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2006--

June 26: Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (US) required registration by Ken Vlach

January 6: "Video Club" meetings for AESF Branches

 

2006--

September 22: Industry Consolidation Received Final Approval at Sur/Fin

September 12: AESF For The Future

August 10: It's time for a Scholastic Visits Program

August 10: Report from Southern Metal Finishing Conference

July 27: The Future of Surface Finishing and the AESF

July 23: Your Erronenous Zones

July 19: Blessed Are The Peacemakers

July 1: Powder Coating 2006 vs. Sur/Fin: Who's Minding the Store?

Jun. 23: Galvanizing Industry in Denial?

Jun. 8: Notes from the Washington, DC AESF Delegates Meeting by Paul Fisher

Mar. 22: Outsourcing to China by ensemble

 

2005--

Nov. 22: Metal Finishing November 2005 magazine review by Todd Osmolski

Sep. 29: Didn't your mother teach you manners? by Peter Van de Luecht

Aug. 18: Don't throw away 2004 Metal Finishing Guidebook by Robert Teichmann

May 5: Risky Business or Knocking Nails With a Wrench? by Martin Trigg-Hogarth

May 4: Where is the USA Freedom? by Aly Gomaa

 

2004--

Sept. 16: The Question of Source Evaluation

June 28: The Times They Aren't A Changin' by Matthew Jones

 

2003--

Oct. 16: Annoyed at foreign questions! by Anonymous (dozens of replies)

Apr. 18: Report on SAE Aerospace Metals Division Committee B meeting by Lee Gearhart

Mar. 10: What are they doing with all of it??? by Beverle G. Sweitzer

Feb. 11: Ask not what your Country can do for you by Frank Zemo

 

2002--

Oct. 13: May we Supersize that Salad, Sir?

Aug. 5: Lean Manufacturing for Lower Costs by Bob Utech

July 29: In Defense of In Defense of Chemistry by Tom Linehan, Alan Phillipson

 

2001--

Dec. 18: Biting my tonque

Aug. 2: Who are the extremists?

May 10: Just a Question by Marc Green

 

2000--

Sept. 29: Chrome, Cadmium, And Nickel Replacement Information Exchange by Jim Treglio

July 3: Things You See on Their Face

April 18: Wake Up and Smell the Chromate
March 17: To All Small Platers Out There by Scott Fetter

March 8: The 2nd Law of MoronDynamics

 

1999--

Sept. 1: Cobwebs Away! by Tom Pullizzi
August 16: Say Goodnight, Chrome by Ted Mooney, reply by Tom Pullizzi
August 9: Questions by Drew Nosti

July 15: Big IS Bad

May 27: OSHA Ergonomic Standards

May 23: No Loyalty Oaths by Ted Mooney, reply by Drew Nosti

April 29: Environmental Hypocrisy

1998--

December 8: Vote If We're Pompous and Self-Important
November 25: Sorry, But It's Offensive
October 13: The environment's deadliest enemy--Town Hall?
October 6: Get Lost, Low-life

September 1: Mapping the human genome, and other quick projects you can toss together in your spare time by Tom Pullizzi

July 7: Beating a Dead Horse
June 26: I Plate Cad and I Love the EPA by Tom Pullizzi

May 25: Trust No One?
May 8: Potentially Lethal Vapors
Apr. 22: Making Nickel Safe Again, but for Whom by Tom Pullizzi
Mar. 18: AESF Research by Ken Lemke
Mar. 14: Shamed by New Jersey
Mar. 7: My Turn to Be the D.D.
Mar. 5: The Damned Lobbyists Again

Feb. 25: To Pray Is To Work by Tom Pullizzi
Feb. 21: Enough is Enough
Jan. 27: Ford F-150: Cool!
Jan. 3: Let's Hear It for the Girls

1997 --

Dec. 23: Turning a Horse Chestnut into a Chestnut Horse by Tom Pullizzi
Dec. 8: Quality--Are You Kidding Me?
Dec. 5: Pollution Prevention Make-work
Dec. 4: Global Warming
Dec. 3: The Plating Meme
Dec. 2: Good News on Hex Chrome
Dec. 1: Repeat of a Sellout

Nov. 28: Dirty Little Secrets
Nov. 26: First Thing We Do Is
Nov. 25: This Vehicle is Uncertified
Nov. 24: You and I are 'the experts'