Will you be attending the West Pack tradeshow in Anaheim this year? Stop by General Magnaplate’s booth #5229 to discuss your application with our technical sales team. You can also pick up your free friction CD!
Westpack, February 14-16, 2012, Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
Our technical team is now available online with valuable information on how to solve your coating applications. Just visit our website www.magnaplate.com and look for the live chat icon.
General Magnaplate Texas has extended its Nedox® capacity through the investment in new, larger stainless steel and polypropylene tanks which can handle parts up to 20 feet in length. In addition to the new large tanks, the facility has also purchased a new crane with a capacity of up to 8000 pounds – one of the largest in North Texas.
John Larsen, General Manager of our Texas plant, explained “With this new investment we now have the capacity to coat larger parts, such as the 15 foot long rotors that are used in the oil and gas industry for moving materials down-hole. In addition, we also have the ability to handle higher volume orders with much faster turnaround times, which will further improve our service to customers.”
Larry Campbell, Vice President of Materials Engineering, and technical sales representative in Missouri, recently returned from a two week land and sea vacation in Alaska. Larry started traveling in 1955, first with his parents, and then later with his wife and two children. They would often visit several states in one trip, getting closer to his goal of all 50 states in his lifetime.
This past June, his goal was realized with a trip to Alaska, including a seven day tour by car of coastal towns and a nat
ional park (their 34th!), then seven days at sea on a cruise ship. Larry reports he took over a thousand pictures during their vacation, including the majestic eagle you see here.
General Magnaplate is proud to announce that its New Jersey facility has achieved Nadcap accreditation. Nadcap is the leading worldwide cooperative program of major companies designed to manage a cost-effective consensus approach to special processes and products and provide continual improvement within the aerospace and automotive industries.
Candida Aversenti, CEO, says “We are proud to have achieved Nadcap accreditation. General Magnaplate has always been a leader in the aerospace industry, partnering with many of the OEMs and suppliers responsible for the United States’ proud history of space exploration. Nadcap’s mission to add value, reduce total cost, and build stronger relationships between vendors and customers matches our own corporate philosophy here at General Magnaplate.”
General Magnaplate is pleased to announce we’ve made two additions to our LECTROFLUOR® series of coatings – LECTROFLUOR 605 and 609. These new coatings have been developed to withstand harsh cleaning agents and will lower expenditure by reducing downtime for part replacement.
The LECTROFLUOR series of high-technology, polymer-based surface enhancement coatings provides superior resistance to metal parts and equipment subjected to corrosion (environmental and chemical) as well as erosive and abrasive wear (especially from slurries). Coatings in this series also exhibit excellent release characteristics, and many comply with codes for food and pharmaceutical contact.
Developed primarily for the food industry, blue LECTROFLUOR 605 is USDA/FDA compliant and CFIA approved and will provide non-stick properties to almost any metal. LECTROFLUOR 609 offers similar properties, but will add a pewter color to the new substrate, a preference for some plant operators.
General Magnaplate accepts both VISA and Mastercard! Customers can pay with a credit card to ease cash flow, or to simply rack up some more air miles. We also gladly accept electronic banking transfers. Call us today for instructions on how to pay your invoice by electronic transfer, VISA or Mastercard.
Our licensee for TUFRAM®, NEDOX®, HI-T-LUBE® and LECTROFLUOR® in the Netherlands, AHC Benelux B.V. , is now our official licensee for Germany. AHC Benelux has coatings facilities in Eindhoven and Venlo, and is part of the Material Technology Group of Aalberts Industries.
AHC Benelux has developed its reputation by combining an expertise in heat treatment and metal finishing, which, when coupled with General Magnaplate’s proprietary processes, covers all aspects of surface enhancement technology.
Community is alive and well in Linden, NJ, if the events for Earth Day at General Magnaplate and Magnalube were anything to go by. This year, the two industrial companies opened a newly built raised bed garden so all employees will be able to share in the harvest this summer and fall. What is truly unique about this endeavor is that a local farm will be providing the seedlings (and expertise) while an employee will be donating the compost from her compost garden at home.
For over 40 years, Earth Day—April 22—has inspired and mobilized individuals and organizations worldwide to demonstrate their commitment to environmental protection and sustainability.
Candi Aversenti, CEO of General Magnaplate, and Luke Saunders, President of Magnalube, purchased materials for the beds and some soil. The seedlings came from Ralston Farm – a Mendham farm run by Bennett Haynes who is starting off his first season farming independently, and runs a local CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) for residents to buy local, seasonal food directly from a farmer.
“We’ve always celebrated Earth Day and placed a great emphasis on recycling and the environment, but this year is something truly special,” reports Candi Aversenti, CEO of General Magnaplate. “The collaboration of industrial companies, a local farmer and an employee who is donating her own compost, shows that there is a real sense of community and a real passion for caring about the environment.”
“All of our employees were involved and we all enjoyed raking, digging and sowing seeds in the sunshine with some expert direction from Bennett Haynes. And this isn’t just for the benefit of the environment, all of those employees involved in helping out will literally be able to reap the fruits of the labor come harvest time.”
Luke Saunders, President of Magnalube, added, “We are proud to play such an active role in this event and as a small thank you to Bennett we even lubed his tractor with one of our industrial lubricant products!”
Both General Magnaplate’s coatings and Magnalube’s lubricants extend the life of metal parts and reduce friction, which reduces scrap and the reliance on scare resources, while lowering energy consumption.
Reinforcing its position as a global provider of engineered coatings, General Magnaplate Corporation has appointed Electrochem as its licensee for India. Under the terms of the agreement, Electrochem will offer General Magnaplate’s Nedox® family of coatings to its customers, with the potential to add further coatings in the future.
Nedox protects most metals, including aluminum, against wear, friction, corrosion, sticking and galling. It improves parts made of less durable and/or less costly metals by adding physical properties that permit them to outperform and outwear even chrome and stainless steel. A 0.001″ coating shows little or no corrosion after 14 months of continuous exposure to atmosphere and salt water, and some of the Nedox coatings are especially resistant to phosphate-free bleach used in washdown solutions in food processing and packaging operations.
“We will be one of the first operations to offer polymer coatings in India,” commented Shrikant Bhave, Owner of Electrochem. “India is still a relatively immature marketplace and we look forward to applying Nedox coatings to parts in the packaging, pharmaceutical, medical, and oil and gas industries. FDA compliance is a big plus and the new license will enable us to educate Indian manufacturers about the cutting edge that these types of coatings can provide.”
Edmund Aversenti, COO of General Magnaplate, added, “We are proud to extend our global reach to the thriving Indian manufacturing marketplace. We have been very impressed by Electrochem’s operation and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship that will ultimately make Indian OEMs more competitive by delivering higher performance parts.”
Magnaplate Extends Reach to India
