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Use of Aluminium Grows As Surfaces Get Harder
01 Sep 2003
The limiting factor in the use of aluminium has always been the soft surface and tendency to wear. Abbey Metal Finishing (Amfin) of Nuneaton believes that they have found the solution in their recent installation of a Keronite surface treatment facility.
Re-Conditioned Worn Parts are Better Than New
01 Sep 2003
Metallic Protective Plating, Warwick, is currently trialling the use of their own version of functional chrome - Metallichrom, to repair machines that manufacture ink-jet cartridges for a leading computer company.components can be costly to manufacture or replace. By using Metallichrom to salvage worn or over-machined precision parts, sometimes a better than new condition is attained.
Giant Dip Tank Offers best Protective Process for Ferrous Components
01 Sep 2003
Recent autophoretic (AP) coating work for Trelleborg has utilised the giant dip tank at ABT Products, based in Ross-on-Wye, which, when the plant was installed three years ago, had the largest product envelop of any facility in Europe, allowing ABT to pre-treat large fabrications within its 3.2m x 2m x 2m frame.
Six Month Trials Lead to Full Production for New Zinc Phosphating Plant
01 Sep 2003
After six months of trials, an experimental, purpose-built zinc phosphating plant at New Phoenix Engineering, in Rochester, has succeeded in producing batches of the high quality finish, with a very precise, tight molecular structure, required by a large blue chip automotive company.
