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How Aerospace Coatings Are Redefining Aircraft Performance (opens the original)
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Welcome to the October 2026 issue of Products Finishing. Each October issue we place an emphasis on the aerospace market. This is because every gain the aerospace industry has made over the last few decades — hotter-running, more fuel-efficient engines, lighter airframes, longer intervals between maintenance events and better safety margins — have been intertwined with advances in surface engineering. Thermal barrier coatings enable turbine sections to run closer to the melting point of their ba
Legacy, Quality and Relationships Power Top Shop Success for MPP Group (opens the original)
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MPP Group’s Corsicana, Texas, plant is dedicated to architectural aluminum anodizing. Source | MPP Group For 2026, Products Finishing’s Top Shops Benchmarking Program produced a rare tie for first place in the Plating & Anodizing category, with MPP Group (Corsicana, Texas and Du Quoin, Illinois) sharing top honors alongside Advanced Metal Finishing of Va. Inc. For MPP Group, a family-owned finisher that runs an architectural anodizing plant in Corsicana, Texas, and a zinc plating operation in Du
Legacy, Quality and Relationships Power Top Shop Success for MPP Group (opens the original)
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MPP Group’s Corsicana, Texas, plant is dedicated to architectural aluminum anodizing. Source | MPP Group For 2026, Products Finishing’s Top Shops Benchmarking Program produced a rare tie for first place in the Plating & Anodizing category, with MPP Group (Corsicana, Texas and Du Quoin, Illinois) sharing top honors alongside Advanced Metal Finishing of Va. Inc. For MPP Group, a family-owned finisher that runs an architectural anodizing plant in Corsicana, Texas, and a zinc plating operation in Du
Episode 71: An Interview With Connor Callais, Hubbard-Hall (opens the original)
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Connor Callais, product manager, Hubbard-Hall. Source | Hubbard-Hall In the latest installment of Products Finishing’s (PF) On the Line, we caught up with Connor Callais, product manager at Hubbard-Hall (Waterbury, Connecticut), to talk about the fundamentals that finishers most often get wrong in parts cleaning and pretreatment, best practices for bath chemistry maintenance and regulatory trends shaping the industry. Callais, a member of PF’s 40 Under 40 Class of 2023 and a regular contributor
Boosting Finishing Line Efficiency Through Smarter Racking (opens the original)
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Q: What advice do you have for using racking to improve finishing line efficiency? A: Whether you are powder coating, ecoating, electroplating or anodizing, efficiency in a finishing system comes down to how well it supports throughput and quality. Your racking design is a large determining factor in how efficiently your line runs. A well-designed racking system should hold the maximum number of parts, include proper part spacing, have a quick load/unload design, offer consistent grounding with
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