Plating

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released four drinking water health advisories for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) on June 15, reducing the safe level of chemical PFOA to now just four parts per quadrillion, more than 17,000 times what it had been previously.

Seventy years after it was founded, Lincoln Industries is behaving more like a startup than a mature, well-established company.

PPI Aerospace in Michigan is holding an auction of its entire facility, including plating and painting equipment.

Anoplate’s Milt Stevenson Jr. was presented with the Silvio C. Taormina Award by the National Association for Surface Finishing at the 2022 SUR/FIN conference in Chicago.

The National Association for Surface Finishing honored four individuals with its Award of Merit at the 2022 SUR/FIN conference in Chicago.

The Chicago Surface Finishing Foundation Golf Fundraiser and Chicago Midwest Chapter of NASF Leadership Summit are Aug. 15-16 in Oak Brook, Illinois.

The wife and husband team of Yoli and Chris Mara always dreamed of owning a recording studio, and having the ability to create masters was just icing on the cake.

Session 12 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Advances in Surface Finishing.”

Session 11 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Corrosion and Wear Deposit Coatings.”

Decades into a career as a metal finisher, chemical, and equipment salesperson, Marko Duffy can now add a new title to his resume: matchmaker.

While it may be true that the spotlight on the alleged health hazards of hexavalent chromium is mainly because of its use (or misuse) as a corrosion inhibitor — particularly in cooling waters and chromates — the entire chromium-based industry is bearing the burden of recent negative publicity.

Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, in Canada has launched a new Carbon to Metal Coating Institute.

Session 10 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Light Metals Processing.”

The largest nonprofit applied science and technology organization in the world has developed an on-site solution destroys PFAS in contaminated water to non-detectable levels.

Once dubbed “forever chemicals,” per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, might be in the market for a new nickname.

A St. Mary’s College professor has received an award for developing an electroplating process for glow-in-the-dark finishes being used by the U.S. Navy.

The National Association for Surface Finishing says in its 2022 Economic Impact Report on the U.S. surface finishing industry that there are more than 2,600 shops with an economic output of almost $11 billion.

The evolution of the plating process has been a slow one relative to other manufacturing processes.

Session 9 at the NASF SUR/FIN Technical Conference will be on “Aerospace/Defense/Military Zinc Nickel Advancements.”

Bill Nebiolo from REM Surface Engineering speaks about the 2022 Technical Conference at the NASF SUR/FIN Conference, which will be held June 7-9 in Rosemont in Chicago.