Plating

The NASF Palmetto Southeast Chapter’s 12th Annual Myrtle Beach Technical Conference: is October 7-9 at the Myrtle Beach, SC Hampton Inn & Suites Oceanfront Hotel.

Bobbi Burns is general manager Global Plating in Fremont, California, where she handles just about everything for the operation, from receivables to HR, quality, purchasing, regulatory compliance, and EHS.

Chrome plating, which has been around almost a century, is a technique of electroplating either a thin layer deposit (< 0.000015 inches) for decorative applications or thick layer deposit (>0.001 inches) for functional applications of chromium metal onto objects.

Years ago, Tamea Franco was a typical entrepreneur in Roanoke, Virginia, she spent a lot of time in her basement with numerous buckets of chemicals and sheets of aluminum performing anodizing experiments.

Greg Terrell, Pretreatment Product Manager at Coventya, Inc., had someone contact him recently with this question: We are plating 4130, 9300 and a couple other alloys through cyanide cad and are experiencing random pitting that we cannot trace to current density.  The pits do not go to substrate, so we have ruled out the pretreatment. Can you visit and offer a fresh set of eyes?

ResinTech Inc. announced that is has officially moved into its new global headquarters in Camden, New Jersey. The $138.8M development project includes 353,000 square feet of new construction on a twenty-seven acre campus just two miles from Center City Philadelphia.

William Saas is a legend in the finishing community, and this year was given the NASF Presidential Award, which focuses on extraordinary service by an NASF member who is actively participating on the national level, who goes above and beyond the capacity of most.

EFCO Finishing in Menomonee Falls, WI is partnering with GPS Education Partners to build its industry talent pools and future workforces using the unique youth apprenticeship program designed by GPSEd. 

Michael Kelly is president at Coventya, a global supplier of specialty chemicals for electroplating and surface finishing. He started his finishing career at Taskem, and joined Coventya when Taskem and Sirius Technology merged to form the new company.

AOTCO Metal Finishing has acquired Plating for Electronics, a leading provider of specialty anodizing, electroplating, and laser marking services based in Waltham, MA.

Arlington Plating Company (APC) in Palatine, Illinois, has been to sold to Garth Davies, a plating industry veteran and also the owner of Midwest Rustproofing and Enameled Steel.

Mark Burger is vice president at KC Jones Plating in Warren, Michigan. They also have locations in Indiana and Mexico, and Burger has been instrumental in growing this family-owned company.

Question: We are experiencing patterns and streaking coming out of our EN (electroless nickel) bath. What can we do to rectify this?

Marc Aleksinas is the business manager at Metal Chem in the Greenville, South Carolina area. Metal Chem develops, manufactures, and services products used in the metal finishing industry, including electroless nickel and wastewater treatment chemicals. An avid soccer fan, Aleksinas played at Vanderbilt University.

Metal Finishing Technologies In Bristol, Connecticut, says the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (Nadcap) has officially accredited the company’s nickel sulfamate plating processes.

Dixie Industrial Finishing in Tucker, Georgia, has changed name to Durable Industrial Finishing and will be referred to as Difco. While the company is currently celebrating 60 years of business, Difco believes the time to make a name change is now.

Reliable Plating Works (RPW), one of the largest nickel-chrome platers in Wisconsin with over 100 employees, has launched a Custom Chrome division.

Tyler Goad is the Operations Manager at GOAD Company in the Kansas City, Missouri area, a custom fabricator of corrosion resistant tanks and equipment to the chemical processing industry. He joined the company in 2011, after earning a bachelor's degree in business administration and management from the University of Missouri.

Each year, the National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF) recognizes members who stand out amongst their peers for their contributions to the finishing industry on the local and national levels. Although SUR/FIN 2020 in Atlanta was postponed due to COVID-19, the Awards Committee of NASF felt it important to still recognize these deserving members and will be presented their physical awards during SUR/FIN 2021 in Detroit, Michigan.