EPi App has been updated for I Phone and Droid based phones included trouble shooting of plating processes

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By Eric Olander

EPi recently received approval from Apple's APP store for I Phones and Google's APP store for Droid base phones. This new update works on the larger phones Samsung Galaxy and I Phone 5. This will work for the I Pad as well.

The improvements include the following;

1) You can now receive Push Notifications from EPi about it's latest happenings and events.
2) Trouble shooting guide for electroplating solutions.
3) You can also access EPi's blog as well and You Tube channel .

We still have the Hull cell ruler and the capability of taking hull cell pictures and sending them via email with the parameters then storing the pictures.

Have a friend you want to share the trouble shooting guide line? Email template to email trouble shooting guide.

The app costs $0.99 , but now is even more valuable than before. Another EPi first as EPi was the first company to develop on App for metal finishing and plating.

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Video of Stan Olander’s model railroad layout and Illinois Railway Museum building fund update for Stan’s layout

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Stan Olander's Train LayoutBy Eric Olander

 

Dave Rickaby created a video (Click Here) during the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA) National Convention Tours in Milwaukee June 2010 this was about 4-6 weeks before my father Stan passed away in August.

In this video you will see my mother Lavon greeting the visitors asking where they are from some say Virginia and South Carolina. You will notice a long line of people waiting to get in to see the layout.  You will also hear in the background Stan's friends discussing the layout details. You will see the people's faces smiling and admiring Stan's legacy HO model railroad Cornbelt Northern.

Before my mom sold the house the railroad was cut up and shipped down to the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) in Union Illinois about 30 miles east of Rockford. The IRM is raising money to create a new building that will house Stan's layout so his love for model railroading will live on. LEARN MORE on the status of the building for Stan's layout and also for pictures of Stan's layout under construction.

Rick thank you for your video you created!

E – Kleen SR excitement is growing in Indiana this week

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By Eric Olander

My three day trip in Indiana is winding down as we approach all types of metal finishing facilities : zinc plating to precious metals. We are discovering that everyone has some type of cleaning problem. Finishers are discussing difficult to clean metal working fluids and oils, heat treated steels with scale, buffing compounds, and acids that generate smut during the pickling process. One finisher is using potassium cyanide and caustic for his cleaning because of his cleaning problems. It will be interesting to see if E Kleen SR could replace a cyanide base cleaner. That is the ultimate challenge replacing cyanide. We have eliminating cyanide before in copper and silver plating now we will try to develop a cyanide free cleaner.

Enjoying meeting new metal finishers helping them solve their immediate cleaning problems by using E Kleen SR.

Meet Mariel Booth model of the E-Kleen SR ad at EPi’s booth 419 during Sur/Fin 2013 in Chicago, IL

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By Eric Olander

EPi recently invited Mariel Booth to EPi's booth #419 at Sur/Fin 2013 trade show in Rosemont, IL on June 11th, 2013. Mariel has graciously accepted EPI's invitation.  EPi looks forward to EPi customers  . After meeting Mariel discuss with your EPI representative  about E-Kleen SR new revolutionary cleaning technology for soak cleaning , electrocleaning, and acid pickles. E-Kleen SR removes carbon smut from steel and difficult to clean metal working fluids.

Mariel Booth is known for her  State Farm commercial she starred in watch the video click here .

February MBI is relatively unchanged

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By Eric Olander

The Metalworking Business Index for February was 49.6 according to Steve Kline Jr. Market Analyst of Modern Machine Shop magazine in the March issue. Specifically the backlogs and exports are still contracting and  are the leading cause of the resulting index. on the positive side new orders and production did grow in February.

 

The two areas that still experiencing growth are the non auto forming and fabricating and the pumps. valves and plumbing industries.

Eric Olander speaks at Masters Association of Metal Finishers (MAMF) last Thursday March 21st,2012

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By Eric Olander

I was excited to talk to such a distinguished crowd of many successful metal finishers last Thursday March 21st, 2013 in New Brunswick,NJ . After trying to use my iPad and portable projector we eventually got the equipment to work. My presentation was about E-Kleen SR product line that discussed the potential E-Kleen SR solutions;

1) As additive to you soak cleaner, electrocleaner, and acid pickle

2)E-Kleen SR soak cleaners

3)E-Kleen SR electroclean additives

4)E-Kleen SR-A acid pickle additives

A lively discussion afterwards brought up the following questions:

1) will it work on stainless steel smut

2)copper alloys including beryllium and tellurium

3)zinc die casts

Now the EPi lab will research the effects of E-Kleen SR on those various metals and will develop more products to meet customers demand.

I also travelled my distributor Gilbert and Jones in Connecticut and EPIC Industrial in Philadelphia,PA , New Jersey, and Brooklyn,NY . I made presentations using the new E-Kleen SR video and everyone one we talked to discussed the hard to clean parts that the E-Kleen SR can clean. We are excited about the opportunity to help solve the customers problems and this reminds me of when we first came out with E-Brite 30/30 alkaline non cyanide copper process and all the baths that went in every week!

 

January 2013 Metal Working Business Overall Index Flattens

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By Eric Olander

The overall MBI index for January 2013 resulted in an almost very little change, but on an individual basis of the subindices there is good news. New orders were up significantly 41.9 to 52.6 and the resulting Production rose from 42.3 to 50.4. It has been since last summer that these two indices have grown. The backlog and exports both contracted again.

The metal working industry is still contracting the aerospace,automotive,construction machinery,electronics,forming and fabricating, and pump,valves and plumbing products are still growing. Maybe this is because of the outsourcing that has happened the last 5- 10 years? Those industries growing  being supported by overseas suppliers. Imagine how many more Americans would be working today with good paying jobs from the industries that support those growing industries. Today's businesses have to fight numerous government regulations, with health care being the latest with ACA. All businesses have to comply with  OSHA and EPA rulings that over seas suppliers don't. The final two high costs for businesses today is insurance and litigation costs.

Steve Kline Jr. Market analyst from Modern Machine Shop MMS published these facts in the March 2013 issue and on-line at mmsonline.com . Thank you Steve for sharing your resourceful and timely information.

EPi’s E-Commerce site offers shipping discounts and mobile web site for EPi e-commerce orders!

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by Eric Olander

The last two months EPi has been offering shipping discounts on orders placed on EPi's e-commerce site saving our new and existing customers money. For the month of March the shipping discount will be;

$5.00 off on shipping charges on purchase  of $50-100 order

$10.00 off on shipping charges on purchase of $101-249 order

$15.00 off on shipping charge on purchase of $250 or more

EPi's e-commerce site does not offer all of EPi products on the EPi main website.  The EPi products are; Black Oxide,Electroplating ( copper, silver and  electroless nickel), antiquing/oxidizing, Gel products for blackening and antiquing, rust preventives, trivalent chromates clear and yellow,and  metal cleaners for all metal substrates.

EPi's e-commerce mobile website works great on your iPhone, iPad, Windows, Blackberry, and Android phone as EPi has created a mobile e-commerce site for easier navigation and also for people with large thumbs like me! See the example below on my iPhone.

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E-Brite Ultra CU alkaline non cyanide copper plating process assists American Standard in achieving its environmental goal of no toxic cyanide in its facility

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By Eric Olander 

This article states it all with E-Brite Ultra CU assisting American Standard achieve its dream! The Ultra CU is easy  to use resulting in excellent adhesion and cost-effective as compared to expensive cyanide. No more carbonates to get rid of. Better throwing power than cyanide copper . EPi has been leading the way in alkaline no cyanide copper for 20 years now!

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