Keshav Kumar is owner of Plateronics Processing in Chatsworth, California, which offers anodizing, chem film passivation, electroless nickel, and various other plating substrates, including gold, silver, tin, and zinc.Kumar purchased the...

Alex Budd was offered a job in metal finishing while completing his MBA six years ago, and he realized it might be his calling.“I had always been interested in industries that are under the radar that you just don't think about,” says Bu...

We talk with Elite Metal Finishing's Steve Allen about his challenge of getting the Oceanside, California, shop to attain Nadcap accreditation in chemical processing. In the finishing industry, this effort is not for the faint of heart, especia...

We talked with Joe Zabielski from Ronatec about the new Paladin high-phos electroless nickel chemistry, which the company says offers outstanding corrosion protection and hardness.Zabielski says Paladin has passed salt spray tests up to ...

We chatted with Dan Zinman from Miles Chemical on various topics about surface finishing.One topic is product availability that seems to be a big concern for many finishers, as well as just-in-time delivery, removing material from their ...