15. Energy Savings:  Lean, Green Pretreatment Breakthroughs for Custom Coaters
Speaker:  Ken Pelak, Broadmoor Products

This presentation looks at various new pretreatment technologies that have been recently implemented. This includes Zirconium, Vanadium, and Titanium. It also focuses on room temperature cleaning and treatments - pros and cons. The importance of pretreatment control factors - time, temp, pressure, conc.(pH and cond.), soil type and substrate condition, are also covered. Presentation ends with new technology for monitoring surface contamination levels and measuring zirconium oxide film build utilizing X-Ray Fluorescence.