From Hubbard-Hall, Inc.

A customer was looking for a safe alternative to a hazardous hot caustic soda solution for stripping anodizing racks.

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Topics of Interest

Chemical resistance of Silver Sulfate to Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda).

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As an effort to understand the details of the METALAST anodizing process in terms of its advantages over the traditional anodizing process and the mechanisms of anodizing under the constant current...

The METALAST process includes the METALAST anodizing solution chemistry and Process Control System (MPCS). The anodizing recipes tailored for various alloys and different anodizing applications can be...

The effect of the METALAST additive on the chemical dissolution of bare aluminum in anodizing solutions was investigated in this study. The results showed that the dissolution rates of aluminum alloys...