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Lacey Reames · May 19, 2021
There is a myriad of surface coating solutions on the market that solve many different problems. Hard chrome plating and thermal spray are just two, of many, that are available to industrial manufacturers to resist wear and corrosion damage. For years thermal spray has struggled…
ReadLacey Reames · Mar 29, 2021
Hard Chrome Plating has been around in some form since the early 1800’s. It’s popular in many industrial and automotive applications and has been a great surface coating solution for many years. Unfortunately increasing costs, due to environmental regulations, have many people…
ReadLacey Reames · Jan 25, 2021
In recent years the internet has greatly changed the buying process, certainly in the business to consumer market but also in the business-to-business market. You may not even realize that your buying habits have changed. With the answers to most of your questions just an…
ReadLacey Reames · Nov 23, 2020
In the world of surface coating, there are many options available to extend the life of parts and most of them are very similar in one way or another. While thermal spray has been around for a long time, cold spray is relatively new on the scene having been developed sometime in…
ReadLacey Reames · Oct 27, 2020
A lot can happen in five years and a lot has happened at HTS Coatings. Five years ago, this month, HTS Coatings opened its doors as HB Coatings. Not only did our name change but many other things as well. We sat down with Jason and Ashley Hunsaker and asked them to reflect on…
ReadLacey Reames · Sep 29, 2020
A Comparison of Laser Cladding versus PTA, TIG, and MIG Weld Overlays While you won’t find "hardfacing" in the dictionary, it’s an industry standard word that anyone looking to repair and remanufacture their machine parts would benefit to know. Hardfacing is any metalworking…
ReadLacey Reames · Aug 18, 2020
How to Know Which Hardfacing Method is Best for You? We live in the information age; you can find the answer to almost any question in minutes. Doing a simple internet search for “machine part repair” or “remanufacture” will result in thousands of ways and processes to rebuild…
ReadLacey Reames · Aug 5, 2020
Long have we considered what we do a noble addition to the manufacturing industry. One that helps our customers reduce waste and keep their parts in production longer. It wasn’t until recently that we realized that we were contributing to something larger than ourselves; that…
ReadLacey Reames · Jul 22, 2020
Friction. The resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another. We live everyday experiencing varying degrees and scenarios of friction. The scrape of pushing a chair back to stand up, the scratch of sandpaper on wood, the wear of a print roll shaft as…
ReadLacey Reames · Jun 26, 2020
The United States is the largest remanufacturer in the world. From 2009-2011 remanufacturing supported 180,000 full time jobs and was a $43 billion industry in the U.S. [1] The remanufacturing industry can pertain to anything from office furniture to heavy-duty equipment and is…
ReadLacey Reames · May 26, 2020
I grew up in rural Missouri and can remember sanding wood in my required junior high shop class. It was always by hand and you had all these different grits to choose from. The smaller the number, the more abrasive it was and as a junior high student it was hard to keep it all…
ReadLacey Reames · Apr 21, 2020
In the 2000 film Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts plays the title character legal clerk turned environmental activist. The events depicted in the movie are based upon the environmental concerns in Hinkley, California. The investigation looked into the contamination of groundwater…
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