Conversion Coatings

TechTalk with Todd Gragg, IFS Powder Coating, on Low Cure

We spoke with Todd Gragg, IFS Powder Coatings' Heat Sensitive Substrates Manager, about new products and developments in the low cure powder coating ...

Attorney Ethan Ware Talks Finalized EPA Rule on PFAS Reporting

We spoke with attorney Ethan Ware to get his perspective on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalizing its rule on reporting on PFAS to the Toxics Release Inventory ...

UniMetal Surface Finishing Uses Diversity, Expertise to Attract OEMs

The finishing industry requires many operations to pay attention to who their competition might be, and sometimes, it even requires them to join ...

TechTalk: Kees Stigter from Hendor on New Filtration Systems

We talked with Kees Stigter from Hendor about their new filtration system in use by many finishing operations across the ...

Anchor Bay Powder Coat Manages Growth Through Improved Shop Efficiencies

When owner Rob Thomas looks at his management team at Anchor Bay Powder Coat in New Baltimore, Michigan, he sees several people who have played a big role in the success of his ...

TechTalk with Tim Brinner, IFS Coatings on Thermoplastics

We speak with Tim Brinner, Vice President of Thermoplastics at IFS Coatings, about their various products and how applicators are using ...

AR Powder Coating Earns Certs Through Training and Persistence

AR Powder Coating’s Tony Sclafani has his own take on what the 5P idiom means when it comes to running his company’s powder coating ...

TechTalk: Hope Dollarhide, FANUC on New Robots

We chat with Hope Dollarhide, FANUC’s Project Engineer for Automotive Component and Industrial Paint, about the upcoming FABTECH ...

TechTalk: Scott Romberger on MacDermid Envio Solutions’ EnvioTRI

MacDermid Envio Solutions has launched a new trivalent chromium wastewater treatment process, ...

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 ...