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| A Coatings Campus | |
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Products Finishing magazine was recently invited to spend a day inside PPG's Application and Process Development Lab in Flint, Michigan. Anticipating little more than a showcase of PPG's products, we found that the facility serves as an educational tool for finishers and a risk-management resource...
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| Bobcat Company Improves Productivity and Quality with Custom Masks | |
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Bobcat Company was looking for a masking product to improve its line speed and product quality at its Bismarck plant, but it needed a product that could withstand the harsh electrocoat and powder coat environment?
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| Building an E-coat Line from the Ground Up | |
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How one company is prospering by providing flexible e-coat capability to Nissan and other customers.
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| Building an E-coat Line from the Ground Up | |
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How one company is prospering by providing flexible e-coat capability to Nissan and other customers.
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| Bulk E-Coat Has Arrived | |
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Electrocoating has long been recognized as an excellent way to apply a high-quality primer or finish coat on metal parts. It can be applied in a thin and uniform film with penetration into recesses and excellent corrosion resistance. Parts can be hung closely together, and there is no application labor. Material utilization is very high because there is no overspray, and the process generates minimal amounts of VOCs.
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| Controlling Your Electrocoating Line | |
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Electro-Coat Technologies electrocoats RV chassis and other large parts. While this has helped Electro-Coat Technologies become one of the few suppliers to this niche market, the large tanks have required some extra controls to keep them operating properly...
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| E-Coat: Quantity or Quality | |
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All finishers want a high-quality line with high throughput. But a company's decisions will typically favor one or the other. Quaker Mfg. Inc. chose quality over quantity...
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| E-quation for Success | |
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Adding E-Coat E-quals E-xpanded Opportunities for Job Shops and OEMs...
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| Efficient Electrocoat Tank Operation | |
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To prosper in today?s economic climate, Electrocoaters must be dedicated to never-ending improvement in quality and productivity. Because customers want higher quality at a lower price, Electrocoaters must seek more efficient ways to produce coated parts, consistently, in order to meet these customer's needs. I have heard these or a variation of these statements a lot lately but what do these statements mean?
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| Electrocoat Earns an ?A? | |
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When it wanted to expand its profits and customer base, Detroit-based Burkard Industries added Class A electrocoating to its repertoire of services...
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| Electrocoating | |
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Electrodepositing paint on products immersed in a waterborne paint produces uniform finishes with excellent coverage and outstanding corrosion resistance. The process is cost effective and offers easy environmental compliance. Pretreatment, the types of paint applied, choosing between anodic and cathodic processes, typical applications.
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| Electrocoating | |
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Electrocoating is a widely used coatings technology offering superior performance, environmental compliance, and low total applied cost.
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| Electrocoating: A Special Focus by Products Finishing Magazine | |
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The editors of PF, in cooperation with The Electrocoat Association, have compiled a 32-page supplement devoted exclusively to the Electrocoat process.
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| Is In-house E-Coating Right For Your Company? | |
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Should your company electrocoat its products in-house or should it outsource the work? This question is one that has been brought up in the front office of many companies ever since e-coat became recognized as an effective and desirable coating process.
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| Keeping E-Coat Clean | |
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Centrifugal filtration improves process and reduces operating costs.
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| Meeting The Challenges of Contract Electrocoating | |
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There are many challenges in running an electrocoat line, including processing a range of products for a varied customer base.
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| New Electrocoating Equals Success | |
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An increase in quality. An increase in production. A corporate initiative to reduce waste. All of these were factors in Modine's adoption of a new electrocoating. While the transition wasn't easy, it certainly has paid off . . .
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| Quality is Job 1 | |
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Thanks to a high-quality electrocoat, a unique approach to coating bumpers and an excellent relationship with its supplier, Meridian has a 100% quality rating for electrocoat-only parts and a high quality rating for A-gloss parts...
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| The End of Life Vehicle Directive and International Material Data System | |
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Industrial components are used in a variety of applications, including the automotive industry, and they are manufactured from an ever-diverse range of materials. Since many of these materials alone do not possess all the inherent properties needed to meet performance requirements, manufacturers use the enhancing benefits of surface coatings to bridge the gap between the base material properties and the end use requirements.
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