finishingcom

The home page of the finishing industry ®

Finishing.com is the home page of the finishing industry ® -- a place for people with an interest in metal finishing & the allied surface finishing arts to get information, secure business, have some fun, and enjoy the camaraderie of their peers from around the world.

Finishing.com is ONLY a website! The advertisers listed in our on-line directories offer metal finishing services, supplies, and consulting, but we ourselves provide no services except this informational website.

Contents of the site

Our home page is a site map / table of contents of the site. Our most popular area is a very active 'Public Q&A Forum' page where your peers from around the world meet to discuss technical issues, and have a little fun. We also have the most comprehensive calendar of events for the finishing industry, which includes audio interviews with conference organizers, a technical library, FAQs about metal finishing, news & editorials, contact info for metal finishing societies, and helpful links to kindred websites.

 

On the commercial side, our 'I Need a Finishing Service' and 'I Need Something for a Finishing Shop' RFQ pages present business opportunities. Our Worldlink Directories locate consultants, training services & software; environmental services & supplies; testing services & test equipment; and other chemicals & equipment for finishing shops, as well as jobshops who can perform every type of finishing service for you. Our help wanted page is solely for positions in the metal finishing industry, and is award winning.

 

Affiliation

Like the media of the old days, Finishing.com, Inc. is an independently owned & operated small business. We do not accept government grants nor association stipends. Our supporting advertisers who order a Worldlink listing, plus commissions we earn from Amazon & other on-line vendors, make the site possible.

 

History

Finishing.com has been continuously on line since February 1989, starting as a dial-up BBS. Extracts from our Hotline-Letters page were printed monthly in Metal Finishing magazine (an Elsevier Science publication) as the "Heard On the Hotline" column for over 10 years. In April of 1995, finishing.com became the first WWW service for the finishing industry. In 2003, the American Electroplaters & Surface Finishers Society honored Ted Mooney with its prestigious Frank E. Lane Industrial Achievement award for the establishment of www.finishing.com.

Contact Information

Ted Mooney, P.E. <mooney@finishing.com> is president of finishing.com and Kate Minor <minor@finishing.com> is our webmaster & administrative assistant. We owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude to Tom Pullizzi, co-founder of finishing.com, who has moved on to become a high school biology teacher.

 

Our address is:

  Finishing.com, Inc.

  503 Brick Blvd. Suite 106

  Brick, NJ 08723

Sorry, sorry, sorry! Apologies, but please understand that we cannot offer ANY private help whatsoever on finishing questions!   This site is possible only because of our advertisers, including consultants who earn their living offering metal finishing expertise; in return for the support of our advertisers we have agreed that we will not respond to any finishing questions in private.  If you want free guidance, it must be in PUBLIC via posting a question in the forum.   If you need private, confidential help, please see our Consultants listings. Sorry!

If you are interested in web presence here (directory listing, banner ads, home pages) our fax number is 732/477-1974. Our phone number is 732/477-1447. We are located in the Eastern time zone of the U.S.A. with office hours of 9:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.