- Environmental best practice
programme.
This year sees the publication in the UK of several guides promoting good practice in the use of industrial solvents particularly in the field of coatings application. The Environmental Technology Best Practice Programme (ETBPP) is publishing the guides. The ETBPP is a joint UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) ......
- Productivity levels in British and German
manufacturing industry.
Relative levels of labour productivity are estimated to have been about 22 per cent higher in German than in British manufacturing in 1987. The German productivity advantage was most pronounced in non-electrical engineering, vehicles and metals. The British performance was relatively better in food, drink and tobacco and textiles and ......
- Cutting-edge approaches to coating wood. (Powder
Coating).
Powder coating has been used with great success in the metal finishing industry for decades. But when manufacturers first began to powder coat wood, they ran into challenges. The heat required for the powder coating process damaged the wood, and the non-uniform density of the wood products resulted in finishes ......
- Cutting-edge approaches to coating wood: the
development of powder coating on natural wood and heat-resistant
coatings has taken several big steps forward.
Powder coating has been used with great success in the metal finishing industry for decades. But when manufacturers first began to powder coat wood, they ran into challenges. The heat required for the powder coating process sometimes damaged the wood, and the non-uniform density of the wood products resulted in ......
- Conferences complement shows. (Metals Engineering
2001).
Running concurrently with the Metals Engineering 2001 exhibitions is a series of related conferences and seminars. At the time of writing, topics covered include casting, aluminium, stainless steel, heat treatment, finishing and refractories. On Monday 8 October, Wolfson Heat Treatment will hold a conference highlighting advances in heat treatment technology ......
- Coatings and VOCs: how the UK industry is
responding.
The VOCs issue is arguably the most fundamental single challenge the coatings industry has faced in recent years. Here, Moira McMillan explains the response of the UK coatings industry to the environmental challenge of controlling atmospheric VOC emissions and the VOC content of products. Initial work on the VOC issue ......
- Four Quality Metal Finishing Guides
released.
The Metal Finishing Suppliers' Association announces the release of four new Quality Metal Finishing Guides: * Decorative Copper/ Nickel/Chromium and Substitutes * Functional Chromium Plating (Hard Chrome) * Decorative Precious Metal Plating * Electroless Nickel These publications and others in the QMF Guide series are the direct result of a ......