Electrochemicals Blog – EPI – Electrochemical Products Inc.

June 11th, 2009

By Eric Olander

Next June 15-17th the 2009 version of Sur/Fin will be held in Louisville, KY.  EPi is ready to meet new potential customers and loyal existing  customers from all over the world. These economic challenging times present opportunities to reinvent our selves by going to a different type of metal finishing process. Sur/Fin is the place to learn how you can reinvent you finishes and your company. The technical program has over 70 papers this year. We will see you at Sur/Fin! I also get to help cut the ribbon on opening day. I hope the scissors is sharp!

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March 17th, 2009

By Eric Olander

I just got back from China. I worked with John of EPi who is living in Guangzhuo, China  our Asian Market Manager. During my last visit we went and called on EPI customers and potential new clients. The picture enclosed is me with Ms. Lu left side of picture and Ms Du the President of our Chinese distribution company. Ms Du has had much success selling Ultra Blak 407 black oxide for stainless steel, B/Ox antiquing processes, and E-Teccorrosion inhibitors. Ms. Du business is located in Foshan, China and she is looking forward to moving to a larger facility  by June. I did find business slowing down in China as well. The planes were not as full either as the flight attendant stated that US travel to Asia is down.

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February 10th, 2009

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By Eric Olander

Linden Black of Phoenix Electroform Products challenged us for blackening nickel. We did not have an answer for him so we provided a sample for him to conduct blackening tests on his nickel substrate. Lindy like was he saw visually and now he had to test it with a spectrophotometer to confirm his visual results. He found a value of 0.73-0.75 using the spectrophotometer. Attached is his graph that  he developed and placed into the pdf above. Click on the pdf to view graph! To learn more about Ultra Blak 465 click on the underlined area.  If you review the previous blogs last April we also used Ultra Blak 465 to blacken Kovar!

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