Plating

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

A California environmental justice group has advised two plating operations that it intends to sue the companies because of excessive PFAS discharges.

A Minnesota chrome plating facility is paying $1.375 million as part of a settlement with the state for releasing hexavalent chromium and PFAS that officials sat reached nearby lakes.

As RoHS lead free regulations began to take hold globally, tin and its alloys were the first choice as an alternative to eutectic tin/lead.

The California Air Resources Board will hold a public hearing May 25 to vote on a proposed rule to phase out existing hexavalent chromium facilities over the next 10 years.

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

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

The EPA recently completed a draft health assessment on Chromium-VI that is causing controversy in the scientific community because it concludes that Chromium-VI is likely to cause cancer through drinking water.

The U.S. Department of Defense recently honored its Acquisition and Logistics-Heavy Metals Working Group in Washington, DC, for its work to reduce and/or eliminate the use of hexavalent chromium in weapon systems and maintenance processes.

Hohman Plating in has begun work on a $12 million expansion of its operations in Dayton, Ohio.

More than 30 members of the U.S. Congress are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to speed up its efforts to stop industries such as metal finishing from discharging PFAS into wastewater systems.

Minneapolis is working to ban any new electroplating operations from setting up shop in the city.

I had a client tell me about how their shop periodically experiences a number of plating problems in our barrel nickel plating operation.

An additional 248 finishing operations have been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency list of shops they will survey in the coming months on the use of PFAS in their wastewater treatment system.

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 plater.

To understand the future, one should start with an understanding of history and the technology involved.

With the hard insurance market continuing what may soon be a historical run, finishing and coating operators across the country are clamoring to gain clarity and control of their terms and premiums.

Mark Toni is a firm believer that, when it comes to the finishing industry, what happens off the shop floor is just as important as what happens on it.

The Department of Defense announced the 2023 Secretary of Defense Environmental Awards winners, including one for the elimination of hexavalent chromium in military processes.

We will discuss recent work on improving the wear performance of a functional chromium coating from a trivalent chromium plating bath.