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Tedlar Coating Alternatives: The Best Options for Performance and Durability
From: PolyonicsDescription: Polyonics polyimide and polyester labels and tags protect sensitive electronic devices from electrostatic charges. They create a barrier against static electricity, preserving the performance of ...
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White Paper: Cable Guiding in Vertical Drilling Rigs
From: igus® inc.Description: A power and signal supply system for heavy-duty applications is an example of the creativity of design engineers and how quickly they implement their ideas in the heavy machinery industry. Originally ...
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The Problem Isn't Moisture. The Problem Is Insulation Failure.
From: Dragon Jacket InsulationDescription: IF YOUR PIPELINE OR TANKS ARE LOCATED WHERE MOISTURE OR CONDENSATION EXISTS, YOU NEED MOISTURE-PROOF INSULATION. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. ...
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Pains of Powder Coating
Description: Powder coating is a process of coating metal with a plastic finish applied in a powder form, then cured, or baked which, during this curing stage, changes it to a fluid state allowing it to bond to ...
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High Load Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: All About Solid Film Lubricants ...
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Low VOC Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: All About Solid Film Lubricants ...
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Specialty Coatings and Lubricants
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: All About Solid Film Lubricants ...
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Light Load Low Friction Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: All About Solid Film Lubricants ...
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Air Dry / MRO Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: All About Solid Film Lubricants ...
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Waterproofing A Concrete Floor: What You Should Know
From: Polyguard Products, Inc.Description: Concrete floor waterproofing will protect a floor's integrity by reducing moisture accumulation, minimizing damage by freeze and thaw cycles, lessening spalling and cracks caused by surface erosion, ...
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Steve's Review of Agitators
Description: In today’s liquid coating finishing equipment and coatings review, the most overlooked area is the agitation of the coatings before and during use. Everyone looks at the coatings and the ...
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Case Study: Plastic Oil Distribution Rings Simplify Manufacturing and Reduce Costs for Wind Turbine Gear Boxes
Description: We worked with a wind turbine gear box OEM to develop a plastic oil distribution ring that reduces weight and machining time, improves lubrication, and minimizes internal friction ...
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Why Add Graphene to Powder Coatings?
Description: Functional powder coatings are surface coating materials with special functions and applications. ...
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FEVE Powder Technology for Weather- and Corrosion-Resistant Coatings
Description: The new research presented in this article examines weathering performance and corrosion resistance using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy testing of FEVE powder-based topcoats on aluminum ...
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Technical Papers: Evaluating High-Gloss, Direct-to-Metal, FEVE-Based Waterborne Coatings
Description: The research presented in this article evaluates corrosion inhibitors with blends of various waterborne acrylic and FEVE resins for improved adhesion and appearance after UV exposure and corrosion ...
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Friction and Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: Dry film lubricants offer very unique performance properties when friction is a concern. In most cases, solid film lubricants provide a lower coefficient of friction than traditional wet lubricants. ...
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Lubrication and Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: When using coatings for Lubrication purposes, the lubricant acts as a buffer to assist with motion ...
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Release and Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: In many applications, dry film lubricants offer excellent release properties. These release agents improve the effectiveness through multiple cycles of molding, keep tools clean longer, and provide ...
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Tube & Pipe Mills Move from Off-line to In-Line Coating: UV Makes it Possible
Description: For many years coatings have been applied over welded steel tubular products to provide protection against corrosion, enhance product appearance, and make the product more suitable for a specific end ...
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Selecting a Touch-Up Gun for an Automatic Finishing System
Description: Liquid coating expert Steve Romer recommends first looking at how the automatic system is being used. ...
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Tips for Applying Epoxy and High Solids Paint
Description: Controlling a coating's thermal viscosity is a top priority, says Sames Kremlin's Steve Romer. ...
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The Benefits of Using Coated Fabrics in High Temperature Applications
Description: Coated fabrics are used in a wide range of applications, in industries including aerospace, robotics, and welding. Used in high-temperature applications, coated fabrics can be made with varying ...
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The Benefits of Welding Curtains
Description: In an area where welding takes place, it can be extremely dangerous if the correct safety measures are not in place. There are various products that can be used for safety purposes within a welding ...
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The Materials Used to Make Heat Resistant Fabric
Description: Heat resistant fabrics are used for a wide range of applications including welding protection, aerospace safety, and fire prevention. Heat resistant fabrics can be made of a variety of different ...
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Corrosion and Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: Component corrosion performance can be greatly improved by the use of corrosion resistant coatings. ...
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Temperature and Coatings
From: Everlube ProductsDescription: When selecting a coating, it is very important that the coating have the correct formulation to provide the needed temperature advantage. ...
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CHEMEON TCP-NP Knowledge Base/FAQ
Description: CHEMEON TCP-NP (hex free) is chemical conversion coating on aluminum alloys with high corrosion protection, excellent adhesion qualities for subsequent paint and powder coat, low cost, quick and easy ...
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Spooky Fast Floor for Internet Icon
From: Key Resin CompanyDescription: When Eric Marks got a job to do a custom floor coating for Scottsdale, Arizona-based Spooky Fast Custom Finishing, he did not know the name would also apply to his job timeline. Marks, who owns First ...
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White Paper: Energy Saving Innovations in Paint System Design
Description: Lean manufacturing says that money spent on resources for any goal other than the creation of value is wasteful and should be eliminated. Green technology seeks to conserve natural resources and curb ...
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100HE Suspension Plasma Spray (SPS) and Solution Precursor Plasma Spray (SPPS) application development
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: A new breed of nano-structured coatings are being developed around the suspension plasma spray (SPS) and solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) processes. SPS and SPPS require more energy per ...
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100HE™ Abradable Coatings for Compressor Cases
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Progressive is working with turbine engine MRO facilities in an effort to improve the productivity and reduce the costs of applying abradable coatings on turbine engine compressor components. ...
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100HE™ Plasma Torch Stability
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Data from a 16-hour process run to validate the consistency of the 100HE plasma torch voltage and current control. ...
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Emerging Applications at University of Michigan - 100HE Axial Feed Liquid Precursor Plasma Spray
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: An overview of emerging applications using the 100HE plasma torch developed at the University of Michigan for medical implant and renewable energy programs. ...
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New battery manufacturing processes at UofM Dearborn reduce time, expense using 100HE plasma torch
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Pravansu Mohanty, associate professor of mechanical engineering at University of Michigan - Dearborn, has developed a new approach for direct deposition of phosphate and oxide compounds used in ...
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The 100HE Plasma Torch - a technical solution to thermal barrier coatings
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: The aircraft and industrial gas turbine industries constantly face new challenges as their hot section products are required to operate at higher temperatures and faster speeds for improved ...
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Unique Thermal Spraying System at KLM
From: Progressive SurfaceDescription: Presents a multi-process thermal spraying cell developed for KLM using arc spray, standard plasma spraying, 100HE™ high enthalpy plasma spraying, and HVOF coating technologies. This paper was ...
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Underground Mine Safety - The Role of Insulation (.pdf)
From: Firwin Corp.Description: From scoops and scalers to pallet handlers and personnel carriers, underground mining relies on diesel-powered equipment to get the job done. Diesel power provides the mine with a rugged, reliable, ...
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Corrosion Comparision Tantaline vs Coatings (.pdf)
From: TantalineDescription: A comparative study was conducted by an independent 3rd party to evaluate the performance of various coating systems, Tantaline and their corrosion performance in various media. ...
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Polycorp Aims to Dent Market With New Liner (.pdf)
From: Polycorp Ltd.Description: A stiffer tank car testing regulation in the U.S. and farsighted planning has put Polycorp Ltd. in what it believes is a very strong position. The company has come up with a process to extrude tank ...
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Shielding Touchscreens from EMI
From: Dontech IncorporatedDescription: The pros and cons of thin-film conductive coatings and fine conductive grid solutions. ...
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A Meter-Mix Solution for 3K CARCs (.pdf)
Description: A couple of years ago, one of the largest manufacturers of military vehicles in the U.S. faced changing its chemical agent resistant coating (CARC) system. Like many other finishing operations at the ...
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Effects of Graphite Type, Purity and Concentration on Grease Performance (.pdf)
From: Asbury Graphite MillsDescription: Abstract: The performance of six different graphite powders, as wear additives, was evaluated in clay filled polyalphaolefin (PAO) grease base. Neat PAO and PAO blends with each of four types of ...
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Surface Enhanced Flake Graphite and its Utility as a Functional Extender for Molybdenum Disulfide (.pdf)
From: Asbury Graphite MillsDescription: Abstract: The performance of surface enhanced natural flake graphite (SEFG) was studied to determine its utility as a functional extender for molybdenum disulfide in PAO grease. The SEFG was compared ...
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How PTFE Can Compete With The Best In Thermosets
From: TaconicDescription: With PTFE's low loss and stable Dk characteristics, its use as RF Microwave printed-circuit board (PCB) substrate is well-established. The growth in wireless-technology has by extension, driven the RF ...
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The Anisotropy of Dielectric Constant in TLY-5A Material
From: TaconicDescription: Anisotropy is often regarded as a drawback for woven fiberglass composite laminates. The data presented in this study are in contrast to this argument. Here TLY-5A with woven fiberglass exhibits ...
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Electropolishing Improves Lead Screw Surface Quality
From: Noll, Inc.Description: An electrochemical process which polishes a metal surface by removing a microscopic amount of material from the work piece. This process prepares metals for plating, anodizing or conversion coating ...
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Passivate Lead Screws for Extended Service Life
From: Noll, Inc.Description: Maximize corrosion resistance and reduce leadscrew surface impurities remaining from processing. Remove surface contaminations, such as iron particles left by cutting tools, that can form rust or act ...
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Plating Enhances Resistance to Lead Screw Corrosion
From: Noll, Inc.Description: Plating is the general name of surface-covering techniques in which a metal is deposited onto a conductive surface. Plating is indispensable as a corrosion inhibitor. for the manufacture of computers, ...
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Teflon Coating Reduces Lead Screw Friction
From: Noll, Inc.Description: PTFE was discovered serendipitously by Roy Plunkett of DuPont in 1938, while attempting to make a new CFC refrigerant, when the perfluorethylene polymerized in its storage container. DuPont patented ...
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Application of Ultrasonic Peening for Fatigue Life Improvement of Automotive Welded Wheels
Description: The efficiency of Ultrasonic Peening (UP) application for fatigue life improvement of automotive welded wheels was studied based on the results of fatigue testing of real wheels in as-welded condition ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Tubular Welded Joints by Ultrasonic Peening .(pdf)
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before and directed at the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Fatigue Life Improvement of Welded Elements by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The development of the Ultrasonic Peening (UP) technology was a logical continuation of the work done before directed on the investigation and further development of known techniques for surface ...
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Rehabilitation and Repair of Welded Elements and Structures by Ultrasonic Peening
Description: The Ultrasonic Peening (UP) is the most efficient technique for increasing the fatigue life of welded elements as compared to such existing improvement treatments as grinding, TIG-dressing, shot ...