Plating

As finishers continue searching for ways to improve efficiency, reduce downtime, and increase throughput, one piece of equipment is drawing renewed attention on plating lines: the rectifier.

Most owners we meet do not immediately decide to sell.

The porous pot was designed to purify hard chrome plating baths by supposedly removing iron, copper, and other tramp metals.

IGCS International, a provider of mission support and maintenance, repair, and operations supplies to the U.S. Department of War and federal agencies, says that Lacks Enterprises has acquired an equity stake in the company.

High-frequency and high-current pulse plating, as well as ultrasonic agitation, have been used to improve the smoothness and microhardness of copper coatings produced by electroplating from a sulfate bath in the absence of brightening agents.

A reader needed some help with a corrosion issue, as it seems that one of their competitors was able to deposit nickel and chromium onto their parts, achieving a significantly higher level of corrosion resistance than the finish they are applying.

Cerberus Capital Management says they have agreed to an investment in S+S Industries, a Houston-based metal finisher and provider of solutions and services for data center infrastructure.

The purpose of using electroplating is to reduce the high cost of corrosion of metal equipment. However, the dangers of this process are the basis for using industrial hygiene control methods in this industry.

The Colorado Air Quality Control Commission has adopted measures to control emissions of five priority air toxic contaminants, including hexavalent chromium compounds from finishing and coating operations.

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A Southeast Portland, Oregon, metal-finishing company has agreed to stop using a chemical solvent after a state agency says it exceeded health-risk levels.

A free webinar by Jim Castiglia, a business expert and writer at www.FinishingAndCoating.com, will provide information on how finishing and coating owners and managers can hire and retain employees to keep their businesses profitable.

Behind every high-performing electroplating process is a network of support systems that determine whether a line runs efficiently, safely, and profitably.

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.