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Metal Finishing November 2005
magazine review

Todd Osmolski

Charlotte NC USA

Cover: Waste outfall into a creek with foam running a 1/4 mile
down stream.My vote for the cover would have been for a clean stream
with brook trout and children swimming. That picture is a negative
representation of the finishing industry.

Table of contents: I see that photo on the cover is not of an
outfall from a finishing shop but a random AP photo. Metal Finishing
magazine has seen fit to put some other industries waste on its
cover.

Editorial Page: Consolidation of AESF, NAMF, MFSA. The editor says
its good for me.

Page 4: Letters to the editor. A letter about consolidation and
how the AESF NAMF and MFSA spent the toughest time in the history of
the finishing industry busy fighting each other.

Page 5: News and Briefs. B.J. Mason testifies before a government
committee on behalf of three industry trade associations. That’s the
stuff I like to hear!

Bad news on the bottom of page 5. A plating shop goes out of
business and NAMF has to find a new president because of the plant
closing.

Page 6: More news briefs. Chrome replacement press release uses
the words carcinogenic, toxic and cancer in relation to chrome six
times in the press release. Does Metal Finishing Magazine not care
what people put into the press releases they reprint?

Page 8/9/10/11/12: More AESF/NAMF/MFSA stuff!?

The last 52 pages of the magazine are pretty good though.

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