Plating

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.

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One of the biggest challenges for OEMs, manufacturers, and finishers is providing protection on bare metal surfaces for extended indoor and outdoor exposures.

A California environmental justice group has advised two plating operations that it intends to sue the companies because of excessive PFAS discharges.

A Minnesota chrome plating facility is paying $1.375 million as part of a settlement with the state for releasing hexavalent chromium and PFAS that officials sat reached nearby lakes.

As RoHS lead free regulations began to take hold globally, tin and its alloys were the first choice as an alternative to eutectic tin/lead.

The California Air Resources Board will hold a public hearing May 25 to vote on a proposed rule to phase out existing hexavalent chromium facilities over the next 10 years.

Owning a finishing operation can almost feel like getting kicked in the groin at times.

We talk with Mike Black from Dynamix about their new carbide in nickel-copper matrix stripping solution, Dynastrip OMS.

The EPA recently completed a draft health assessment on Chromium-VI that is causing controversy in the scientific community because it concludes that Chromium-VI is likely to cause cancer through drinking water.