NENASF ANNUAL HAZMAT and WASTEWATER SEMINAR 2025
The attendance was great as over thirty-five members NASF New England Chapter, along with members of the metal finishing community as a whole, attended a Seminar sponsored by the Chapter on May 7, 2025 at the Courtyard Marriott in Marlborough, Massachusetts. The event was primarily a training session enabling attendees to receive their mandatory annual RCRA HazMat. The four-hour Seminar also included speakers on wastewater effluent management and plating rectifier selection as a means of achieving plating success with minimal environmental disruption.
The instructor for the two-hour RCRA Hazmat segment of the Seminar was David Webster, Environmental Health and Safety Project Manager for HRP Associates out of their Farmington, Connecticut office. This two-hour session was a very detailed and intense training exercise with strong emphasis on possible pitfalls of incorrect hazardous waste handling and documentation, and was concluded with a written competency test prior to awarding of Certificates of Completion by HRP Associates for the RCRA Training.
Rob Sheldon of Aquasgroup in East Providence then offered a presentation about rinse water management, and how Zero Limit Discharge (ZLD) could be viewed as the future of metal finishing. He tied that into efficient equipment design, such as doing what can be simply achieved to initially minimize rinse water contamination, and the rewards of this approach in solving potential discharge challenges.
The afternoon Seminar was concluded with a presentation by Dev Massimi of American Plating Power who gave a presentation on the review process necessary when purchasing a new plating rectifier. This segment focused on factors to consider such as technologies available, degree of protection, ripple, correct sizing and control methods, to name a few. A power source that efficiently produces quality product can mean less chance for rejects. Reject rework can add additional unnecessary strain on wastewater discharge systems.
This Seminar, which was offered at no cost to the NENASF members, along with other events and educational opportunities offered by the New England Chapter, are just another reason to join and actively participate in all that local Chapter membership in the National Association for Surface Finishing has to offer. Thanks to all participants for allowing events like this to happen.
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