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Liquid Coating

The Real Cost: C-Hooks Versus Parts Racks

Industrial finishing line consultant Dan Davitz discusses the advantages of parts rack over the use of C-hooks for your paint or powder coating line.

Improving Productivity Through Good Racking Design

Industrial finishing line consultant Dan Davitz offers ideas for optimizing and managing your racking procedures to improve productivity.

Liquid Coating

The Cost of Rehandling Parts

Good racking design can increase production rates and save labor costs.

Powder Coating

Loss of Efficiency

Experiencing a decline in efficiency? Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert offers ideas for improvement.

Powder Coating

Control of Powder Film Thickness

Powder coating consultant Rodger Talbert offers insights for film build control when powder coating.

EPSI Solutions for Masking, Hanging, Racking Challenges

Electroplating

Production Plus/MagicRack to Feature Standard and Custom Racking, Hooks, Logistic Carts

Powder Coating

Racks for Powder Coating

Powder coating consultant and PF columnist Rodger Talbert discusses the importance of good racking methods for your powder coating operation.

Rodger Talbert
Columnist, Products Finishing magazine

Conveying Long Parts Horizontally

Industrial finishing line consultant Dan Davitz offers advice for designing racking for navigating long parts along a monorail conveyor.

Electroplating

How to Design an Effective Racking System

Well-designed racking is an important part of any finishing operation. Richard Lang, who handles technical sales for EPSI’s racking and hanging division, offers insights for designing an effective racking system.

Electroplating

Production Plus Offers Custom Racking Solutions

Products designed to maximize density and efficiency in powder, ecoat, plating and wet spray systems.

Powder Coating

Powder Coating Hot Dipped Galvanized Steel

If you are not sure if the 3-stage washer is the best way to prepare the metal for powder, then Rodger Talbert has some tips to get the material ready.

Liquid Coating

Getting Your Pretreatment Process Ready for a Changeover to Thin Film Coating

Tomasz Slezak from Chemetall says thin-film technology enhances corrosion protection and paint adhesion, while providing a cost-efficient, eco-friendly process.

Electroplating

Evaluating and Solving Racking Needs on Any Scale

Taking on a new coating project can be challenging, but Donovan Dixon of ProductionPlus says proper planning can make things go smoother, especially if you are implementing a new line or a larger project.

Racking and Conveyor Automation Solutions

Considerations for automating various operations within a finishing system.

Powder Coating

How To Better Control Powder Coating Film Thickness

If you struggle to avoid light coating in some areas of your parts, then expert Rodger Talbert has some suggestions on how to better control film build.

Liquid Coating

Options for Removing Paint from Part Racks

Traditionally, paint removal is achieved by either mechanical, thermal or chemical methods, and often it is contracted out.There are some key disadvantages to outsourcing your paint-removal requirements, however, explains Atotech’s Sylvain Masson.

Powder Coating

Leading an Effective and Efficient Powder Coating Operation

Axalta Coating Systems’ Mike Withers has some sound advice for an inexperienced painter who’s been charged with running a powder line.

Powder Coating

Fixing Adhesion Failures and Bubbles in Powder Coating on Zinc

Expert Rodger Talbert helps a coater who is having issues with the application of powder on zinc castings.

Electroplating

Using Eductors to Achieve Uniform Plating

The ABCs of good plating from Bex’s Dave Keely: agitation balances chemistry.

Are Burn-Off Ovens Safe?

Steelman Industries’ Carlton Mann says burn-off ovens are safe, and he offers some considerations for installing one.

Powder Coating

A Software Platform for Self-Programming, Autonomous Robotics

Omnirobotic is delivering an automation solution that could transform the way finishing shops consider robotics.

Chris Pasion
Managing Editor

Liquid Coating

Tips for Applying Epoxy and High-Solids Paint

Controlling a coating’s thermal viscosity is a top priority, says Sames Kremlin’s Steve Romer.

Electroplating

RighTech Maintains Decades-Deep Design Library

RighTech Fabrications offers an extensive library of heat exchangers, racking systems, anode baskets, custom components and specialty fasteners, having created thousands of parts and designs for metal finishing clients over its 50 years in business.

Powder Coating

Determining the Best Racking Arrangement for Powder Coating

Use common sense to figure out the optimum hanging patterns for coating parts, advises powder expert Rodger Talbert.

Electrocoating

Reducing Ecoat Costs Without Affecting Quality

Axalta’s Joe Subda suggests taking an eight-step problem-solving approach to get cost savings from an electrocoating operation.

Powder Coating

Improving Corrosion Protection

How can you improve a powder coating system to prevent corrosion on parts? Powder Expert Rodger Talbert suggests adding blasting and priming.

Anodizing

Solving Corrosion on Black-Dyed 7000 Series Alloy

What caused corrosion on one shop’s black-dyed parts? Anodizing expert Larry Chesterfield offers troubleshooting advice.

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