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Panakin Patel

Aug 19, 2026

9:33
In your experience, Pinocchio, with all the anodizers seen U.S., internationally, what percentage of them do you think do an acceptable job of analyzing their tanks? And what percentage of them, if you could break it down to, you know, top tier, average, below average, how do you think that spreads out across the customers you've seen?
9:56
For the customers we've seen, I would say 50% at least do it well.
10:00
They do it well.
10:02
Even some of the shops that don't have chemists, they train operators or whatever, they do a pretty good job of it.
10:08
So I think a very high percentage of people do that.
10:12
What happens is, and this is an important thing, people always want to know, how many times do I need to do this in a week? And so that's an area where companies need to really sit down and think about it because in anodizing, unlike plating, you don't turn over the chemicals as rapidly as you would in a plating shop, for instance.
10:30
So there's a little bit of slack there, but you don't want to take, you don't want to completely ignore that too and just be very negligent about it.
14:51
Ipanakin, do you see what the better shops, and we're not naming any names, what the better shops use as far as lab equipment versus some of the smaller job shops? Are you going to talk about what makes up a good analytical group?

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