At Metal Finishing Magazine, we use the web constantly to check facts, investigate new products, and stay on top of industry news. Our browser bookmarks file is huge, but we've selected just a few of the sites that we find most useful. Some of the most useful are listed here.

In addition to the links on this page, you can always click on "Meet Our Advertisers" in the main menu to be linked instantly to any of the web sites of our advertisers.

Links to sites of Metal Finishing magazine's contributors:

Ron Joseph & Associates
Web-based home of Metal Finishing magazine's Organic Coatings Editor. Site is filled with information on all aspects of organic coating, including an archive of Ron’s popular “Ask the Expert” questions and answers. Also includes one of the most comprehensive lists of industry links to be found anywhere.

Website: www.ronjoseph.com/

precisioncleaning.com
Home page for Metal Finishing’s cleaning guru, John Durkee, author of our monthly “Cleaning Times” column. Subtitled as the place “where technology is applied to precision cleaning,” this website features services and publications available from one of the world’s renowned industrial cleaning experts. In addition, this website contains an extensive collection of links to regulatory, technological, industrial, and supply information.

Website: www.precisioncleaning.com

SpecialChem4Adhesives.com
A platform developed specifically for the needs of the adhesives and sealants industry. The site promotes itself as a “one-stop shop” for technical knowledge and expert assistance with adhesive and sealant product development and manufacturing concerns. The website also features dozens of online editorials from Metal Finishing’s own adhesives and bonding expert, Edward Petrie, in addition to technical articles, industry news, expert opinions, guides, and much more.

Website: www.specialchem4adhesives.com

Finishing.com
Describes itself as "the homepage of the finishing industry" and has a huge archive of over 24,000 questions and answers gathered over many years by long-time Metal Finishing columnist Ted Mooney. Loaded with other information resources as well as including a unique collection of book reviews.

Website: www.finishing.com/

The most important metal finishing trade associations:

National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF)
The National Association for Surface Finishing (NASF) is a 501 (c)(6) trade association whose mission is to promote the advancement of the North American surface finishing industry globally. NASF was created as a means to better serve the needs of the surface finishing industry by “reorganizing” and bringing together the members of the American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society (AESF), the Metal Finishing Suppliers Association (MFSA), and the National Association of Metal Finishers (NAMF).

Website: www.nasf.org

AESF Foundation
The AESF Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that focuses on technical education programs to advance the science and technology of surface finishing.

Website: www.nasf.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Education

National Metal Finishing Strategic Goals Program
The Strategic Goals Program (SGP) is a unique cooperative effort between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the metal finishing industry, local governments, environmental organizations, and others. The SGP is a voluntary program that encourages companies to go beyond environmental compliance. This is a unique site filled with useful and practical information for finishers who want to succeed both environmentally and financially.

Website: www.strategicgoals.org

The National Metal Finishing Resource Center
A huge collection of finishing information, directories, current news items and much, much more. Includes free information, but extended info is available by annual subscription.

Website: www.nmfrc.org/