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Batch versus conveyor: Which oven is best?
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It's time to look for a new oven when you have bottlenecks in your production line or you're ready to start a new product line. Should the oven be batch or automated conveyor? This article discusses nine issues you need to consider before you decide.
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Nick's Niche: Maintenance--now more than ever!
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As I write this, I am reflecting that a year has gone by since the biggest economic recession since 1929 started. The pundits have not dubbed this downturn a "Depression" as they did in 1929, but it sure seems pretty
"Great" to many people. It certainly is the scariest thing my generation has ever seen.
Ohio coater meets a 48-hour deadline to apply multiple colors on a large Manhattan art installation
Earlier this year, when Joe Cochran got a call from Dover Tank and Plate, Dover, Ohio, about a fabricated art installation that needed to be powder-coated, he said he thought, "yeah, yeah, yeah, what could be so bad about that?" But Cochran, vice president of the Powder Division at Akron-based Thomarios, was about to be challenged--in a big way.
Fighting impact fusion -- a producer's take
When searching impact fusion on the Internet recently, we found hundreds of references and questions on the topic of impact fusion. That means that impact fusion is a real problem facing powder coaters, the powder coatings producers, as well as the application equipment manufacturers. Although this article doesn’t claim to be an exhaustive study on the subject, we discuss factors that we have found, in our experience, to be particularly important. We discuss what conditions are likely to cause impact fusion and what powder coatings producers and applicators can do to prevent it.
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