under $300 million.

The first year of Robert Hunsucker’s realm as an electroplating shop owner in 2020 can be summed up by him in just two words.

A group of electroplaters in Connecticut are pioneering a new program to help recruit and train workers for their metal finishing facilities.

Steve Stone is the General Manager at Saporito Finishing in Chicago, where he has worked for almost 24 years.

Since aluminum is highly electropositive, plating onto its surface cannot be achieved.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency added seven per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the list of chemicals covered by the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI).

Gold and Silver are the most frequently electrodeposited of all the precious metals, and for the widest variety of applications.

A shop manager once asked me about an issue with rack-zinc plates for a customer per ASTM B633 Type lll Class FeZn8.

The Surface Finishers Educational Association is hosting its monthly meeting on January 11, featuring a talk on removing PFAS from finishing operations.