Water Innovations puts high value on continued education as practiced by our own Vice President, Steven Ward. Steven has completed the AESF Foundation’s Airline & Aerospace Finishing Parts 1 & 2, providing further expertise to our team.
This course provided a broad range of information related to metal finishing operations that are commonly conducted in the Airline/Aerospace industry on the specific topics below:
- Electroplating
- Corrosion of Metals
- Hydrogen Embrittlement
- Metals & Alloys Utilized in Aerospace
- Chemical Surface Preparation of Substrates for Plating Substrates
- Mechanical Surface Preparation – mechanical means of preparing parts for surface finishing.
- Masking Techniques – covers methods employed for selective plating.
- Quality Conformance Testing – covers the more commonly conducted QA/QC tests utilized in aerospace.
- Plating Solution Maintenance
- Chem Film
- Zinc and Manganese Phosphating
- LHE Zinc-Nickel Alloy Plating
- Cadmium Ti-Cad and Nickel-Cad Diffused Coatings
- Copper & Silver Plating
- Sulfamate & Nickel Strike Plating
- Hard Chromium Plating
- Anodizing Aluminum
- Electroless Nickel Deposition
- Brush Plating
- Stripping
- Thermal Spray & PVD
Steven Ward, VP of Water Innovations, will be presenting at the SUR/FIN Conference in Cleveland, OH on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. This presentation will focus on how finishing facilities are faced with increasing water scarcity & cost and stringent quality requirements. Water recycling to produce deionized (DI) water is a means to ensure a reliable supply of high-quality water that lowers operating costs & improves product quality. Established technologies include ion exchange (IX) & reverse osmosis (RO) to closed-loop recycle process rinses and RO & multimedia filtration for end-of-pipe. Proper technology selection and successful implementation require an understanding of which rinsewaters are suitable to recycle, evaluation of relative costs & advantages/disadvantages, and knowledge of associated operational & regulatory requirements, which will be addressed to provide the audience a basic understanding to make an informed decision.
