Plating

Powder Coating Audit Helps Key-Link Improve Processes

Jason Pugh was in the powder coating industry for only a few months before his company — Key-Link Fencing and Railing — presented him with a huge ...

Palm Springs Plating Looking Forward to Trivalent Transition

Ken Hoffmann was enjoying his life in luxurious Palm Springs, California when the call came that made him take a more serious tone about his life ...

Legends: Jim Jones, DIFCO

After more than 50 years in the finishing industry, you can now find Jim Jones soaring high above the clouds these ...

New Owners, Name, and Facility Spark Veterans Metal

Three years ago, Andrew Kossowski left the corporate world behind to buy a metal finishing operation. This year, he is building himself a new ...

TechTalk: Mariola Brandes, MacDermid Enthone, on TriMac Blue

We talk with Mariola Brandes about MacDermid Enthone's new TriMac Blue, a highly corrosion-resistant white trivalent chromium ...

TechTalk: Larry Ensley, Hubbard-Hall, Metal Guard 900

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

Reid Metal Finishing Counts on Team to Grow Business

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

TechTalk: Mike Black from Dynamix on Dynastrip OMS

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

TechTalk with Mark Miller, Torch Surface Technology on Eco-Quest

Torch Surface Technology, a division of Hubbard-Hall, says its Eco-Quest is a revolutionary advanced bonding and anti-corrosion treatment for all ...

Legends: Dan Brockman, Techmetals

Dan Brockman was a college student in the late 1960s when he took a part-time job at a manufacturer who also happened to be looking for a hard chrome ...

Video: How Finishers Can Prepare for the U.S. EPA PFAS Survey, Inspections

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be sending a PFAS questionnaire to electroplaters to collect data for the agency’s planned revision of the metal finishing and electroplating ...

Legends: Larry Capoccia, Alexandria Metal Finishers

Loreto “Larry” Capoccia came to the U.S. from Italy with his wife in 1966 and soon found a career in the metal finishing ...

TechTalk: Total Finishing Solutions Debuts Power Carts and Automated Stacking And Racking System

Lugging heavy parts around coating operations can be time-consuming and often painful for the employees who have to do ...

Legends: John Lindstedt, Advanced Plating Technologies

When John Lindstedt entered the Navy several decades ago, he was selected for the Nuclear Propulsion Program in support of the submarine ...

Legends: Robert Burger, KC Jones Plating

Robert Burger was about 10 years into his career at General Motors when his father called, asking him about coming back to work at KC Jones Plating in Warren, ...

Legends: Frank Altmayer, Finishing Consultant

Frank Altmayer always wanted to be an architect, but a change of direction became a benefit for the finishing ...

TechTalk with Bill Breault, Vantage Surface Treatment Technologies

Vantage Surface Treatment Technologies is part of a 40-year-old company that got its start in the late 1980s with the Montreal Protocol ...

TechTalk with Ian MacMoy, Intermetallic Group

Ian MacMoy is President and Chief Technology Officer for Intermetallic Group and chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s 20P Coating and Plating ...

Arizona’s Sav-On Plating Adds Lines as Last Stop Before Border

If a part is made in the U.S. and headed to Mexico to be assembled, then Sav-On Plating seeks to be a stop on the ...

TechTalk with Rich DePoto, Uyemura on Arguna

Silver has long been the metal of choice in finishing electronic components, and the surge of electric vehicles has put silver at the forefront of the automotive ...