The Factors that Affect Color Match
End use customers tend to have a notion in their minds that any color can be matched when anodizing aluminum. It may be possible but there are many factors that[...]
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Is a Lighter Color Aluminum Hard Coat Thinner than a Darker One?
I have been asked this question often: “Is it always the case that a lighter color hard coat is less thick than a darker one?” While[...]
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The Impact of Foreign Materials on Aluminum Parts before Anodizing
Although simple in principle, there is a lot of confusion over how aluminum parts need to arrive at the metal finisher so that[...]
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Why We Need to Know About the Alloy and Its Temper When Anodizing Aluminum
With over 30 commonly available aluminum alloys, and a multitude of tempers for each alloy, this question frequently arises:[...]
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