Loving metal finishing, and believing in sharing knowledge, Ted Mooney established the "Finishing Technology Hotline" public forum on an electronic bulletin board system (BBS) back in 1989 when he saw the rapidly developing ability to connect personal computers to the outside world. Elsevier published these forum discussions as the internationally popular "Heard on the Hotline" column in Metal Finishing magazine for many years.

So when the internet caught fire in 1995, we had a trove of fascinating content already available, plus 6-years experience, and launched finishing.com, "The Home Page of the Finishing Industry®". Over the years, we've posted a quarter million problems & solutions, attracted tens of thousands of authoritative answers from the luminaries of the industry (many sadly have passed), were honored with the AESF's Industrial Achievement Award, and made a successful business of it.

In 2013, after 24 years on line, Ted semi-retired and runs the website from home as a hobby. Those decades of authoritative content are still here, and continue to draw thousands of daily visitors looking for finishing answers, and products & services. With no employees or rent anymore, expenses are reduced to almost nothing and we offer this traffic & exposure for just enough to support the hobby :-)

Way more traffic than any developer or SEO resource can bring at a fraction of what they need to charge. Find out why we have customers who've advertised here for decades :-)


Ted Mooney