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August 12, 2026 — Longer ID bowls, less circus

The inside-diameter cell picked up fixtures that hold longer pump bowls without stacking three setups and a prayer. That sounds like furniture. It is hours saved on ID coatings that used to wait behind a queue of short parts. Power customers who send bowls with a port in an inconvenient place should still send a photo down the bore; the new table is not a magic wand. It is a table that does not sag.

June 3, 2026 — Fall slots on cylinder exchange

Publication season still bunches up even when planners swear they learned last year. Extra cylinder exchange windows were opened for September and October so a press is not waiting on a grind bay that is already full of someone else’s roll. The sequence is unchanged: strip, spray, diamond grind, super finish, ship. The desk that has a hundred years in printing among its people is the same desk on Our Company. If you need a slot, do not wait until the roll is already orange with rust on the dock.

March 18, 2026 — Surveillance audit, no traveler scramble

ISO surveillance closed without a week of rewriting history on clipboards. That is the unglamorous win. FAA work on aerospace lots kept the same paperwork rhythm. If you care how that looks in practice, read Quality instead of this paragraph. The shop would rather be boring on audit week than interesting.

Older notes live in the same file on purpose: this is a shop bulletin, not a magazine. For what the company is when the news is quiet, stay on Our Company. For open bays that need people, see jobs. Process questions still start at thermal spray or the home page. A coating quote still needs a drawing; this page is only a log of shop changes.