Carbodeon Ltd. Oy, a market leader in high-performance additives for the metal plating industry, has appointed industry specialist John Torr as an Advisory Board member.
Wheelabrator Group (Canada) Ltd., experts in metallic surface preparation, celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and luncheon after moving to a new location and office complex in Burlington, Ontario.
The steel industry is a highly competitive world market. The industry is always in search of innovative and fresh manufacturing methods to improve quality and lower costs. One wouldn’t automatically think the metal stud industry utilizes cutting-edge technology to create their products, since studs are well hidden and only visible during construction, but this is a common misconception.
PERFORMALOC™ advanced productivity coatings are a new category of cross-linked coatings featuring a proprietary combination of low-VOC resins that cure fast and hard, thus eliminating the need for baking or force-drying of metal parts.
Scientists at the University of Rochester have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic, materials without the need for temporary coatings.
