The authoritative public forum
  for Metal Finishing 1989-2025
  

ABOUT THIS SITE

Finishing.com is the home page of the finishing industry ® -- a place for anyone interested in metal finishing / surface finish arts to get info, enjoy the camaraderie, have some fun, and maybe secure some business.

We try to make finishing.com not just a helpful site -- but friendly and fun! No profanity, ad-hominems, or spam, and never ever a pop-up, 'sticky' ad, or similar maddening nonsense.

While the advertisers listed in our on-line directories offer metal finishing services, supplies, and consulting, operating this informational website is our only business.

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 'HOTLINE Public Q&A Forum' where people from around the world discuss technical issues while having a little fun.

We also feature a technical library and FAQs about metal finishing.

On the commercial side, RFQs present business opportunities, and our Worldlink Directory Listings locate jobshops who can perform every type of finishing service, consultants, training services & software, plus chemicals & consumables and equipment for finishing shops. Our award-winning help wanted page is solely for positions in metal finishing.

Affiliation

Like the media of the old days, Finishing.com, Inc. is an independently owned small business. We've never sought nor accepted grants or association stipends. Supporting advertisers who order a Worldlink listing, plus commissions we earn from Amazon & other on-line vendors, make the site possible.

History ... and Preserving It

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 May of 1995, Ted Mooney & Tom Pullizzi incorporated finishing.com as the first WWW service for the finishing industry. After guiding the site through its formative years, Tom moved on to become a high school science teacher. Bob Dylan & George Harrison said it best, Tom: If not for you, I wouldn't have even found the door.

In 2003, the American Electroplaters & Surface Finishers Society honored Ted with its Industrial Achievement award for the establishment of www.finishing.com.

We work to preserve the seminal idea of open sharing of knowledge that launched the web: no registration, no 'premium content', no spam to your e-mail -- you can still freely 'surf' just like the early days, and 99+% of the content that was ever on line here still is ... we fight relentlessly against broken links.

Contact Information

Ted Mooney, P.E. <mooney@finishing.com> is president of finishing.com.

Our address is:

  Finishing.com, Inc.

  523 Springfield Ave.,

  Pine Beach, NJ 08741

This site is possible thanks to our advertisers, including consultants who earn their living by offering private metal finishing expertise; in return for their support we have agreed to not respond to questions in private.   Apologies, but if you want free guidance of any sort at all, 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 believe in the same ideas as we, and are interested in a directory listing, banner ads, etc., please see "Your ads here" or phone 908-910-7464 (we are located in the Eastern time zone of the U.S.A. with office hours of 9:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.)