Plating

The transition from internal combustion to battery electric vehicles (BEV) brings along new requirements and properties for corrosion protection.

A free webinar describes PFAS impacts on the due diligence process, and available PFAS insurance coverage.

OML and IML anodize coatings often get damaged, especially around fasteners and leading edges.

Stephanie Witt is the Customer Service Manager at Advanced Plating Technologies in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the recipient of a National Association for Surface Finishers Award of Merit at SUR/FIN this year.

Despite a new $4.3 million zinc plating line bustling away on their expansive facility, Professional Plating General Manager Larry Dietz knows that the success of their operation isn’t always in the latest technology.

EnerVenue, the first company to bring metal-hydrogen batteries capable of 30,000 cycles to the clean energy revolution, says it has completed agreements with Precision Process and Precious Plate. 

Plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) is a bath-based method of producing ceramic layers on the surface of light alloys.

When power is converted from AC to DC, the current flows in ripples. Just as a light powered by such a current would flicker, electrochemical processes are also affected, either slowing or stopping, even if just for milliseconds at a time – and undetectable by the human eye.

Golf club manufacturer Callaway says less plating on its new wedges should result in better results for most users.

A substantial category of metal finishing processes is — to varying degrees —temperature-dependent.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released four drinking water health advisories for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on June 15, reducing the safe level of chemical PFOA to now just four parts per quadrillion, more than 17,000 times what it had been previously.

Seventy years after it was founded, Lincoln Industries is behaving more like a startup than a mature, well-established company.

PPI Aerospace in Michigan is holding an auction of its entire facility, including plating and painting equipment.

Anoplate’s Milt Stevenson Jr. was presented with the Silvio C. Taormina Award by the National Association for Surface Finishing at the 2022 SUR/FIN conference in Chicago.

The National Association for Surface Finishing honored four individuals with its Award of Merit at the 2022 SUR/FIN conference in Chicago.

The Chicago Surface Finishing Foundation Golf Fundraiser and Chicago Midwest Chapter of NASF Leadership Summit are Aug. 15-16 in Oak Brook, Illinois.

The wife and husband team of Yoli and Chris Mara always dreamed of owning a recording studio, and having the ability to create masters was just icing on the cake.

Session 12 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Advances in Surface Finishing.”

Session 11 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Corrosion and Wear Deposit Coatings.”

Decades into a career as a metal finisher, chemical, and equipment salesperson, Marko Duffy can now add a new title to his resume: matchmaker.