In an era when many finishing operations struggle to find labor, maintain production capacity, or weather economic slowdowns, Crest Coating in Anaheim, California, has taken a decidedly different ...
For more than three decades, Great Lakes Metal Finishing’s management team has always expected the best and braced for the worst when it comes to keeping their high-volume zinc and zinc-nickel ...
The Aluminum Anodizers Council (AAC) is celebrating a milestone in October as it hosts its 35th conference and exposition with a renewed focus on business growth, workforce development and technical ...
Editor's Note: Few individuals have influenced the exchange of technical knowledge within the metal finishing industry as profoundly as Ted Mooney, P.E. Engineer, consultant, educator, author, and ...
For more than six decades, Electro-Spec has quietly built a reputation as one of the most technically advanced and innovative high-reliability plating companies in North ...
When representatives from Boeing arrived at 3P Processing in Wichita, Kansas, several years ago, they delivered a message that left Terry Karst both surprised and ...
For many finishers, electrical consumption is one of the largest expenses in a facility, and older rectifier systems can consume significantly more power while also taking up valuable production ...
Former investment banker Jamie Visker had zero finishing experience when he bought Winona Powder Coating in 2002, which he thinks turned out to be a good ...
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 ...
For Magnum Powder Coating owners Nancy and Steve Couturier and their son Matt, it was always the plan that their son would take over someday when the parents retired from their Comstock Park, ...
In manufacturing, machining and surface finishing are often treated as sequential, separate disciplines—each critical to part performance, yet frequently disconnected in ...
James Simonelli’s appointment as executive director of the Metal Finishers Association of California isn’t just a change in leadership, but a natural continuation of a relationship decades in the ...
Jason Brassard grew his powder coating business the same way many others have: a small setup, a lot of trial and error, and a passion that quickly outgrew the ...
James DeDeus, President of JMD Industries in New Hampshire, says he didn’t need much time to decide whether acquiring Massachusetts’ Patriot Coatings made ...
