Iowa’s SunHydrogen, a developer of a technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and water, says it will work with a South Korean company on electroplating solutions to optimize its equipment in a scale-up process.
Kuntz Electroplating in Kitchener, Ontario, is receiving $3 million to create jobs and strengthen its manufacturing capabilities in the automotive and electric vehicle industry
This third article on motivation in the finishing and coating industry starts with a reflection on your part.
Dummying is the plating industry jargon for electrochemical purification.
Greg Andrews made one of the most important business decisions of his life in 2020 to buy new machinery for his family-owned plating operation, and a few months later, he had buyer’s remorse.
Aotco Metal Finishing, a Massachusetts-based finisher, announced its acquisition of Connecticut-based Modern Metal Finishing.
Ceramic substrates have been used for many years in the production of electronic circuits.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pushed the timeline for the final rule on PFAS CERCLA designation from August 2023 to February 2024.
Regulatory and cost drivers have increased the focus on rinsewater reduction at the Boeing Plant in Auburn, Washington.
The State of Ohio has filed a lawsuit against three people convicted for their role in a clean-up of a plating site in Sebring, Ohio.
An environmental non-profit group is targeting five more California finishing operations with alleged violations of the state’s safe drinking act.
We talk with Mariola Brandes about MacDermid Enthone's new TriMac Blue, a highly corrosion-resistant white trivalent chromium process.
A study by the Department of Energy of 20 metal finishing facilities of various sizes found that electrical energy consumption ranged from 3.03 X 105 kw-hr/yr to 1.31 X 107 kw- hr/yr, with an average of 2.65 X 106 kw-hr/yr.
PFAS manufacturers Chemours, DuPont de Nemours, and Corteva say they have reached an agreement to resolve all PFAS-related drinking water claims with U.S. water systems.
A unique collegiate program in Germany is supplying the European market with research and managerial talent in the electrochemistry and electroplating field.
The stripping of electrodeposited and flame-sprayed coatings is a necessary part of surface finishing.
California finishers will be prohibited from using hexavalent chromium in their operations after a state board voted to ban the naturally-occurring element from production.
An impurity is anything in the bath other than pure water and the desired chemicals.
A fire at High Tech Finishing in Houston destroyed a considerable amount of the facility’s plating operation.
Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new water treatment that removes PFAS from drinking water safely, efficiently, and for good.
The biggest misunderstanding I run across with coaching clients is that money motivates people to perform.
