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News Release from: Tecan
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 14 January 2008
Metalworkers excel in coursework
James Hope, John-Paul Latham and Joe Phebyh achieved distinctions in the Metal Finishing and Surface Coating course.
Three members of staff at Weymouth-based Tecan have received high praise from the Institute of Metal Finishing (IMF) James Hope, John-Paul Latham and Joe Pheby have each achieved 'distinctions' from their recently completed IMF foundation training course: Metal Finishing and Surface Coating
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 12 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The four-month course involved studying a wide range of course modules both at work and at home.
The three now plan to take on the next level IMF training scheme which will take them to Technician level, allowing them to put the letters TechIMF after their names.
Seamus Bourke, Tecan's Metal Finishing Division Manager said: "James, John and Joe have shown a great deal of commitment and dedication to achieve these results".
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"We are indeed proud of them and hope to see their success continue to the next level and beyond".
"They have inspired others at the facility who will now be following their footsteps".
"These levels of achievement are globally recognised and as such are crucial in the standing of this company in the professional engineering community - offering the best is one thing - it is entirely another to assure proven capabilities to recognised standards".
The company has developed a dedicated high-quality metal finishing facility at its 6000m2 Weymouth base.
This purpose-built facility offers a wide range of standard and bespoke finishes.
It provides a fast-turnaround, sub-contract resource and in recent years has developed proprietary new techniques.
One example is TECfin Anti Friction, a range of high-performance PTFE-impregnated finishes designed to alleviate the abrasion and galling caused by day to day metal-to-metal contact.
The company has also developed TECfin Connect, a range of gold-based finishes designed to provide optimum durability, reliability and/or solderability, dependent on the application.
The finishes have been exclusively developed to change surface properties for specific electronics applications from consumer electronics products to aerospace, medical and military needs.
In-house laboratory facilities are used extensively for process analysis, quality assurance and control.
Prior to processing, atomic absorption spectrometry is used to analyse all metal solution samples.
Post-processing, nondestructive X-Ray fluorescence testing is used to ensure surface finish thickness meets with specifications.
Salt-spray testing can be used to perform accelerated corrosion tests to ensure long-term performance requirements are met.
Micro-hardness testing is a further tool in the QA portfolio.
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