NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER HOSTS SPRING SEMINAR
NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER HOSTS VIRTUAL SEMINAR
The New England Chapter of NASF hosted a virtual seminar for the benefit of their membership as well as the entire non-NENASF metal finishing community. The event was held on Thursday March 17, 2022. The Executive Board opted to offer this event free of charge to all NENASF members, and at a modest fee to the rest of the metal finishing community, in hopes that it would not only educate but, to whatever extent possible, bond those associated with the metal finishing community.
The event was a two-hour Continuing Education Conference offering continuing education contact hours towards Wastewater license renewal. It was conducted by means of Zoom format and attracted about thirty attendees. It consisted of three presentations over the two-hour duration from 10:00 to noon offering a user-friendly format for all attendees.
Matt Kreiner of Hitachi XRF opened the Webinar with a presentation on the variety of uses and applications self-adjusting XRF units can have in saving time and money in daily coating thickness applications. He also addressed how XRF can be used to optimize solution maintenance and measure impurities in waste water discharge. This was followed by a presentation by Enrique Valentin of American Plating Power on the variety of rectifier options available to the metal finishing community, and how the correct choice can not only save money by lessening rejects, but also help reduce processing water used to reprocess defective parts.
The webinar was concluded with a presentation by Rob Sheldon of Aquas Group who spoke on the various options available through membrane technology as a substantial tool to be used in environmental regulation compliance. He also showed how this technology can be used as a path to rinse water recycling.
Special thanks to Chris Capalbo for technical support and for acting as moderator, and to Dev Massimi as Event Chair in arranging for the event speakers.
Thanks to the combined efforts of NASF Board Members, Committee Members, Chapter Membership and dedicated and talented members of the Metal Finishing Community as a whole for making events such as this available for the benefit of our membership.
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