Media filtration removes hex chrome dust, fumes: but system doesn't work for plating operations.(TECH NOTES)

From: Products Finishing | Date: December 1, 2006 | Copyright information

Many metal finishers perform welding and other secondary operations on parts they process. Welding of stainless steel parts produces hex chrome fumes, resulting in yet another potential headache for finishers already worried about their chrome plating operations.

But fumes and dust from welding, plasma cutting, and other operations can be handled relatively easily compared with airborne hex chrome from plating operations, according to one company.

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